It took scientists 13 years to learn how to sequence the first human genome, but today it can be done in a matter of hours.

Where did this flu come from, what made it so devastating, and what lessons can we learn from it for when the next pandemic arrives?

Soccer players who head the ball a lot — and we're talking more than a thousand headers a year — had poorer verbal memory in one study.

A common, cheap medication which is used to control diabetes may also reduce cognitive decline and the incidence of dementia.

A consortium of Australian universities and research centres have just published the results of a randomised trial into a cocktail of non-drug interventions to see if they help people whose thinking and memory are impaired or declining.

From the initial rumblings of a mysterious pneumonia in the Chinese city of Wuhan, to physical distancing, cities on lockdown, more than 70 million cases and 1.6 million deaths.

If ever there was a year that showcased the importance of health and medical research, it was 2020.

The study was a massive supermarket survey of 60,000 food products over four to six years following the formulation of foods with and without star ratings.

Women often complain of mental fog, problems with memory and sharpness of thinking when they're pregnant and sometimes in the early days of babyhood.

Young Australians aged 16-33 who were maltreated in their early years have more than double the chance of dying at those ages compared to people who weren't maltreated.