SCIENCE

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.

Melanoma is on the rise among certain groups of dark-skinned Floridians, new research shows.

Drugmakers Merck, Tibotec and Gilead are in advanced talks with UNITAID about a patent pool to make AIDS drugs more widely available to the poor, the health funding agency said on Wednesday.

Liverpool Hospital will get 42 new beds and more emergency department equipment worth $20 million as part of an agreement between the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) and New South Wales.

Researchers at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute will conduct a clinical trial on a new rotavirus vaccine for babies they have developed.

A test of an anti-HIV vaginal gel among South African women showed that it can protect them from infection, researchers bared during the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna on Tuesday.

South Australia Coroner Mark Johns is suggesting a victims-of-suicide toll similar to the road toll saying this may prevent 200 people in the state from taking their own lives every year.

Kidsafe today said it was vital for all parents and grandparents to be aware of the correct use of child restraint in cars in the wake of a new study which found 80% of parents use the wrong form of child restraint.

With ideas as varied as velcro ties to see-through toasters Australians are coming up with wild and wonderful ways to make daily life a little bit easier as entries pour in to the National Stroke Foundation's inaugural Stroke of Genius competition.

A county court has ordered a surgeon to pay a Victorian woman $133,000 as compensation for damaging her breast in a reconstructive operation in April 2004.

A man who died Wednesday possibly from Lyme disease will be autopsied on orders of the Supreme Court to determine if the bacterial infection that affects the brain is the cause of his death.

One in four Australian aged 16 to 24 have mental disorder in 2009, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Children and young adults who were conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) have a slightly increased risk of developing cancer, relative to those conceived naturally, researchers from Sweden reported Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

There is little need to worry about serious side effects if your toddler is getting vaccinated against whooping cough, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.

Bill Clinton and Bill Gates urged AIDS activists on Monday to squeeze value out of every cent of funds to fight HIV, saying they could not expect donors to give more in hard times unless it was carefully spent.

NSW Chief Health Officer Dr. Kerry Chant urged people to get vaccinated against influenza starting today.