How diets high in sugar and saturated fat could be harming your brain

Mar 06, 2017 13:09 pm UTC| Health

A lot of research has been conducted to establish the risks that a high energy diet high in saturated fat and sugar poses to our health. The most common known results of such diets include obesity, heart disease and...

Please don't do your own research on immunisation; you'll get it wrong

Mar 06, 2017 13:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Politics

Pauline Hanson has become the latest politician to flirt with the fringe view of immunisation denial. Of course, like all thoroughly modern anti-vaxers, she claims to be about choice and empowerment rather than denial of...

The Victorians are to blame for assumptions that self-harm is just attention-seeking

Mar 06, 2017 12:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

As I know from bitter experience, self-harm is often linked to a desire to seek attention. Whats the point in referring you? a GP once said to me, with obvious irritation, when I asked him for referral to a free, charity...

How traditional medicine can play a key role in Latino health care

Mar 06, 2017 02:31 am UTC| Health

In the U.S., many undocumented individuals and other vulnerable groups in the Latino immigrant population, such as indigenous language speakers, are already marginalized from mainstream health services. Increased scrutiny...

How new hepatitis C drugs could tackle liver cancer, too

Mar 06, 2017 02:27 am UTC| Health

Wider availability of newer hepatitis C drugs may not only lead to fewer cases of this blood-borne disease, but may also slow the rise in related liver cancer. But these so-called direct acting antiviral drugs have not...

Colonoscopy: nothing to fear from the 'silver stallion'

Mar 06, 2017 02:07 am UTC| Health

I recently had a colonoscopy, an invasive medical procedure to examine the bowel, and was hugely relieved to get the all-clear. I posted a description of my experience to my friends on Facebook and got a range of...

Now for some good news: regular sex benefits your mental health, too

Mar 03, 2017 06:09 am UTC| Health

Everyone has probably heard about the physical benefits of having sex (it helps the immune system, lowers blood pressure, burns calories). But are you aware of the long list of psychological benefits? Sex eases...