Health

WEHI has received a $7 million grant from the Australian Government's Medical Research Future Fund to expand the National Drug Discovery Centre in Melbourne. WEHI is co-investing $3.6 million, taking the total program to $10.6 million.

Australia's H5 bird flu outbreak has been climbing for months, logged mostly as mortalities in seabirds and shorebirds. On 23 August 2026, the category changed.

Health and Disability Minister Mark Butler has signalled that a parliamentary deal with the Coalition on the most significant overhaul of the National Disability Insurance Scheme since its founding is within reach.

Google is shipping a wearable feature that attempts to track insulin resistance without a needle, a lab requisition or a finger-prick device.

Hunter Biden put his father's condition into words on BBC Newsnight this week that no White House statement would ever use. "The cancer has spread. It's metastasized into his bones and further.

Flooding in early 2026 affected an estimated 723,000 people across southern and central Mozambique, killed more than 146 and submerged 313,051 hectares of cropland. With about 82 per cent of the UN response plan still unfunded, the lean season is the next test.

The world has licensed Ebola vaccines. None of them work against the strain currently killing people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Eli Lilly confirmed on 3 August 2026 it will open a formal expanded access pathway for retatrutide, its investigational triple-agonist obesity drug.