Esther Han

Esther Han

Esther Han is a health reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald. Before that, she spent three years as Fairfax Media's consumer affairs editor. She has also covered food and wine.

Professor Georgina Long, right, with clinical trial participant Renae Aslanis outside the Melanoma Institute Australia's ...

For the first time, melanoma deaths could start to fall

'Extremely important' findings by Australian researchers give melanoma patients a new lease on life.

Maddy was diagnosed with leukaemia when she was five. With the help of MRD testing, she's now in remission.

Doctors are trying to stop the 'cure' from becoming a cause of cancer

Many survivors of childhood cancers have to live with horrible side effects of the treatments that cured them, including infertility and heart disease.

The research found that wounds treated with UMF 20 honey daily for as little as 12 days healed faster than wounds ...

This is how fast manuka honey can heal wounds

Researchers applied different types of honey on large wounds to see which one is the superior healing agent. One stood out.

Spring is here and health experts are urging people with asthma to be prepared.

Thunderstorm asthma warning for NSW

A freak storm event last year triggered thousands of asthma attacks and killed nine people. It could be in NSW, and authorities are urging people to be prepared.

Evie Weir, 6, who is fighting cancer, with her sister, Alicia, 8 in Sydney.

After a 'beautiful' year without cancer, doctors found a spot in Evie's head

Cancer is the leading cause of death of Australian children, by disease. But only a tiny percentage of government funding goes to this research area.

Singer and actor Selena Gomez is one of the executive producers of the Netflix series <I>13 Reasons Why</I>.

Psychologist: 'Selena Gomez has blood on her hands'

A prominent psychologist says that Selena Gomez, an executive producer of controversial drama 13 Reasons Why, has blood on her hands.

Whole genome sequencing was first used in 2015 after 37 people became infected with a rare form of salmonellosis ...

'Exciting': The plan to slash food poisonings by a third in NSW

In what's being described as a significant breakthrough, food and health authorities are now using whole genome sequencing to identify and control food-borne outbreaks.

Marco Matillano is part of a PrEP trial in NSW.

'I'll never make that mistake again': The drug that slashed Sydney's HIV rate

NSW is on track to virtually eliminate HIV transmissions by 2020.

Salt levels vary wildly between pasta sauce brands - use packaging's "per 100 grams" column to compare products.

The pasta sauce with 90 times more salt than the best options

One popular pasta sauce contains 90 times more salt than some of its rivals on the supermarket shelf.

The number and annual rate of chlamydia notifications in NSW has increased.

Gonorrhoea and chlamydia cases on the rise

With cases of sexually transmissible infections on the increase, health authorities are urging people to use condoms.

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