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Canberra has a great love-affair with cycling, lycra and electric scooters but, unsurprisingly, the sport responsible for the most hospitalisations in Australia in 2021-22 involved wheels. Cycling caused about 8,600 reported injury hospitalisations...

For the first time in more than 50 years, an infectious disease was in the top five leading causes of death in Australia in 2022, according to a new report by the...

The number of hospitalisations caused by animals has increased over the last decade, according to an AIHW report published today.

Less than 10 per cent of people in Australia smoke daily, while the use of e-cigarettes tripled between 2019 and 2022–2023

The ACT was the only jurisdiction in Australia where rates of golden staph in public hospitals exceeded the national benchmark in 2021–22.

Cancer-related death rates among adolescents and young adults more than halved from 62 to 29 deaths per million population over the past few decades, according to a new report from the Australian...

The ACT has the longest emergency department wait times once more, but it also had its second highest year of elective surgeries.

COVID-19 restrictions led to many drug and alcohol treatment services expanding access to online services and telehealth appointments.

More than 1.3 million Australians were diagnosed with diabetes between 2000 and 2020, according to a new report from the AIHW

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s (AIHW) two-yearly health report card, Australia’s health 2022, was released today.