Doctors who offer alternative therapies would be warned against initiating treatment without a “reasonable expectation” of clinical benefit, under new guidelines proposed by the Medical Board of

A banned Darwin doctor who had a sexual relationship with a patient and conducted inadequate skin cancer checks has failed in his bid to be allowed to practise again.

Dr Wijeneka Liyanage, also known

A 55-year-old financial adviser with a 30-year history of bipolar disorder attended his GP intermittently. He was being treated with lithium for mood stabilisation and, in the proceeding years, had

Freddie Clarence Williams was found unconscious from a drug overdose and was taken to a hospital in New York City, US, last July. He was eventually declared brain-dead.

His sister Shirell Powell had

A phony US pharmacist dispensed nearly 750,000 scripts over 10 years before being caught out.

Kim Thien Le, who worked as a pharmacist and pharmacy manager, used the licence of two pharmacists with

A bereavement service with doctors from the patient's medical team and from the treating institution can reduce complaints and litigation, as well as support families, according to a pilot UK study.

If you relied on the MBS, you could be forgiven for thinking that public hospitals were the seat of organised crime.

I mean, we all know the states receive funding from the Federal Government to run

A Brisbane GP has been convicted of sexually assaulting a patient who then set up her own sting to prove her claims.

Dr Samitha Vernon Sudusinghe has been found guilty by a Brisbane District Court

A Melbourne pharmacist has taken on the federal Minister for Health and won in a court battle over a pharmacy approval granted to a rival.

Dominic Stambe, who owns two pharmacies, sought a judicial

A GP with “deficient” records has been banned from billing Level B attendances through Medicare and ordered to repay $650,000, after the watchdog found they couldn’t prove they had been meeting the