HEALTH

Old age people are prone to accident risk in their own home. Changes in vision, hearing, muscle strength, co-ordination and reflexes make older people vulnerable to falls; they may fall on a staircase because of poor lighting, sprained their muscles when lifting heavy things or burn themselves while using the kitchen. While these accidents may be small for young people but for the aged, special ai...

Debbie Lampton, mother of the mentally ill man who died after being handcuffed by police and injected with anti-psychotic drugs at the Townsville Hospital speaks out about the harrowing ordeal.

According to scientists, the new antiplatelet drug appears to be activated at low temperatures, making it potentially the first to protect against clotting during therapeutic hypothermia without provoking bleeding at rewarming.

Academic professor Wayne Hall says young Australians should have a zero blood alcohol requirement attached to their driver's license until they turn 21 at least, in a bid to reduce road toll.

Women who take multi-vitamin pill daily are nearly 20 per cent more likely to develop breast cancer, revealed a major study.

A crew member off a foreign ship remains quarantined at Wollongong Hospital with suspected leprosy, while health experts await test results.

Taking multivitamin supplements during the late periods of pregnancy of a woman can place soon to be mothers at an increased risk of premature labor.

Researchers found out that human breast milk and coconut oil can cure acne skin problems.

A recent study reveals that a playful and friendly environment can help children with autism to cope up and develop social skills

Zero blood alcohol content for young Australian drivers who will apply for a driver's license,

After hours clinics reduces the load of patients that emergency departments in an hospital accepts in a day.

Parents are sending their girls as young as the age of nine to have their legs waxed and undergo painful beauty treatments

Opposition health spokesperson said that the government has failed to meet the four hour rule target for emergency department of hospitals.

Intake of multivitamins on a daily basis causes higher risk to the development of breast cancer.

Too much television and being driven to school have seen links to cause obesity to young children.

Australian Red Cross are now reviewing their policy of banning homosexual men from donating blood.

Most people are not aware of the seriousness of a minor stroke

Rosebery residents will sue health officials as well as the management of MMG Australia for exposing them to high levels of health risk.

Leprosy disease has entered New South Wales

According to a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) study, which listed floods among the nation's deadliest of natural disasters, there have been at least 73 flood-related deaths from 1997 to 2008.

Victorian health authorities have been contacted by more than 1,300 people concerned they may have been infected with hepatitis C by the suspended anaesthetist, Dr James Latham.

According to a new report: Cardiovascular disease mortality - trends at different ages, released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the number of Australians who die each year from cardiovascular disease has been steadily falling since 1960s, with older age groups experiencing the greatest decline in deaths.

Two women from the suburbs of North Ward and Deeragun have been diagnosed with type two of the dengue virus - the first locally-acquired cases in the city since December, confirmed Queensland Health.

If you have had piercing or a tattoo, have shared needles with another person, or had a blood transfusion prior to 1990 you may be part of the one per cent of the Australian population who has been exposed to hepatitis C.

(Reuters) - More U.S. babies are being born with syphilis, many of them to women in the South who use crack cocaine and work in the sex trade, according to a U.S. government report released on Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with inflammatory bowel disease commonly believe that stress can trigger their symptoms, and a new study suggests they may be right.

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama issued a memo on Thursday that would require hospitals accepting Medicare or Medicaid funds to allow visitation rights to gay and lesbian partners.

Called the Hotshot, the condom has been produced after government research showed 12 to14-year-olds did not use sufficient protection when having sex.

Before you spit out the seeds in grapes, think again, it might have some good use.