Health / Wellness

Fast food menus listing how much exercise would be required to work off different items may be another way to help combat obesity. That’s the belief of a couple of US scientists who researched how much people ordered when they knew the amount of brisk walking it would take to ...

Imagine if your mobile phone could warn you of an impending heart attack or send out an alert to a passerby. Or if your iPad could connect you to a specialist who could diagnose depression by looking at your facial expressions. You may not need to use your imagination for ...

But do these actually work and should everyone be taking a supplement of some description? This is the question I commonly get asked and it is important that we know the answer to avoid potentially harming our bodies or at the very least, unnecessary spending. Should everyone take supplements? The ...

It’s suffered by a third of women who’ve had babies – and even one in eight who haven’t – yet because incontinence is not a problem people like to talk about, many are putting up with something that can be fixed. With the start of Continence Week tomorrow, Dr Margaret ...

A new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) could change the lives of a quarter of a million Australians affected by the debilitating disease. Currently being trialled in the UK, the new therapy uses a patient’s own immune system to fight RA. It consists of a single low-cost injection made from the ...

It’s been blamed for anything from anxiety to abdominal pain, diarrhoea, migraine, mood swings and lowered immunity. The term “leaky gut” may sound like what happens to you after a bad prawn curry, but this diagnosis is now being offered as the culprit for as many as 40 psychological and ...

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There are plenty of reasons why Australians are jumping online to buy their drugs. However, the increasing number of dot-com drug purchases going wrong has prompted health experts to warn that buying medicines and supplements from the internet is far more risky than doing the weekly grocery shop or picking ...

At first sight, Bailey seems like a typical 10-year-old boy. He’s energetic and lively; his love of basketball regularly sees him shooting hoops in the street with the neighbourhood kids after school. But first impressions can be deceiving. Bailey has cerebral palsy, a disorder that affects muscle and bone development ...

Coffee drinkers beware: there’s a chance your morning cup may contain a filler ingredient such as wheat, barley, corn, or even ground up sticks and twigs. These extra ingredients make ground coffee go farther and increase profits for producers, according to Brazilian researchers who have developed a test to detect ...