HEALTH & WELLBEING

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' Australian founder, was given a peace award on Tuesday for "exceptional courage in pursuit of human rights."

Security researchers at Symantec sad a programming bug on Facebook’s website may have unintentionally given advertisers and others access to a bunch of personal information. This issue may have affected almost 100,000 Facebook applications for now.

The old theory was that cellulite was caused by toxins building up under the skin but that's probably not true. It's more likely to be the result of poor skin structure, causing the fibre to split. This means fat and yes, possibly toxins squish out through the holes in the fibres creating that lumpy effect

The old theory was that cellulite was caused by toxins building up under the skin but that's probably not true. It's more likely to be the result of poor skin structure, causing the fibre to split. This means fat and yes, possibly toxins squish out through the holes in the fibres creating that lumpy effect

A pound of fat burns around 2 calories per day. Muscle, on the other hand, burns around 6 calories per day — and that is at rest. Exercise the muscle (for example, during weight training) and you can burn an upwards of 250 calories, depending on your existing levels of lean body mass.

A Chinese woman from Suining, southwest China's Sichuan Province gave birth to a baby girl with two heads that surgeons ruled cannot be separated.

A Malaysian has offered an advice for those who are both frivolous on food and sexually adventurous.

In this busy world of hush and rush, women find less time to their health. But note small changes in your lifestyle could add on to give you a better disease free, fit and healthy body.

The Australian government’s budgetary concerns over the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) have been blown out of the water by the Government’s own figures.

Ask your average man in the street to name a major health concern facing the world today and they'd be unlikely to name diabetes.

People who take dietary supplements are not as healthy as people who don't according to a soon to be published study in the journal Psychological Science of the Association for Psychological Science.

Shingles, the painful recurrence among the elderly of the virus that caused chickenpox in their younger years might have finally found its match in a compound discovered by researchers in the University of Georgia nd Yale University. About 30 percent of elderly in the United States suffer from shingles and medical science currently has no specified treatment for it.

With the release of new and exciting meal options from the Jenny Craig at Home menus, it's easy to stay on track with controlled calorie and portion intake this winter without leaving the comfort of your warm home.

Malaysian officials have formally registered opposition to a proposal in the Australian parliament calling for new labels on food products containing palm oil

It has been a decades-old tradition in the Philippines that some men (and women) crucify themselves at 3pm on Good Friday, the exact time Jesus Christ is believed to have died on the cross.

"We think that this platform could be useful for multiple medical applications including the localized treatment of cancer, ocular disease, and cardiovascular disease,"

Dutch researchers have discovered what may well be the fastest and most dense digital storage method by disturbing the direction of an atom's magnetic field. Although still in its early experimental stages, the technology already promises the potential for data storage devices reading and writing at the terahertz range or about 1,000 times faster than current technology.

Experts today warned about the serious risk of health problems after the floods across Australia.

Research into lithium-air batteries that have the same energy density as gasoline, and with potential use in tractor trailers, is actively being investigated by Risø DTU, the National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy of the Technical University of Denmark. The research aims to remove the Achilles' heel of the electric car which is the limited energy density of today's batteries, which will only sustain short drives.

A world’s leading medical journal study reported that a gene that makes bacteria resistant to a large range of antibiotics has been found in water supplies of New Delhi.

Initially thought to be a danger only in hospitals, bacteria with the antibiotic-proof gene than can be horizontally transferred to other bacteria has been found in New Delhi's tap water network by researchers from the University of Cardiff led by Dr. Timothy Walsh as reported in the Lancet Infectious Diseases website.

Women with weight problems, particularly those dealing with obesity, are warned of the possible pregnancy risk and health concerns for their future babies.

A nanomedicine breakthrough using polymers to detect and destroy antibiotic resistant bacteria has been jointly announced by IBM and the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore. With this discovery, medicine now has a potent weapon against bacteria such as MRSA or methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus.

Medical experts have warned Australia must act to avoid an outbreak of a deadly new superbug strain.

An Australian company has developed a stem cell treatment which is helping to relieve pain and suffering in small and large animals all around the world.

The Department of Health and Ageing (DOHA) and Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) has issued the following advice on exposure to radiation arising from nuclear incidents in Japan, based on available information and current assessments:

Victorian families have been urged to get their gas appliances regularly serviced and checked to stop accidental carbon monoxide deaths in a new campaign featuring the parents of two children who died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

A study by scientists at the University of Sydney and the Children's Hospital at Westmead has found has found that some girls are missing out on the vaccination that helps protect against cervical cancer because of fears related to the vaccination process.

The Australian government on Monday launched its new advertising campaign calling on all Indigenous Australians to quit smoking. The new campaign will start hitting the airwaves, newspapers and TV screens today as the Australian Government continues its world-leading action to combat tobacco use.