Health

In Australia, gay men can only donate blood if they abstain from sex for 12 months. This policy is currently...

Researchers have come up with a new pen-like device that can measure blood pressure far more accurately than the tourniquet...

For the first time in five years, euthanasia is being debated in Tasmanian parliament. Tasmania’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill has...

Mental health groups are presenting their recommendations to the new Federal Government and its health minister Peter Dutton with the...

There is no doubt that losing weight can be a battle, one that could easily turn in to a perpetual...

One in four men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime, but some may be too slow-growing to ever actually...

The R U OK campaign was on the 12 September, creating awareness about depression in Australia. However, a group of...

Tasmania’s poppy crops are a booming state industry, contributing to half of the world’s opiad production. However, the plants are...

Dr Philip Nitschke’s biography Damned if I Do reflects back on his life as an activist. He says the time...

The contraceptive pill is the most common form of contraception used in Australia. 200,000 Australian women are believed to be...