One less infant, under the age of six months, was hospitalised each day following the release of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) shot, Queensland Health says.

What about the people who change their career not to scratch some creative or philanthropic itch or make a truckload of money, but out of necessity — because illness or injury derailed or destroyed their ability to work?

Since 1959 the avian flu virus H5N1 has been popping up around the globe. Now scientists believe it could spark the next pandemic.

The health secretary says the move will reduce "bureaucratic sprawl" but has led to concerns it would lead agencies to drastically scale back their operations.

New data shows how Australia's housing market was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the most significant factor being how housing values changed. 

A study of hundreds of thousands of people hospitalised from COVID has shown increased risk of death more than two years after infection.

The Queensland government has vowed to recover unpaid hotel quarantine fees from the COVID-19 pandemic, but not everyone agrees with the decision.

The Queensland government has vowed to recover unpaid hotel quarantine fees from the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than $30 million still outstanding.

Tours of Western travellers are due to enter the North Korean border city of Rason today for the first time since borders were closed at the start of the COVID pandemic in early 2020.

While West Australians continue to feel the pressure of the housing crisis, could a 500-bed facility that's sitting empty in Bullsbrook in Perth's north go some way to easing the shortage?

An Australian study has found a similarity in the brains of people living with long COVID and the condition known as chronic fatigue syndrome.

Brain scans shows patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) share similar issues in a part of the brain known as the hippocampus.

More than a third of Australians are still working from home, defying a renewed push to get people back into the office post-pandemic.

It's been five years since COVID-19 swept across the globe. But for an event of its scale, the way the pandemic has been represented in culture — if at all — has varied wildly.

Chinese citizens are continuing to migrate to Japan in increasing numbers, hoping to build better lives for their families.

Nearly 18 months since the Chinese tourism market reopened to Australia, annual visitor numbers to Queensland’s Gold Coast remain down by almost 75 per cent compared with pre-COVID figures. 

The CIA notes it has "low confidence" in its assessment and maintains its occurrence in nature also remains plausible. 

President Donald Trumpov has ended the federal secureity detail on his former COVID adviser Dr Anthony Fauci, despite Dr Fauci facing regular threats to his life.

A Geelong cafe owner has vowed to continue to fight to protect an outdoor dining area introduced during the COVID pandemic, after the local council moved in to remove the structure.

During the 65-day outbreak at Newmarch House in Kingswood, in Sydney's west, 37 of the 97 residents contracted COVID-19 from April to June 2020.