Southern Agcare is a not-for-profit community organisation providing free, confidential psychological support services for farmers in the Great Southern region....

Insufficient healthcare services in remote and regional Australia is hardly a new problem. Sparsely populated regional areas in Australia have continually struggled to attract and retain sufficient GPs for their local communities....

On Tuesday night a group of around 40 Denmark residents gathered at the local RSL hall for a candlelight vigil to rally for greater awareness of mental health issues in this country, and to show support for members of their own community directly affected by the issue. ...

Barbara Gore is an emergency department nurse at Warren District hospital in Manjimup, and since witnessing the trauma injuries of a young person who she initially mistook for her son in the emergency department, she has made it her mission to reduce the trauma caused by risk taking behaviour in ...

Isolation is a key problem facing young people in regional areas, but the internet and social media networks are bridging the divide and improving young people's access to mental health services in remote areas....

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 ...