HEALTH & WELLBEING

A measles outbreak has been issued in Victoria after an infected man came into contact with thousands of people during Boxing Day at a shopping centre in Melbourne. Similarly, the New Zealand Ministry of Health has confirmed ten cases of affected people, all of whom have attended a hip-hop competition in NSW.

Cameron Diaz is one naughty woman. The "There is Something About Mary" actress has now turned author and written a book titled "The Body Book." The 41-year-old has written an entire chapter on ...guess what..women's pubic hair! Diaz questions why there has been a need to go bald down there and says women should rather remain "fully dressed."

HIV relapsed on two Boston patients motivate scientists to look for better treatment methods and ways to create a functional cure against the virus. The unfortunate event revealed several important factors on how to stop HIV/AIDS for good.

A man has claimed on Reddit that he has two genitals

Smoking pregnant women in New Zealand are offered $300 vouchers to quit the habit. The South Auckland government imposed the voucher scheme to protect unborn babies from tobacco damage.

Due to more Australian women having the perception that their private parts have abnormal appearance, labiaplasties have increased by 5-fold in the country Down Under since 2001.

In most countries, a fireworks display marks the celebration of New Year's Eve, but 40 per cent of New Zealanders want fireworks banned. The Fire Service is happy with the attitude of Kiwis since many people use fireworks in a dangerous manner. Meanwhile, New Year revelers are warned of fake Ecstasy drugs rumoured to be in circulation.

About 3.6 million Australian workers are most likely exposed to carcinogens or cancer-causing agents in mining, agriculture and transport industries. Australian researchers have found that 40 per cent of workers are at risk of cancer with 37 per cent of men exposed to higher risk than 7.9 per cent of women.

A professor from Iowa State University's Department of Biomedical Services who faked an AIDS cure research resigned from his post. The professor admits faking the cure to get part of $19 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health.

The problem of obesity in the UK is getting worse with misguided parents continuing to raise overweight children who are allowed to help themselves to sweets and junk food without getting any form of exercise.

HIV research and development achieved several discoveries in 2013 - from drug therapy to unconventional and risky methods to eliminate the virus. Some of them found new things about HIV and plans to put them into trial. Here are some of notable anti-HIV results for this year to know what we can expect for 2014.

It's like waking up to a traveller's nightmare. Christchurch local Debbie Roome slept at an Auckland motel and woke up with more than 300 bites from bed bugs.

Rumours are going around the tech industry that Samsung will release a Galaxy Band Fitness Tracker to debut at the 2014 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain. The 2014 MWC will be held at the Fira Gran Via from Feb. 24 -27, 2014.

Scientists have discovered two new breakthroughs regarding HIV viral loads in infected cells. German researchers have successfully stripped the virus from host cells while Gladstone Institutes cracked HIV secret to unlock new treatments.

An unidentified French woman has been complaining of pain in her stomach weeks after she gave birth to her child via cesarian section. She returned to the hospital to seek medical help and was shocked to know that a pair of scissors has been left inside her body the whole time.

Pregnant women weighing as high as 300 kilograms and with heavy body mass index (BMI) who are giving birth in Queensland may risk not only their lives but also their babies.

Can Australian scorpion venom actually be used for pain management? Scientists from Queensland University, Canada's Dalhousie University and Portugal's Universidade do Porto think so after studying the venom of Australian scorpions and discovering that it might be an effective painkiller. The study is entitled "Evolution Stings: The Origin and Diversification of Scorpion Toxin Peptide Scaffolds."

About 11 people in north China's Hebei Province were quarantined on Monday after health authorities confirmed they had direct contact with chicken infected with H5N2 avian influenza virus.

Many fear that the privatisation of medical marijuana is going to cost pretty high.

An Australian woman has sued a deli owner for serving bottled water containing semen. The sperm belonged to the deli owner whose DNA matched the sample taken from the bottled water based on test results. According to the documents filed before the court, deli owner Dahn Le had intentionally placed his semen in the bottled water. He knew the water was contaminated with sperm and sold it to the public anyway.

China has punished some 20,000 government officials almost a year after it implemented its anti-graft campaign drive, according to a statement from the Central Commission for Discipline and Inspection of the CPC, Communist Party of China's anti-graft watchdog.

You may have known that step aerobics can burn calories and is a good exercise for the heart, but did you know that research specifically has found step aerobics can step up your good cholesterol levels. A study published in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness found step aerobic exercise significantly raised the HDL- cholesterol levels of the study participants. This small, eight-week study followed 45 sedentary female Turkish college students. Fifteen of the women participated i...

Sagging skin is caused by losing too much weight too quickly. Slow, gradual weight loss does not result in excess flab, but rather, gives your skin and other body parts a chance to respond to all the changes that weight loss brings. Eat a healthy, balanced diet that includes all the same vitamins and minerals that keep skin healthy, but most of all: Slow down!

Fruits and vegetables are at their nutritional best in their raw state but, the idea of maintaining a constant diet of uncooked food would be less than appealing. There are many people who are happy to follow a raw food diet, often claiming that it makes them feel more energetic and ‘alive’. They believe that cooking and processing not only damage the nutritional quality of food, but also reduce its health-giving properties. It is true that the nutritional content of fruit and vegetables is red...

"Women can work at a higher percentage of their maximum heart rate than the men and a higher percentage of their maximum oxygen consumption." This information has been published in "Sex-specific Responses to Interval Training" a study conducted by Drs. Matt Laurent and Matt Kutz, Human Movement.

A fitness injury can be painful, inconvenient, and ruin your exercise routine. Thankfully, though, there are ways to keep your body in top condition at every workout. In addition to practicing equipment safety, and proper form, you can significantly cut your risk of injury by regularly stretching your muscles.

Before you go on to read - decide that curly hair is not a curse. Curls are sexy and romantic, and men love them. They are bouncy, voluminous and can be pulled into any hairstyle imaginable. Once you have your curls looking their best, you'll be amazed at all the compliments you'll get. They denote fun, creativity and openness.

New Zealand parents want to remove Wi-Fi from classrooms at Te Horo School after their son died from brain cancer. Ethan Wyman died 11 months after doctors diagnosed two brain tumours.

Scientists from the U.S. and Australia have discovered a way to reverse the ageing process. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and University of New South Wales said they have tested the procedure on mice and it proved to be successful. They are now working to test the method on humans.