HEALTH & WELLBEING

Psychologists feel that people who suffer from “spiritual anorexia” are more likely to get involved in terror groups than others.

Detainees enjoy ease in the conditions of the detention centre at Nauru, giving them freedom of movement in the tiny island-nation.

A new report praised the quality of end-of-life care in the UK as the best in the world, as well as noting the surprising improvements in poorer nations.

Scientists have gone back to the age of Hippocrates to establish a connection between certain diseases and the month a person is born.

A new report from the AIHW shows the rapid increase of demand for “ice” drug from Australians, especially the indigenous people.

A cheap man-made drug, Flakka, has hit Australia, resulting in a series of extreme symptoms in people, youths in particular.

Physical inactivity among children and adults triggers health issues, and to counter this problem,the Heart Foundation has organised a campaign that will deal with issues like poor diet and lack of physical activity.

Sex selective IVF has become popular with Australians, but because the procedure is banned in the country, the parent to-be are travelling to US to pick their child's sex.

In what could be a game changer in the field of heart surgery, doctors will now have the opportunity to plan out a medical procedure beforehand, thanks to 3D printing.

Selfie-related incidents caused more deaths in 2015 than shark attacks, with countries now taking precautions against the risk-taking attitudes of people seeking for the perfect pic.

A five-fold increase in the consumption of opioid painkiller oxycodone and the recent adverse reactions by the two Rabbitohs players, Dylan Walker and Aaron Gray, has prompted health experts to issue a warning against the drug's abuse.

A huge overnight increase in the tuberculosis drug prices has instigated a nonprofit organisation to require the rights of the drug it had sold to small pharmaceutical company, Rodelis Therapeutics.

Modelling is not just for young people, as a 59-year-old model has proven. Yasmina Rossi shares her secrets.

Author reveals the secret behind the easy invasion of Nazi troops of Poland and France during World War II.

With limited hospital bed strength and increasing number of hospitalisations, the Indian dengue menace is expected to continue till the winter months.

An Australian father infiltrated China's drug gangs to find his dead son's suppliers.

The AIHW released a new report showing the progress of young Australians on avoiding smoking, single-occasion risky drinking and illicit drugs, but obesity remains a concern.

An alleged victim of scopolamine has shared his story with IBTimes AU.

A new medical technology developed in Massachusetts could put an end to the shortage of heart for transplantation in cardiac patients.

The neighbour who heard the noises said it was the worst two years of her life.

Depression is becoming a pandemic disorder. It knows neither ethnicity nor age. While men and women are affected, the risk is higher among young adults.

After decades of being afflicted with financial turmoil, Veterans' plea of receiving decent financial support from the government may finally come to a halt.

Two hormones were found in the human brain which could help in the process of burning fat.

A research found that when couples work out together, they have more success in weight loss when compared to those couples in which there was one consistently healthy partner.

A protein BDNF controls the heart's functioning.

A new chemical agent, BDNF, has been found to control fear and anxiety.

A drink a day may not be bad for the heart.

An egg a day can actually be a preventive against diseases.

Here's how to deal -- and not deal -- with gout