Health Times - 18-07-2017

Today, almost two in every three Australian adults are overweight or obese, as is one in four children. Obesity is a disease itself and a risk factor linked to ischaemic heart

AAP - 10-07-2017

Swimming champion Libby Trickett is calling on Australians to register for a Jeans for Genes Day and join the movement to cure childhood cancer.

HealthTimes - 06-07-2017

Switching off a protein produced in breast cancer cells can stop cancer progression, researchers from The University of Queensland have  found. Dr

AAP - 27-06-2017

Participating in the national bowel cancer home screening program is the best decision a person can make to prevent dying from bowel cancer.

HealthTimes - 22-06-2017

Regional, rural and remote bowel cancer patients experience poorer survival rates and less optimal clinical management than those living in metro areas, new research by Cancer

AAP - 21-06-2017

A long-term study has provided clinicians with "enormous power" to assess the cancer risk of women carrying the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations.

Karen Keast - 19-06-2017

Rural generalist nurses are administering chemotherapy under the supervision of specialist nurses as part of an innovative telehealth initiative in Queensland.

AAP - 14-06-2017

A new report shows cancer continues to have the biggest impact on Australia's health, costing the nation more years of life than any other disease group.

HealthTimes - 08-06-2017

Lung cancer patients who undertake one to four weeks of supervised exercise training before surgery have fewer post-surgery complications and go home earlier, a new systematic

AAP - 08-06-2017

An Australian-led trial has shown a new drug works in almost five times as many patients compared to standard therapy for a rare skin-related