Health

A new study of infants born to HIV positive mothers has found the new-borns have compromised immune systems, even without...

High school students are getting fatter and lazier according to a major national survey released today. It’s the first such...

Today is world AIDS day and worrying new figures show that not only are many Australians not concerned about the...

Salt in our diets has been linked to cardiovascular disease for many years. But Australians are still consuming on average...

Every year the Fred Hollows Foundation holds an ‘eye intensive’ in Alice Springs, to perform sight restoring operations on people...

A new study has shown that over 80% of university students are suffering from psychological distress. In comparison to the...

The number of people checking in for alcohol treatment at one of Australia’s leading drug rehabilitation centres has jumped to...

Australians are living longer than they ever have with new statistics showing the death rate is at the lowest level...

Dementia and mental health care was given a boost when the Government announced it will be funding research ino the...

Ten months on from the earthquake that devastated their country, Haitians are dealing with a cholera epidemic. A thousand people...