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Emulsifiers make everything from ice cream to salad dressing taste smooth and creamy – but they could also be increasing your risk ofobesity and inflammatory bowel diseases. Researchers from Georgia State University and Cornell University in the US, and Bar Ilan University in Israel, administered two common emulsifiers (Polysorbate 80 ...

Australians are missing out on life-saving medicines that are readily available to most of the world, according to a new report from Medicines Australia. The Compare (Comparison Of Access And Reimbursement Environments) report reveals that Australia is ranked 18 out of 20 countries in the Organisation For Economic Co-operation And ...

Students preparing for exams and those in high-pressured jobs are turning to chemical brain boosters to give them an edge. These nootropics or “smart drugs” are described by the Australian Drug Foundation (ADF) as “cognitive enhancers”. Essentially, they’re chemical compounds purported to improve memory, alertness and concentration. But do they ...

Jeremy McGhee was 25 when he was hit by a car in 2001, while riding his motorbike to run errands a few blocks from home. “I remember everything about the accident,” he says. “I worked in trauma [as a lifeguard] so I was sort of self-assessing as it was happening. ...

When Kim Kardashian set out to “break the internet” by baring her bottom on the cover of a magazine last year, she could have taken her styling cues from 55-year-old Melbourne man Craig Coombes, for whom posing in his birthday suit is a weekly event. Coombsey, as he’s known to ...

Going to the toilet should be a straightforward affair – go to the toilet, sit down, do your business and away you go. However according to microbiologist and author of Charming Bowels it seems we shouldn’t actually be sitting but squatting when we’re on the loo. Enders cites numerous studies ...

Headphone-related hearing loss Remember when your parents used to yell, “Turn it down”? With headphones, that’s no longer necessary but, according to the journal Pediatrics, more than 12 per cent of children suffer from noise-inducedhearing loss due to hazardous levels of noise. And it’s simply a matter of volume. Experts ...