The health effects of smoking on things like heart health and cancer risk are well known. But what about respiratory illness?

No, we're not talking about popcorn and choc-tops. How is food depicted on the silver screen and what sort of health star rating would most films get, if we were to score them? 

An astounding one in ten people worldwide will have all the criteria for an alcohol use disorder at some point during their lives. In Australia, that's thought to equate to half a million people per year.

Some people believe that low or moderate alcohol consumption is perfectly fine for the brain and might even reduce the risk of dementia.

The commonest cause of cancer death in Australia is lung cancer and the vast majority of malignant lung tumours are what's called non small-cell lung cancer.

Many experts agree that too many people are put on medications for blood pressure and cholesterol unnecessarily while others who really need them miss out.

If you have a child in your life, there's a decent chance they have an allergy, or asthma, or a skin condition like eczema.

If exercise was a drug, the manufacturer would make a fortune.

We look at what has happened in cancer care and research over the first two decades of the 21st century, a century which began with the first draft of the human genome and which promised all kinds of benefits for people with cancer.

In the year 2000, it was thought we were on the verge of a cure for dementia. Twenty years on, where do we stand?