Health/Science

BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH TAKING hormone-blocking pills for a few months before breast cancer surgery can shrink tumours and allow many women to have just the lump removed instead of the whole breast, a new […] […]

ALTHOUGH most doctors suggest that we maintain a diet inclusive of meat protein like fish and chicken, some gynaecologists advise women to refrain from eating too many non-organic meat products, which could possibly lead to […] […]

By Olivia Grange BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH OCTOBER is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which gives us the opportunity to raise awareness of this deadly disease, and to support those who have been diagnosed or affected. […] […]

COUPLES undergoing IVF treatment stand to benefit from a new screening technique that films the first 48 hours of an embryo’s development and pinpoints which embryos will continue to develop healthily. Scientists from Stanford University, […] […]

PEOPLE who spend long hours with a laptop computer sitting on their lap have been warned they could suffer “toasted skin syndrome”. The unusual-looking mottled skin condition can result from long-term heat exposure, according to medical […] […]

A leading fertility expert is urging couples to start a family at a younger age amid fears of a growing over-reliance on science and technology. Dr Richard Fisher, co-founder of the country’s largest infertility services […] […]

Two drug companies which market popular painkillers have given each other a headache over the advertising of one of the drugs. GlaxoSmithKline, which sells paracetamol-based drug Panadol, complained that Reckitt Benckiser, which markets and manufactures […] […]

SCIENTISTS have produced the first proof that genetic code faults play a key role in triggering attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. This  undermines theories that the fault lies with poor parenting or eating too many lollies. […] […]

HEALTH authorities are to be alerted instantly to any severe side effects from vaccination in the first “real-time” immunisation database. The Australian Health Ministers Conference will debate Western Australia’s plan to set up an online […] […]

GUATEMALANS have slammed a US confession that it led a 1940s study in their country in which hundreds of people were deliberately infected with STDs. “No matter how much of a superpower it is, the […] […]