A prized ingredient in China’s $60 billion traditional medicine industry, gallstones have become the must-have item among underground traders and slaughterhouse workers in Brazil and Australia who pilfer the stones while on the job.
The debate over water fluoridation has again come to the surface. But who should have the final say over what’s best for our children?
A new study has highlighted the dangers of fat buried deep within our muscles. This exercise plan will help to reduce intermuscular fat and build power.
In the years around menopause women will experience the most rapid natural loss of bone mass in their lives. It makes good bone health essential, and there are things you can do.
There are more than 400 medicine shortages, and the country’s leading medical group blames it on ‘ad hoc’ governmental solutions.
Hospitals across NSW are now stripped of scores of psychiatrists as mass resignations take effect and the state government moves to active crisis footing on mental health.
Public health systems have become a heartless, bureaucratic, mechanistic force that damages doctors and patients in its wake, a tragic phenomenon writ large in the NSW psychiatry dispute.
Try tempeh for a vegetarian option, or substitute chicken if you prefer, for this flavoursome fusion.
Many acne sufferers spend thousands of dollars on treatments before they arrive at a dermatologist’s office. So what can you expect from a skin specialist?
Psychiatrists serve patients in public hospitals across the gamut of conditions from surgery to transplants to palliative care – all are about to be hit by the NSW mental health system crisis.
Will has one of the rarest forms of childhood epilepsy, caught with a mixture of luck and ‘parental instinct’. It will take a trip to the Moon and Back to help him.
In Denmark, where the average person consumes about 93kg of meat a year, convincing people to eat less meat is no mean feat. This is how the government has taken action.
The immunity protection program for pregnant women will start from February 3 and is aimed at protecting newborns from the life-threatening virus until they are six months old.
From too much exercise to not enough vitamin D, the experts tell us why we’re feeling sluggish, and how to fix it.
Untreatable side-effects of smoking are on the agenda of Australian researchers who uncovered the body’s internal reaction to 30,000 chemicals the immune system combats in cigarettes.
Nurse-led cosmetic businesses in Queensland are trying to understand if their entire business model is illegal.
Diagnosed with a life limiting illness at five months, doctors told Jess Schonberger’s parents their first-born would not see her third birthday. What happened next has astounded everyone.
The nation’s most vulnerable mental health patients demand psychiatrists be looked after as a charity boss urges system change.
Anti-ageing scientists and entrepreneurs hope the second Trump administration will make it easier to develop treatments to expand a once-fringe industry now edging into the mainstream.
When Bev Donovan lost her mother she fell into a depressive spiral that saw her reach a weight of 185kg and risk heart failure. Her journey home brought her back to good health.
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