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A recent study found a coaching program is effective in treating the symptoms of chronic fatigue. So was the study robust?
People generally assume all heart-related death is due to heart attack. But there are differences between cardiac arrest, heart attack and heart failure – and none are synonymous with death.
The more you exercise, the more your body adapts to it. Here’s how you can improve the gains from your training.
Dissociative identity disorder - previously known as multiple personality disorder - occurs when a child’s development is disrupted by trauma, preventing them forming a strong sense of self.
The Victorian law provides if a child has made a valid advance directive including instructions to refuse a particular medical treatment, a health practitioner must not provide that treatment.
We’re being ‘nudged’ to make good health choices every day. But who decides what’s best? And what happens when we don’t agree?
One person with a given diagnosis can be entirely different, symptomatically speaking, from another with the same diagnosis.
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine discovered how our internal body clock works.
Rare cancers are hard to research given the few patients that have each type of cancer, so how can we improve treatment for these patients?
We know overuse and inappropriate use of antibiotics contribute to resistance, so it’s important we develop strategies to improve practice.
Studies have found paying people to quit is more effective than other methods, so why are we not considering it in Australia?
Many of the online testimonials you might read for dentists and other health professional can not only mislead, they can be illegal.
A new study has been found that television viewing increases your risk of dying from an inflammatory-related condition like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease. But it’s more complicated than that.
Many of us would have seen, if not tried, various products claiming to clean the dirt out of our pores. But do we need to?
Younus, age 9, wants to know how people become allergic to food.
Can you blame bad teeth on your genes? Here’s why the answer is not as simple as you might think.
A landmark study in the UK discovered the gene that allows cells to form into embryos. If Australian researchers attempted this they could go to jail for 15 years.
There are some myths about dying that perhaps unexpectedly harm the dying person and deserve scrutiny.
If you’re 45 or older and have depression, new research suggests you may need to ask for a heart check when you next see your doctor.
To explain why we have a mitochondria, we have to go back about two billion years to a time when none of the complexity of life as we see it today existed.
A vaccine recommendation from a health professional and convenient access will make the biggest difference to uptake.
Exercise practitioners are taught to help us set goals to get active. But the way we set goals may be unhelpful, or worse, make it even harder for us to exercise.
Australia was ranked top of the world in terms of the efficiency of our health care system and health outcomes, but only seventh in terms of equity.
The hallmark of a Buruli ulcer is a sore, usually on the legs or arms, which slowly enlarges over weeks to months.