Before their first date, biohacker Kayla Barnes asked her future husband for his gut, toxin and nutrient levels. He passed. They’re part of a wellbeing-fixated generation who are willing to do whatever it takes to live beyond 100.
No gym membership, no equipment at home, no worries. Just five minutes of exercise a day can improve your physical and mental health, a new study shows. We step you through the exercises you’ll need.
Dentists appeal for gradual reform away from Medicare as Labor manoeuvres towards a soft stance on universal dental care access and the Greens turn up the pressure.
While both major parties have pledged billions more in funding for Medicare, oral care may again be overlooked. Here are some of the reasons to count teeth in.
The numbers don’t lie when it comes to children living at home well into their 20s. But how should we navigate a household of parents and children when everyone’s an adult?
The AMA has launched a website tracking and rating real-time hospital wait times, saying the findings are grim and show patients are languishing as they wait for care
Victorian hospitals are rallying behind a new diagnostic study that looks to take antibiotic allergy testing from surgical tables to smartphones.
The Heart Foundation says Australia can no longer overlook the role of obesity in cardiovascular disease and wants to form a national taskforce to improve patient outcomes and consider if GLP-1 drugs could help.
The earlier an autistic child is diagnosed, the better their long-term outcomes. So why are initial diagnoses taking longer and longer?
Thousands of burnt-out NSW doctors say they will strike for three days next week in a move that will significantly impact non-urgent care and defy a court order.
The risk of autism develops even before we are born. But the origins of the disorder are still not well understood.
It could be when you reach pension age but the true point of ascending into old fogeydom is the moment someone offers you their seat on the bus. So when do you decide to get off?
I hadn’t had my hearing checked in 20 years, so was keen to give Apple’s new at-home test a go. The results were surprising. Here is what I found and what audiologists say.
They’re vital to our nation building, but statistics show construction workers are at an elevated risk of mental harm. These people are trying to change that.
You may know about the 5-2, but what about 10-20-30? The latest fitness trends are easy-to-remember concepts, but do they really work?
For heart surgery patients, the risk doesn’t end after going under the knife, with a new drug trial aiming to reduce cognitive problems and kidney injuries caused by heart-lung machines.
Almost all hospital emergency department staff have experienced violence at the hands of alcohol-affected patients, a survey by Monash University finds.
A co-founder of the famed Cornersmith food community shows you how to make the most of fruit and vegetables using traditional skills with no waste. And you get yummy jars of pickles.
A nutrition researcher goes into your kitchen to find the ingredients that may help to reduce excessive inflammation in your body.
I’m one of the millions of people trying to keep the weight off without taking expensive drugs like Mounjaro for life. It wasn’t easy, but I found ways.
Obesity is so common that tens of thousands of Australians every year will choose between surgery or weight-loss drugs in the hope of a long-term solution. Here’s what a doctor says you should know.
After producing a guide to women’s health for the men in their lives, our expert GP columnist offers a baseline look at male health for mothers, wives, sisters and female friends.
‘It just started feeling really, really, unsafe’: calls for nationally recognised minimum training standards to be applied to those practising cosmetic injectables.
Anthony Albanese kickstarted the election campaign lauding our public hospitals for treating billionaires like Kerry Packer the same as everyone else, including himself. We run the ruler over his claim.
Business executive Michelle Japp was excited about her pregnancy as were her colleagues, and a hospital check-up was so routine that she was dressed for work. Then her world unravelled.
For a long time after her daughter died, Karol Barac never laughed. Then she met Karen Shuster.
It’s more than a decade since the Hollywood star blamed oral sex for his illness. Here’s how the human papillomavirus became a male problem.
In the age of identity politics we think labels clarify, but too often they freeze us. The truth? We are all in flux all the time.
Mandatory registration of disability service providers sounds simple, until you factor in the effect on free choice, costs and red tape.
Australia has been slower to take up AI tools in healthcare. But with an ageing population and a health workforce under pressure, doctors are seeing the benefits of artificial intelligence.
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