HEALTH & WELLBEING

Rebecca Harreman posts a heartbreaking video of her four-month-old baby boy with whooping cough.

The global diabetes epidemic has attracted the attention of a number of leading nations and organisations, including Diabetes Australia and the World Health Organization.

Researchers found that a drug being tested to cure Alzheimer’s could counter old age, a major risk factor of the disease.

Aussie couple battles meth use by developing app designed to scare users of ice into stopping the vice.

A new surgically implantable, artificial kidney has been developed for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure, as a permanent solution to the scarcity in organ transplantation.

Researchers have found that energy drinks surpass coffee in improving endothelial function, which helps keeps your circulatory system working properly.

Enjoy some food, wine and great conversation with Michael Turnbull at a restaurant of his choice.

A survey released by the Australian Psychological Society shows disturbing trends in teens’ health.

Sharon Stone follows cleansing and moisturising regularly for her youthful glow, an advice given by her mother.

Australia's Agricultural Minister believes that the World Health Organisation's claim that processed meat can cause cancer is a “farce.”

The NSW Government has announced cannabis trials for children with severe epilepsy early next year.

A recent poll found that 91 percent of the Australians would like to see marijuana legalised in the country for medicinal use.

A 24-year-old female manager at a salon in Las Vegas was found in a full-body cryotherapy machine.

Young researchers from the University of Sydney were included in this year’s prestigious celebration of Australian intellectual and scientific excellence.

A new Australian research claims that children who get to bed early are more likely to have better health, as well as happier moms.

Westmead Hospital in New South Wales is setting up a poo transplantation programme as part of its new treatment to cure the C. diff infection, which causes symptoms of diarrhoea and life-threatening inflammation of the colon.

Ministers published a secret official study on sugar consumption to pressure PM David Cameron to tax sugary products to battle obesity.

The parasitic worm Opisthorchis viverrini was found to be effective in accelerating the healing of chronic wounds, and will help develop a vaccine against its induced cancer in the bile duct.

The Yabao Pharmaceutical Company of China and Eli Lilly and Company in the US have announced their second strategic collaboration to develop a promising therapeutic approach for both early-stage and advanced diabetes.

A postgraduate at the University of Leeds is currently developing a liquid crystal eye lens that could restore eyesight in middle-aged adults and thus eliminate the need of wearing an eyeglass.

The ACCC has found that the country's private health insurance system is cheating on policyholders by offering less coverage.

The Victoria health department has released a report that shows the worst hospitals for baby deaths.

For the first time in Australia, a citizen jury has been formed to recommend practical and workable solutions to tackle rising rates of obesity.

A popular aquarium fish, which has become an important model organism for biomedical researches, is now used to analyse rare heart disorders.

The decision to undergo these surgeries to live longer might have been an easy choice for Jolie-Pitt, but her mastectomy and hysterectomy took a toll on her health.

A Stanford University research team has developed a skin-like material that can sense touch and accordingly send signals to the brain.

Lamar Odom's medical condition is likely a result of his taking herbal Viagra, which the FDA had issued a warning about in 2013.

A study conducted by Australian researchers on pregnant women to check the impact of the stressful events during pregnancy.

With ‘frozen egg’ technique, women to freeze their eggs in their youths, if they want to get pregnant late in life.