Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization (CSIRO), thinks lupins could become a new health food for humans.
(Reuters) - Rock singer and TV reality star Bret Michaels remained in critical condition, but was conscious and talking with slurred speech after suffering a brain hemorrhage, his publicist said on Sunday.
(Reuters) - Barely a twentieth of the estimated $3.2 billion needed is put into preventing drug users spreading the AIDS virus, experts said on Monday, and the shortfall is fuelling HIV epidemics in parts of Europe and Asia.
Renovations at East Fremantle Hospital made babies and mother's health at risk.
New surgical technique for bowel cancer patients involves less pain and reduces time spent in hospitals.
Scientists recently found out in their genetic studies that smoking and nicotine addiction may be found in ones genetic make-up.
After a missing man died at Nambour hospital, police are now searching for another missing man at Gold Coast.
Researchers warned that by listening to your iPods and MP3 players at high volume for several hours a day may risk yourself of deafness in your later years.
Researchers found that among 54 low- to middle-income countries, a mother's shorter height is associated with a higher rate of death for her children and a greater likelihood of these children being underweight and having a reduced rate of growth.
A computerised diagnostic model developed by a group of specialists in Australia have shown to be more accurate than a doctor's clinical judgement.
Many would have thought that by playing computer games will improve memory and other skills because it stimulates brain activity.
Young models in the international modeling arena are frequently pressured to starve themselves, offered to take drugs and exposed to seedy sex trade, says Tione Hawkin, Australian model.
Two year-old Ashlee Epapara was found dead in her cot on April 9, the morning after she and her twin sister received the seasonal flu vaccination from their family GP in Brisbane.
The government has been urged by mental health experts to provide more funds for the management of patients with severe psychotic illness in order to cut the demand on acute care beds in hospital.
Doctors in Canberra are moving to calm the concerns about the seasonal flu vaccination, to reassure adults that it remains safe for use.
Male doctors would be forced to use chaperones during examination of women patients, if proposed rules to be put through.
Learn faster when you sleep after completing a particular task.
Australia remains divided in the issue of horse vaccinations against the equine influenza.
Young Australians, mostly males, resort to dangerous methods in order to lose some pounds.
An Italian inventor, Luciano Marabese has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu -- an electronic holy water dispenser.
Fetuses begin moving at around 7 weeks of pregnancy, but it's only after around 16 to 18 weeks that expectant mums start to feel any kicking or movement.
Drug regulators are immediately investigating the flu vaccine used for children to check for its safety following the announcement by Australia's chief medical officer to halt immunization for children under five years of age.
According to sex experts, most men say they are up for it whenever but the art of seduction appears to have been diminished.
The season flu shots for children less than five years of age have been suspended in Tasmania, following the other states across the country, informed Tasmania health authorities.
The lawyer representing the family of a 27 year-old man who died after being sedated and restrained at the Townsville hospital last week, says they will be suing Queensland Health over the man's death
According to a recent study, women who work part time have the healthiest children.
(Reuters) - Novo Nordisk's new diabetes drug Victoza proved more effective than Merck & Co's Januvia in a head-to-head study, boosting prospects for a product that has got off to a strong start in key markets.
(Reuters) - People who got immunized against the 1976 swine flu epidemic that never happened may have benefited from the shots after all -- they may have been protected from the 2009 H1N1 swine flu strain.
(Reuters) - Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has called on health insurer WellPoint to stop dropping coverage for patients recently diagnosed with breast cancer, calling the practice deplorable.
New research shows that second-hand smoke could be to blame for chronic itchy, runny nose and sinus woes - also known as rhinosinusitis -- that plague one in every six US adults.
