More than half of the pregnant teenagers in Tasmania continue to smoke, despite a wave of information campaigns aimed at stopping the practice.

Flinders University in Adelaide has closed one of its research facilities after it found that a researcher had cross-bred genetically-modified mice.

The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) says it is worried the Federal Government will use Australia's slowing economy as an excuse to delay a national paid maternity leave scheme.

The owners of Coogee Bay Hotel have acknowledged the family which claimed it was served ice-cream with faeces in it, played no part in the contamination.

The Northern Territory Government has reported an outbreak of a potentially deadly disease in the Borroloola community, about 850 kilometres south-east of Darwin.

Doctors are using traditional Indigenous art to teach Aboriginals in the Northern Territory about good health.

A scientist leading research into the deadly Hendra virus says researchers are still trying to understand the disease and develop a vaccine.

The Launceston General Hospital hopes to free up beds next winter by sharing resources with regional hospitals.

A Japanese government report says that the number of crimes committed by the elderly has doubled in the past five years.

New research shows that women who smoke during pregnancy were nearly 2.5 times more likely to have babies with oral clefts.

A new study out of Denmark suggests that women who use nicotine patches or gum during pregnancy do not increase the risk of stillbirth and that nicotine replacement therapy could be considered a "possible harm-reduction strategy."

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