Proposed changes to the Children and Community Services Act 2005 which will affect body piercing practices for under 18s have been labelled as “draconian”.
Piercers face painful penalties
Infant circumcision linked to lower HIV transmission rate
Infant male circumcision should be encouraged to reduce HIV transmissions in Australia, according to a high- profile public health expert.
Fresh start for addicts
You rarely get to meet a person like Dr George O’Neil: A manufacturer, obstetrician, gynaecologist and inventor of a controversial opiate blocker which prevents certain narcotics from binding with certain brain receptors.
Foreign doctors blocked
Greater Bunbury and other parts of the South-West have been taken off the Australian Government’s District of Workforce Shortage list without warning in spite of a ‘doctor shortage’.
Extra working hours leads to extra weight
More working hours may be contributing to more than half of Australia’s population being overweight, according to health experts.
Cricket fans on beer rations
Cricket fans at the WACA will face new restrictions on alcohol service this summer but a health professional says the measures do not go far enough.
Bloody battle for donation rights
In a Launceston clinic in 2004, a Red Cross nurse told Michael Cain that he could not donate blood.