Experts slam TGA e-cigarette ban as 'unethical' and 'unscientific'

For most of 40 years, David Stephens lit up a smoke to enjoy with his coffee each morning.

Plan to help us decipher which vitamins and herbal remedies actually work

The vitamins and supplements you buy could soon have a government of tick of approval if they are found to be evidence-based.

Firstborns both older and wiser because they don't share mum and dad

Scientists from Australia and Scotland have found that firstborns may have better thinking skills and higher IQs because their parents gave them more mental stimulation in their early years.

Who you love shouldn't make you depressed, but everybody else might

Being gay doesn't have to mean a life sentence of unhappiness, if homosexual and bisexual Australians are raised in a loving, accepting family, a new study shows.

Government stalls funding for life-saving cystic fibrosis drug for children

Little Anna dances around her room, stealing hearts with playful pouts that break into cheeky grins.

The summer I … spent New Year's Eve in detox

I think of my fellow patients' life stories – the sexual abuse, the beatings, the dead children, the loss or lack of love. Not one hadn't gone through some kind of trauma or mental illness. I shake my head at the people who want to cut off our welfare. Sterilise us. Shoot us.

Schools evacuated across Australia over threatening phone calls

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Several schools across Australia and New Zealand have been evacuated after receiving threatening phone calls on Thursday morning. Police suspect a hoax.

Women's footy fans take their boots off to send AFL message on pay offer

Women's footy fans are posting photos of their shoeless feet on social media in solidarity with players who will not have their boots paid for as part of the AFL's pay deal.

Australian cattle 'killed with sledgehammers' in Vietnam

Distressing footage appearing to show Australian cattle being bludgeoned to death with sledgehammers in Vietnam has sparked renewed calls to ban live cattle exports.