While there's a national bowel cancer screening programme, people with strong family histories of colorectal cancer are usually diverted to more active colonoscopy surveillance. Research using Swed

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Borderline Personality Disorder is one of the most stigmatised and misunderstood mental health conditions. It affects a significant number of people in the community, a large proportion of them havi

Over the past 18 months science has been scrambling to make sense of the pandemic – how much do lockdowns help or harm?

We're constantly told how good exercise is for us. It builds muscle, strengthens our bones, and helps our heart stay healthy.

Research published in the British Medical Journal has seriously questioned the effectiveness of common orthopaedic operations and procedures.

One of the most toxic risk factors for your brain, heart and kidneys is high blood pressure and while globally one in three men and women have high blood pressure, a high proportion don't have it unde

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At the beginning of the COVID vaccine rollout, the Federal Government gave Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people priority access to vaccination. They recognised that existing health inequalitie

Bad as COVID has been, there's no pandemic in history that's come close to the devastation of plague - at least in what's called the second plague pandemic, better known as the Black Death. It took o