Based on an investigation by NSW Health, pollution has been ruled out as the cause of a cluster of brain tumours reported in a Hunter Valley mining town
Based on data released by the Cosmetic Physicians Society of Australasia (CPSA), expenditure for treatments such as anti-wrinkle injections and laser hair removal over 12 months till March 31 was up 30 per cent compared to the same duration early 2009.
Amarillo Biosciences, local biotech company has been testing its orally administered interferon in the test to study its efficiency in preventing the flu in 200 people in Western Australia.
According to new Australian study, women who eat a lot of processed meats like salami and hot dogs are at a higher risk of ovarian cancer.
(Reuters) - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, billionaire Bill Gates and Queen Rania of Jordan will put their fame to work this week as they join a Twitter campaign to end malaria deaths.
TORONTO - When doctors performed a coronary artery bypass on a Montreal man with a failing heart, they added a little something else before closing up his chest -- stem cells purified from his bone marrow that they had removed earlier that day. The stem cells serve to regenerate blood vessels and heart muscle cells.
A British woman has woken up speaking with a Chinese accent after reportedly suffering brain damage brought on by a severe migraine.
Europe's flight ban is preventing some life-saving transplant tissue from reaching patients, and other operations have had to be canceled because surgeons are stuck overseas.
Sharon Osbourne says she's having her breast implants removed this summer and will give them to her husband, rocker Ozzy Osbourne, as a paperweight.
A West Australian mother has become the first woman to win The Biggest Loser, shedding nearly half her body weight to triumph in the latest series.
Following the announcement of an outbreak of dengue in the north Queensland city last week, a third Townsville resident is believed to have contracted the virus.
The ban of indoor smoking observed in clubs and pubs, is directing the problem of second-hand smoke from indoors to outdoors.
An Australian study reveals many long-term smokers struggled seven times to break the habit and quitting smoking has been compared with breaking a heroin addiction.
Experts say young women of today are increasingly bombarded with new pressures to have sex early and sometimes, against their will, especially with the constant exposure of raunch and advanced consumerist culture of Western countries.
New study results of recent colon cancer research called 'A multilevel study of the determinants of area-level inequalities in colorectal cancer survival,' published in BMC Cancer may provide new insights on colon cancer therapy.
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should regulate the amount of salt that can be added to foods to help Americans eat less sodium, an influential federal panel said on Tuesday.
(Reuters) - Ash particles from Iceland's still-erupting volcano remain high in the atmosphere and do not pose a health risk so far to people in Europe, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
(Reuters) - Making simple changes like getting people to take their medicines exactly as directed or to refill their prescriptions on time could save employers and their workers as much as $163 billion a year in healthcare costs, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
Australia's obesity epidemic is at crisis point, say researchers who can now measure how losing just six kilograms results in a major health gain.
Olaparib, an experimental drug from AstraZeneca found to have shrank or stabilized tumors in around half of ovarian cancer patients with an inherited gene mutation in early-stage clinical tests.
Thousands of young children are accidentally poisoned by tobacco products each year in the U.S., and new dissolvable tobacco products that resemble candy might pose an additional risk, according to researchers.
Many people believe milk leads to upper-respiratory congestion, but studies have generally dismissed it as a myth.
Everyone wants to be likeable whether you are with strangers, friends, colleagues, customers, managers, employer and love ones.
(Reuters) - A variant of an obesity gene carried by more than a third of the U.S. population also reduces brain volume, raising carriers' risk of Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
According to the Crosby/Textor poll of 800 people across Australia, only 24 per cent adults thought healthy food options were a genuine attempt by fast food outlets to improve the eating habits of customers.
According to an expert, the jury is still out on whether multi-vitamins have any positive or negative effects on a person's risk for developing cancer.
According to new study led by a team of North American and European scientists, a new class of drugs called telaprevir which are protease inhibitors significantly improved cure rates and cut down treatment times in people suffering from hepatitis C.
According to the research led by the Aged Care Team at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital, Chinese-speaking Australians may smoke and drink less than Australians of English-speaking backgrounds, but they are more likely to suffer from diabetes.
A major Australian study offers new insights into the loss of brain structures and the potential link with Alzheimer's disease.
(Reuters) - Some of the largest U.S. health insurers are changing their accounting practices to book administration costs as medical costs in an attempt to circumvent new industry reforms, according to a U.S. Senate panel's report released on Thursday.
