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All five experts said BMI is not ideal for determining the health of your weight.
Associated with intimate partner violence, there are many ways in which reproductive choice is taken away from women.
Sexual assault in the workplace (and beyond) has many negative health benefits. It needs to be treated as a health and safety issue.
There may be additional long-term health harms from antibiotic exposure in early life and before birth, including an increased risk of infection, obesity and asthma.
Preparing healthy meals can be difficult. Here’s what a doctor recommends.
An unfairness in how Australia’s mental health care is delivered can be seen in our data. The areas with the most need aren’t getting the right amount of funding, or services.
An online medical appointment booking organisation was sharing personal information about the users of their platform with a plaintiff law firm.
Gardening not only provides nutritious food, but a reminder of home for refugees.
Even though people with autism are more likely to think about concrete stuff rather than abstract feelings, anxiety still exists and, if not recognised, can cause significant problems.
Gestational diabetes should be seen as an opportunity to identify families at higher risk of metabolic problems and take action.
For some people, self-weighing could be the key to losing or keeping weight off; while for others, it may do harm.
A new study has found too few Indigenous people are getting health checks, despite their elevated risk of heart problems.
Many people have an appearance of dark circles on the lower eyelids, and they have many different causes.
Reporting of recent studies may have caused alarm that brain injuries cause dementia. It just increases your risk.
Alcohol has several negative effects on post-exercise recovery and rehydration, and should be avoided after sport and exercise
Disease and disorders can affect how we see. Can the images in painted artworks tell us something about the state of an artist’s vision?
Haemorrhoids can be painful, and may sometimes require surgery. We don’t know exactly why they can become problematic but there are some things you can do to reduce the risk of getting them.
If your child has a problem with defiant behaviours, there are a number of things you can do to avoid standoffs and reduce the chance of meltdowns. Here’s how.
Doctors may say you’re “too old” for surgery, but what they actually mean is too frail.
Doctor communication is an important part of their education. But they can’t have unlimited empathy for their patients either, or they’d never get the job done.
Probiotics have been proclaimed by many as the answer to all sorts of health issues and conditions. But what exactly are probiotics? And, more importantly, should you be taking them?
New guidelines outline language practitioners should use when caring for transgender kids.
New research has discovered brain receptors that sense heat also play a hand in appetite.
If you haven’t had kids you probably haven’t given much thought to your pelvic floor muscles. But 5 out of 5 experts say all women should regularly exercise them.