The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic gives us some clues.

Patient Zero is a new podcast from ABC Science and RN that tells the stories of disease outbreaks: where they begin, why they happen and how we found ourselves in the middle of a really big one.

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.

New research from Western Australia should make a difference to a lot of people heading for elective surgery — especially surgery that might involve blood loss and the risk of a blood transfusion

Current Australian physical activity guidelines recommend muscle strengthening exercises twice a week as part of your 150 minutes a week of moderate activity.

It turns out that SARS-CoV-2 can turn up in the skin and the disease may even be diagnosed from skin tests.

Why do so many people with COVID-19 report losing their sense of smell or taste?

According to an Australian study, young children with asthma are being either wrongly prescribed or over prescribed a costly, potentially non-beneficial and possibly harmful inhaler.

The vast majority of us will experience a bout of low back pain at least once during our lives and some of us will go on to having long term pain.

There's a new swab technique which could mean the eye-watering days are over.