Doctors are sometimes not the best at giving patients an accurate or realistic prognosis about a disease. Yet someone with a cancer diagnosis will most often want to know 'how long have I got'. A US site called cancersurvivalrates.com aims to give patient

Most heart research has been into men but heart disease kills about five times more women than breast cancer. An international study looking at large numbers of genes working together found that women present their own genetic patterns and it has major im

Urinary tract infections, are common but there's often confusion on how best to treat them. Antibiotics may help, but to what extent? New research has brought together the most reliable evidence on treating UTIs to see what's appropriate, and when.

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Australia is generally a good place to have a baby, but Indigenous babies are more likely to be born prematurely, and their mums are less likely to attend medical appointments during pregnancy or be breastfeeding by the time they leave hospital. Aborigina

Residential aged care has been in a state of crisis for years over serious quality and safety issues and we await the Federal Government's detailed response to the Royal Commission's recommendations. But there could be a fairly simple fix for the some of

Residential aged care has been in a state of crisis for years over serious quality and safety issues and we await the Federal Government's detailed response to the Royal Commission's recommendations. But there could be a fairly simple fix for the some of

Alzheimer's disease is hard to diagnose definitively because it relies on seeing particular pathology in the brain - a collection of a protein called amyloid and another called tau around the nerves. This makes it difficult to test treatments, and to pred

Alzheimer's disease is hard to diagnose definitively because it relies on seeing particular pathology in the brain - a collection of a protein called amyloid and another called tau around the nerves. This makes it difficult to test treatments, and to pred

Arthritis is a well-known problem, and arthritis located at the base of the thumb has been studied by a group at the University of Sydney, with an aim to improve effective treatment and care.