Mining firm Minerals and Metals Group and the Tasmanian Department of Health & Human Services told Rosebery residents Thursday that results of MMG's extensive soil, dust and water tests in the Tasmanian town, including blood tests on locals, found no evidence that heavy metals have harmed the community's population.
A one-year-old boy from South Australia afflicted with Goldenhar syndrome does not know how to eat because of a deformed jaw and tongue. His parents feed him through a tube as doctors have given up on how to make him eat normally.
Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) claim that many Australians have higher chronic disease risk because they missed out on breastfeeding when they were babies.
An imbalance in polyunsaturated fatty acids in the body, when excessive Omega 6 (linoleic acid) and less Omega 3 (alpha-linoleic acid) are absorbed from food, can lead to obesity, according to French researchers.
Majority of Australian consumers favor having their own e-health record but at no cost to them, according to a phone survey commissioned by the CSC, the world's largest health systems integrator.
Children's visits to the emergency room for serious food-allergy reactions may be on the rise, if the experience of one major U.S. medical center is an indicator.
An updated edition of a mental health bible for doctors may include diagnoses for disorders such as toddler tantrums and binge eating, experts say, and could mean that soon no-one will be classed as normal.
A total 16 patients with abnormal heart rhythm have been treated at the Flinders Private Hospital via remote control surgery.
Israeli scientists have developed a device that allows severely disabled people to communicate by using their nose.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Tuesday she plans to beef up mental health service with a $277 million fund dedicated to preventing suicides among 12,500 suicidal and depressed people.
Many men with low-risk prostate cancer get aggressive treatment, increasing the risk of serious side effects, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Long-distance commuting is still the norm in spite of progress in flexible working practices, finds global workplace solutions provider Regus.
The Bible's teaching on monogamy is attuned with neuroscientific findings that the human body operates best with one sexual partner for life, according to a sexologist and a Presbyterian minister.
The NSW government has included alcoholics in its magistrates early referral into treatment (MERIT) program in the hope that it will cut down offences by defendants who are alcohol-dependent.
The Australian Crime Commission's National Indigenous Intelligence Task Force has reported the rising cases of children forcing other children into sexual acts and called for more therapeutic services for kids who exhibit sexually abusive behaviour.
The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) called for a policy shift in elderly care on Monday urging authorities to focus on the use of technologies to keep elderly people at home instead of in the hospital.
The Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) on Monday warned the public to beware of taking advices and information from the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) website.
Educated people are better able to cope with the physical effects of dementia, and even one extra year of education can significantly cut the risk of developing the brain-wasting disease, scientists said on Monday.
After one patient died and others suffered serious complications following Lap-Band surgery, Dr. Neelu Pal had seen enough. A petite surgical resident now aged 40, she began quietly calling patients about to undergo the weight-loss procedure at New York University's Medical Center, telling them she feared for their safety.
A recent study has found that eating more red and processed meat each day leads to weight gain for both men and women.
The Charity Cancer Research (CCR) in Britain has reported that more women are developing womb cancer nowadays compared to 35 years ago.
One in five Australians prefer not to eat or be without heating or mobile phone than have no Internet access for a day, according to a survey by telecommunications and media firm Telstra Corp. Ltd. released Monday.
The Queesland education department has detected cancer-causing asbestoslux in the walls of 115 schools it had inspected.
Science doesn't just help to invent new products, it can push existing ones.
U.S. President Barack Obama pledged on Friday to redouble efforts to fight HIV and AIDS through his global health initiative, despite dealing with economic hard times in the wake of a global recession.
A cup of coffee a day during pregnancy probably won't increase a woman's risk of miscarriage or premature birth, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said today.
Two pivotal trials of a Johnson & Johnson experimental HIV drug found it worked as well as an existing drug, with fewer side effects but also with nearly twice as many patients failing to respond to treatment.
Drug company Genzyme will no longer provide drugs to prolong the lives of 14 patients suffering from the deadly and extremely rare Pompe disease when its $600,000 annual charity funding ceases later this year.
Kingaroy residents are demanding the shutdown of an experimental coal-seam gas plant in Queensland for allegedly contaminating underground water supplies.
Overweight people may respond more to a piping hot pizza, but they don't necessarily eat more of it in a single sitting, according to a new study.
