Looking to get a bit fit? This may not be for you
Researchers tracked 800 full-time workers to see if wearing a Fitbit made them any fitter, here's what they found.
Rania is a health reporter at The Age.
Researchers tracked 800 full-time workers to see if wearing a Fitbit made them any fitter, here's what they found.
Protection against allergies and asthma seen in children who grow up on farms extends well into their adulthood and may come with other health benefits.
Drug companies are spending thousands of dollars on Australian nurses and their employers support this.
The first Australian showing of a film by a disgraced former doctor who's "fraudulent" research underpinned the anti-vaccination movement has drawn a firestorm of outrage to a small film festival in country Victoria.
Doctor queries ethics of medical cannabis trials on children with severe epilepsy.
Scientists are edging closer to a tablet that can mimic some of the effects of exercise. But don't start slacking off just yet - testing on humans is still at least five years away.
Pharmaceutical companies have spent $12 million paying nurses for their advice and educating them in recent years despite only a few being able to prescribe drugs.
Over-diagnosis of a common thyroid cancer is causing unnecessary surgeries that is putting patients at risk, Australian researchers say.
The patient had been raped. Her fallopian tubes had to be taken because he'd given her gonorrhoea. And with them had gone her dream of becoming a mother.
A substance used by athletes could be the key to a healthy birth weight for babies? It's a novel theory that has found some solid footing in Australian research published today.
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