Megan Grisman is an activist and a cancer survivor. Soon she will add midwife to that list. After being diagnosed with breast cancer at 28 and again at 33, Grisman's battles have made her determined to enter the profession and ...

People with healthier lifestyles are less likely to develop depression, a new study that followed 1200 people over five years has found. The research, published in the journal Psychological Medicine, also found there was a tendency for those with a ...

Australians with chronic conditions are more likely to skip healthcare because of cost than their counterparts in Canada, the UK, Germany and France, new research suggests. The study found 1 in 4 chronically ill Australians is avoiding healthcare because of ...

Older Australians are using sleeping tablets for longer than what’s recommended but may want to stop altogether, recent research has found. The study, published in the journal Australian Family Physician, found that patients were often unaware of the side effects ...

People vulnerable to infection, among them the elderly, infants and pregnant women, are being warned to avoid eating rockmelon due to that spherical cantaloupe being linked to a salmonella outbreak. Food Standards Australia and New Zealand issued the following interdiction: ...

When Denise Moyle got the call for her first international aid mission, she was nervous, excited and a little scared about what was in front of her. Moyle ended up working on the perimeter of Kenya and Sudan, providing care ...