Health/Science

The prospect of being able to take a pill to combat fear and anxiety has come a step closer, with a study showing that it is possible to overcome bad memories of painful situations with […] […]

AUSTRALIAN health experts have welcomed the results of a study which proves children who eat three fast-food burgers a week have increased rates of asthma and “wheeze”. A diet rich in fish, fruit and vegetables […] […]

GERMANS are getting fatter, official figures reveal, with 51 percent of adults in Europe’s most populous country now classed as overweight. Sixty percent of men and 43 percent of women have a Body Mass Index […] […]

SEASONAL flu shots can trigger febrile fits in young children at nine times the expected rate and should not be given to healthy under-fives this winter, the Chief Medical Officer advised yesterday in a warning […] […]

BENDIGO Hospital has apologised for “an appalling error of judgement” where a 92-year-old woman was left outside in the cold for nearly an hour on Friday night. Hospital chief executive John Mulder said the wheelchair-bound […] […]

A revolutionary jab that could both prevent and treat breast cancer has been developed. The drug – to be tested on women as early as next year – could wipe out up to 70 per […] […]

A helping hand, far from home, in a time of need Distance, stigma mean some Aboriginal women feel they do not have a choice The narrow staircase leading down to the basement has fewer than […] […]

The coat hanger was its graphic symbol of death, outrage and ultimately, a woman’s right to control her own body. The “Abortion Caravan” rolled into Ottawa on Mother’s Day weekend in 1970, a convoy of […] […]

We finally have a case in which the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy is responding forcefully and speedily to allegations of wrongdoing. But the target isn’t a pedophile priest. Rather, it’s a nun who helped save […] […]

GOING to the gym is not only good for you, it can also halt the aging process, according to new study. Working out for as little as 15 minutes every day helps to slowing down […] […]