Hot barre and punk rope: these are the weirdest fitness trends of 2015

Aerial yoga, treadmill classes and skipping with attidude … what are set to be the strangest ways of getting fit in 2015?

We don’t know why a mum abandoned her newborn baby. But we do know that the system fails mothers

Amy Gray: As crimes go, abandoning a newborn in a drain is awful. Cases like this are exceedingly rare, but our society’s neglect of mothers makes them possible

Low postpartum oxytocin levels linked to poor mother-daughter bond

Australian study finds women with troubled relationship with their mother may struggle to bond with their own children

Medibank chief denies saying private patients should get priority

George Savvides rejects statement by AMA president Brian Owler and says his comments were taken out of context

Sudden cardiac arrest: up to five Australians under 35 die each week

In half cases first sign of something wrong ‘is when they die suddenly’, says cardiologist after death of 27-year-old at City2Surf

AMA warns against push by private health insurers into ‘US-style care’

Brian Owler, Australian Medical Association president, fears medical profession at risk of being undermined

Decriminalise sex work to help control Aids pandemic, scientists demand

Prostitutes are subject to repression, violence and abuse – even at the hands of law enforcement, research shows

Infant hospital visits down as fewer women smoke while pregnant

Australian medical study finds a 10.5% drop in the number of infants under a year old being re-admitted to hospital

Pregnant women using alternative therapies urged to tell their doctors

Natural ‘not always safe’, warn experts, as study shows 90% of pregnant Australian women use complementary treatments

Patients can hurt doctors, too

Ranjana Srivastava: Doctors nearly always internalise insults that patients fling at them. This can have serious consequences to the quality of the healthcare they're able to provide