Steven Schubert

About 4,000 kids from remote Australia rely on boarding schools to finish their education, but even at more affordable schools, fees are climbing. The federal government has offered a new scholarship to help, but only for a fraction of students from remote parts of the country.

Researchers say pollen is becoming more potent, and seasons longer, as the climate changes. Hay fever sufferers, brace yourselves. 

A proposal to tighten Medicare rules around telehealth appointments for specialist doctors is "discriminatory" according to people who use the service, while doctors warn it could "penalise patients".

Only one in five general surgeons in Australia is a woman but that number falls to just 16 per cent outside the big cities, according to new research. 

With ticks thriving after La Niña, more people are expected to be bitten by the parasites, and that could lead to an increase in cases of a potentially life-threatening meat allergy.

Elizabeth Russell was a teenager when she felt an unusual, severe pain. It would take 15 years before she knew what it was after being repeatedly dismissed by healthcare workers.

Non-Indigenous Australians are 18 per cent more likely to die due to extreme heat compared to Indigenous Australians, a study has found. The remedy is common sense, according to a Warumungu elder.

In remote Australia, supply chains can stretch for thousands of kilometres, which means the cost of freighting fresh food is stretching budgets to breaking point.

People with no formal training are scanning hearts in remote areas using software that guides them through the potentially life-saving procedure. But can they produce the same results as a specialist? 

A new study has found that medical students are seven times more likely to work in regional Australia if some of their training is done outside the big cities. 

Three regional Australians tell the ABC's regional health investigation their experience with private health insurance leaves them questioning whether it is worth the cost. 

Regional Australia has been suffering from health worker shortages for years. The ABC wants to hear your story about when you were unable to get the medical help you needed — or if you're still waiting. 

It will be hard for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's Alice Springs visit to not look hurried and reactive, because it is, writes Alice Springs-based reporter Steven Schubert.

New rules allowing overseas-trained doctors to now work in some outer suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney, and in major regional cities, mean even fewer GPs are willing to work in the bush.

Around 8,000 women need to have a breast removed every year, but in rural and regional Australia some women must wait years for surgery if they're lucky enough to get it at all. Steven Schubert reports.

Rebecca Smyth is among thousands of women in regional Australia forced to wait years longer than women in cities for breast reconstructions after mastectomies. Doctors and patients say the 'horrific' situation is unacceptable.

Sam Gregory-Jones was the only registered nurse in her small country hospital when her son needed urgent treatment. But like so many other rural health centres, it didn't have the right dressings for his wounds. 

More than 600,000 Australians are regularly forced to drink unsafe or poor quality water, according to the peak body for water suppliers and academics. 

The cost of a short-term locum doctor contract jumps 50 per cent in a year as GP clinics across the country struggle to find staff.

More than half of people suffering chronic pain in regional Australia are not getting the right medical help to deal with it due to where they live, a new survey reveals.

Máire Kildare tried twice to see a doctor via a video call from her home but the connection kept dropping out. Now people like her could receive less money back from Medicare to see a doctor. 

The Northern Rivers and south-east Queensland are expected avoid the heaviest falls, but residents in other areas are being urged to prepare as the weather system bears down from the north.

Top End health authorities are feeling the strain as they scramble to deal with the worst flu outbreak in years.

When Hunter Murray drove 8,000km in his new electric car in a week, he did it to prove a point: The technology can work even for people living in the most remote parts of Australia

New data shows one in five aged care residents are being given antipsychotic medication, and elderly residents are more likely to be given the drugs if they live in rural areas.