Health

Authorities classified the death as pneumonia of unknown origin. Russia's health watchdog says no contacts have shown symptoms.

Up to 10,000 Victorian public hospital doctors will stop work from 1.30 pm to 5.30 pm on Thursday 1 October, rallying at Parliament House over 84-hour rosters and 14 months of bargaining with no written government offer. Emergency and intensive care units are exempt from the stoppage.

Dutch eight-month-olds average nearly 14 hours of daily rest, and Nigerian nursing mothers use cloth wrappers to keep infants in constant physical contact throughout the day.

Health authorities estimate 9,100 people carry the virus across the archipelago, with 61 per cent unaware of their status and transmission increasingly linked to injecting drug use.

Melbourne-based Cartherics executed a research collaboration and option agreement with the Zucker Institute, the commercialisation entity for the Medical University of South Carolina, on 1 September 2026.

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.