AAP - 12-12-2016

Women born very premature, before 32 weeks, are 2.3 cm shorter on average as adults than their sisters born at term, according to a new international study.

AAP - 06-12-2016

Researchers have for the first time calculated Australia's contribution to the environmental and health problem of nitrogen pollution. Protein

AAP - 02-12-2016

Rosemary Stanton says MasterChef has done much to get kids into the kitchen and now a Sydney academic suggests cooking shows could be used to fight obesity.

AAP - 01-12-2016

The Cancer Council says it only takes a few minutes outside for sun damage to begin, yet people are still making excuses for getting sunburnt.

AAP - 30-11-2016

A new HIV prevention drug, pre-exposure prophylaxis, will be trialled in South Australia, the state government says. The South Australian government

AAP - 28-11-2016

Doctors are warning of the serious, and even potentially deadly, risks the increasingly popular 'jelly' beads pose to a child's health.

AAP - 25-11-2016

Light alcohol consumption may reduce a person's risk of the most common type of stroke but heavy drinking significantly increases the risk, new research shows.

AAP - 21-11-2016

Cancer patients in the Northern Territory should have access to a long-awaited PET scanner in May 2018, eight years after it was first promised by politicians.

AAP - 14-11-2016

A large global study of 55,000 participants has found the odds are not stacked against you if you have a strong genetic link to heart disease.

AAP - 09-11-2016

A US study has found vaping teens are at greater risk of smoking 'real' tobacco cigarettes more often, raising the concern of Cancer Council Australia.