With much of the Red Centre still looking very green because of good Winter rainfall, this Spring is set to be a happy time for pastoralists, and for the environment....

The Northern Territory Government has set its sights on Alice Springs pubs which open at 10am until takeaway sales start....

A report has recommended the NT Medical Board verify qualifications after a Singaporean man was jailed for using fake credentials to work as a doctor in Alice Springs....

There are calls for changes to Australian safety standards after a bus driver died by strangulation when his bus door shut on him....

Chief Minister Paul Henderson has come under fire in Parliament over claims that publicans are selling liquor to problematic drinkers in Alice Springs....

The story of the high stakes battle that will decide who owns your body and the key biological building blocks that make you the person that you are. ...

This is an often under-diagnosed and under-treated condition with a high mortality rate. If the disease is not treated it gets progressively worse and this is irreversible....

Researchers have found that prostate cancer cells have receptors for insulin and insulin like growth factors. High insulin level are related to obesity....

There have been concerns that responses to last year's flu pandemic were exaggerated. Norman Swan talks to a researcher who uses mathematic models to predict the way influenza epidemics might proceed....

With the Australian political parties being urged to commit to long-term aged care reform, Encounter this week goes behind the politicking, and into the Mater Aged Care Home at Forbes in western NSW. Nursing homes are a hidden world, veiled by our fear of death and ageing. But closer inspection ...