PARENTS will face tough new hurdles if they want to enroll unvaccinated children at school, under a crackdown being planned by Health Minister Tanya Plibersek…

The justice system is unprepared to deal with aggressive behaviour by sufferers, writes Paul Bibby…

A decision on whether to give people conceived from sperm donors clues about their genetic origin on a separate page of their birth certificate has been shelved by the NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell. Donor-conception support groups said people had a …..

There have been a number of recent cases where parents have requested abortions on gender grounds. Obstetricians want ban on parents knowing child’s sex. Senate inquiry has been set-up to probe gender-based abortions…

A 17-year-old Jehovah’s Witness suffering from a lethal form of blood cancer and refusing treatment threatened to rip the IV needle out of his arm if doctors attempted a blood transfusion…

The organisation does not present a balanced case for vaccination and has no medical evidence to back its anti-vaccination stance…

A WOMAN cannot fulfil her late partner’s final wish and have their child by IVF because the Family Court lacks jurisdiction over his frozen sperm…

CATHOLIC hospitals fear patients will use new anti-discrimination laws to demand abortions, vasectomies and IVF treatments now banned for religious reasons…

A NSW Supreme Court judge has refused a parental request for a terminally ill baby to be placed on a mechanical ventilator, in a case he described as “one of the saddest” imaginable…

A widow has been allowed to extract her dead husband’s sperm a day after he took his own life, following an urgent West Australian court hearing…