Health

Thirty per cent of women who gave birth in 2022 had previously experienced at least one miscarriage, and 10 per cent had experienced two or more.

Central venous catheters are a cornerstone of neonatal intensive care. Clinicians thread these lines into the smallest patients imaginable every day, delivering fluids, nutrition and medication directly into the bloodstream.

Testing at CSIRO's Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness confirmed H5 bird flu in a silver gull found at Robe in South Australia on 1 August 2026, the first detection in that species in Australia. The result pushed the national tally of confirmed or presumed positive detections to 53.

The line of defence has just moved. Authorities have confirmed H5 bird flu is passing from bird to bird inside Australia for the first time, which turns the job from keeping the virus out of the country to keeping it away from poultry sheds and egg farms.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has recorded 2,073 confirmed Ebola cases and 796 deaths as of 14 July 2026, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

Eli Lilly and Company, founded in Indianapolis in 1876 and now operating across more than 125 countries, crossed the US$1 trillion market capitalisation threshold on the momentum of two injectable drugs that have reshaped the global conversation about obesity and metabolic disease.

Australia lost its status as the last continent with wildlife free of H5N1 avian influenza on 20 June 2026, when CSIRO confirmed the virus in a brown skua near Esperance, Western Australia.

The NHS-Galleri trial, which enrolled more than 140,000 volunteers to test a blood test capable of detecting over 50 types of cancer before symptoms appear, is expected to report final results in 2026.