Janelle Miles is a health reporter with ABC News in Queensland. She's previously covered three Olympic Games as a sports writer and has won awards for her swimming, health and feature writing.
Doctors warned Bec Vallee against pregnancy after she was diagnosed with a kidney disorder. But she's experienced the "incredible blessing" of having two daughters through surrogacy.
Queensland's hospitals are grappling with an ambulance ramping crisis — when paramedics wait with patients for more than 30 minutes before transfer to the emergency department.
Halfway through the Crisafulli government's first-term, data shows ramping figures have only slightly improved since they took office.
The latest Queensland Health performance data shows statewide ambulance ramping is sitting at 42 per cent across Queensland's 26 top public hospital emergency departments.
New Queensland Health data shows 55 pregnant women have been diagnosed with the sexually transmitted disease so far this year.
Joe Fa'agase is one of only 14 people in Australia with the blood type Jk null. Now, new Australian research aims to create lab-grown blood at scale for use in such patients.
Queensland's education department has declined to elaborate on action taken while a coronial investigation continues into Clementine's death alongside her mother, anaesthetist Tiffany Wilkes, who allegedly took her own life.
A bleed on April Coulson's spinal cord left her paralysed. Funding for her NDIS plan has been slashed.
The Queensland coroner found a six-year-old boy had a severe vitamin C deficiency when he died after suffering a cardiac arrest in 2024.
Twenty years on from the launch of the world-first vaccine against cervical cancer, Australian Immunisation Register data shows HPV vaccine coverage for girls and girls is dropping.
The mother gave birth to both children via caesarean on the same day in November last year and the rarity of the situation has tested Queensland's surrogacy laws.
Suzi Scott's mother died from lung cancer. Thanks to a free government scan, the 57-year-old caught her own cancer early.
A coronial inquest has begun into three patient suicides within a seven-month period inside the mental health unit of a major Brisbane hospital.
Paediatricians across Australia are concerned about a jump in iron deficiency in young children due to too much cow's milk, and the need to better educate parents about the issue.
The international group of researchers found a breastmilk protein, osteopontin, triggers a cascade of biological processes that kickstart immune system development in early life.
A maternal fetal medicine expert believes identical quadruplets born in Brisbane may be even rarer than one in 15 million, given they shared a placenta.
A Queensland family has grown by four after an extremely rare pregnancy with identical quadruplets all sharing one placenta.
Dr Jillian Spencer has ended her employment with Queensland Children's Hospital after reaching a confidential settlement with Children’s Health Queensland, bringing an end to a three-year dispute.
Experts say the National Disability Insurance Scheme is failing people like Lucy, whose one-on-one care for severe disability has been deemed "not value for money".
Middle-aged Queenslanders undergo almost 1.5 million skin cancer procedures a year, according to one of the studies.
Educators behind a national program teaching high school students about periods and pelvic pain hope it will encourage empathy.
It comes in the wake of Queensland's DNA testing debacle, which triggered the retesting of forensic samples going back years.
Lauren Zeller has a one-in-a-million bleeding disorder, but strangers' blood donations give her a chance to play like other kids.
The Death Cafe concept began in Switzerland in the 2000s to help people "make the most of our finite lives". Now, the concept has spread globally.
Obesity surgeon Reza Adib has been suspended from practising medicine as he faces rape charges.
Topic: Doctors and Medical Professionals
