New changes in liquor laws at South Australia which will take effect next week is intended for responsible alcohol consumption
World Health Organization warned the public that gonorrhea may soon become untreatable due to its resistance to antimicrobial antibiotics.
A recent study found out that female fetuses deal quickly with prolonged stress when inside their mother's womb.
Doctor malpractice exposed hundreds of patients to infectious diseases such as Hepatitis B, C and HIV
TORONTO - Diabetics with impaired kidneys should avoid taking high doses of certain B vitamins because the supplements may do serious harm, researchers say.
A thorough investigation into CSL Ltd's seasonal flu vaccine that includes the H1N1 pandemic strain is now being performed by Australia's drug regulator, after the flu shots were linked with adverse reactions in children.
Australia has been warned by a leading international cancer expert that it is on a cancer collision course, with a great increase in cancer cases predicted within the next 20 years unless action is taken to curb the obesity epidemic.
The exposure to last year's swine flu outbreak may have caused children to be more susceptible to experiencing severe reactions that are now manifested through recent influenza vaccinations.
The number one cause of death in Australia for men under 45 is not due to road fatalities or any kind of physical disease. It is suicide and the statistics are disturbing.
Bronwyn Collins, 21 year-old beyondblue ambassador says it's no small thing talking publicly about one's depression.
(Reuters) - WellPoint Inc said that as of May 1 it would expedite healthcare reforms and stop dropping healthcare coverage for customers after they get sick, responding to pressure from Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.
(Reuters) - Americans are steadily losing confidence in their ability to get healthcare and pay for it, despite the passage of healthcare reform legislation, according to a survey published on Wednesday.
Researcher gets 4 months in prison for reading celebrity medical records.
Starlight Children's Foundation continues to reach children with serious illness as more volunteers start to help their cause.
Red Cross Australia made a blood donation ban due to the risk from chronic fatigue syndrome
Australia's population in the next 25 years will have double cancer cases figures of people don't start a healthy simple lifestyle.
Doctors nowadays underestimates the seriousness of a fever of their children patients.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and NSW Premier Kristina Keneally signed new health reform deals to aid the state's hospitals.
CSIRO researchers say a healthy diet with the recommended intake of wholegrains could be as potent at combating heart disease as medication.
Silver-colored fillings, officially known as amalgam fillings, contain mercury and have been used by dentists for over a hundred years to treat cavities in teeth. They are known to last longer and less expensive.
Approximately 30 million people in the United States suffer from migraine pain, which is often described as a throbbing pain in one area of the head and is often accompanied by nausea, vomiting and other symptoms.
Researchers at the Australia's Burnet Institute have created a rapid point-of-care diagnostic test for measuring CD4 T-cells, the marker of the immune system for people with HIV and AIDS.
The reason why a total of 55 young children in West Australia experienced febrile convulsions and a two year-old, Ashley Epapara found dead in her cot after receiving the seasonal flu vaccinations has left health experts perplexed but they hope to seek the root cause of the problem, by next week.
While previous study had focused on the negative evaluations of obese people, often blamed for being lazy and not exercising self-control, the new findings published in the International Journal of Obesity suggests an explanation about negative emotional reaction towards obesity that can help understand why those attitudes toward obese people are resistant to change.
According to researchers, the brain of notorious gangland killer Carl Williams which has been donated to science, may not likely offer any insight into his behaviour.
As one of the country's most lethal diseases, pancreatic cancer claims five Australian lives every day, but still remains off the health billboard.
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Motivation and keeping a journal of what you eat are key components for shedding excess weight, according to new research.
(Reuters) - U.S. healthcare reform spawned a wave of lowered profit forecasts this week as drugmakers quantified the costs, but the pain should be manageable until the new law starts helping results in 2014.
(Reuters) - People who are depressed eat more chocolate than people who are not, U.S. researchers said on Monday, in a study that puts numbers behind the link between mood and chocolate.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Addicted to smoking and unable to quit? Your genes may be partly to blame, according to a trio of studies published Sunday in Nature Genetics that link several gene variants to a range of smoking habits, as well as increased risk for lung cancer.
