If you have a dentist, she probably sends you a six monthly recall to come in for a check up. And you no doubt feel guilty if you don't go.

More men had surgery in the private system.

There are reports that monoclonal antibodies might work, that blocking the receptor for the virus might be promising and that the anti-parasitic medication ivermectin has not yet fallen out of the race.

The peak of the hayfever season is nearly upon us, which brings with it the risk of a thunderstorm asthma event.

Ninety per cent of bariatric surgery in Australia is performed in the private sector, which is a problem since obesity is more likely to affect people who lack economic resources.

Significant weight loss that's actually durable is elusive. The treatment that most reliably yields large, lasting weight loss is bariatric surgery – surgeries where the body's ability to take in or absorb food is dramatically reduced.

Data released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows the issue causing the greatest loss of productive years of life in 2019 was suicide.

One of the concerns during this pandemic is its effects on mental health and in particular the risk that people are so distressed or hopeless they feel the only way out is to take their own life.

Tongue cancer has typically been a disease of older men who are smokers and drinkers. But a new analysis of Australian data has found the cancer is on the rise in an unexpected group - younger women.

Australian researchers have published the findings from the world's first large, reliable study of a common skin tumour which is poorly recognised but can be scary.