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The mother of one of 11 children who received an overdose of chemotherapy at Adelaide's Women's and Children's hospital says she is satisfied with the way the problem has been dealt with.

The Queensland Opposition claims an ambulance service bungle last month may have cost a north Queensland man his life.

More than 40 drink drivers fronted court in Darwin today, with thousands of dollars in fines issued and a number of licences disqualified.

Something as deceptively simple as weatherproofing American homes could save millions of puonds of CO2 emissions a year.

Depressed people have a higher risk of heart disease, but until now, doctors didn't know exactly why.

Nurses at Wangaratta hospital are threatening to strike and cancel elective surgery over the dismissal of the director of nursing.

Queensland health Minister Stephen Robertson says the warning against using red pens in classrooms came from teachers, not mental health experts.

Some Victorian Liberal MPs are urging the State government to rewrite its contentious in vitro fertilisation (IVF) bill.

Several consumer groups criticize the early bid by America's health Insurance Plans, a trade group that fought an overhaul in the 1990s, to take an active role in Obama's effort to revamp the system. Sharpening the emerging debate over how to reshape the country's healthcare system, the major group representing insurers unveiled a proposal Wednesday for covering all Americans in a more centralized insurance market.

This soup is a meal in a bowl with a generous egg yolk enrichment and lots of iron-rich spinach.