Diseases and Disorders

Beijing has launched a three-year plan to tackle obesity, with rates of overweight children and adults rapidly increasing in just a few years.

It's been nearly five years since the pandemic started, but COVID-19 doesn't take a break over the holidays. From shopping to socialising, here's how to avoid getting sick this festive season.

NRL took its toll on PJ Marsh's body. Fourteen years after retirement, he's suffering the long-term consequences and fears for young players who aren't educated on the risks of knocks to the head.

While many people may think they have "excessive flatulence", research suggests lots of farts are a sign of a healthy gut.

Hayley Van Hostauyen was 14 weeks pregnant with her daughter Sage when she was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, and now spends 20 hours a week on dialysis.

Mpox is a rare disease caused by infection with a virus in the same family as the one that causes smallpox.

Does disconnection with the ground cause us to become sicker? That's the idea behind the practice of "grounding" or "earthing" which is growing in popularity. We separate the science from the nonsense. 

Researchers say climate change has the potential to increase mosquito numbers and the transmissibility of mosquito-borne diseases. With some people more prone to mosquito bites than others, experts have reinforced the need to protect yourself from getting bitten.

At the end of his playing career, this ex-footballer's debilitating headaches, memory loss and anxiety sent him looking for answers. The answer was the repeated head trauma he experienced playing the game he loved.

Monitoring disease outbreaks, alerting the public and collaborating with state and federal governments are all duties the new CDC will take up. 

In the past 12 months, 80 people have contracted melioidosis in the Northern Territory, and five people have died. But researchers say a vaccine may not be far off.

Taryn Trepp was born with pulmonary hypertension and at 17 she was close to death. Fourteen years later, she's still friends with one of the doctors who saved her life. 

Doctors say scurvy, best associated with sailors' lack of fresh fruit and vegetables on long sea voyages, is a "re-emerging diagnosis" — partly due to cost-of-living pressures.

When 11-year-old Henri was hit on the head by a basketball, it began a 12-month medical ordeal.

High-profile Kiwi personalities have lent star power to a New Zealand campaign to combat social stigma around herpes.

Anthony Albanese faces criticism for making an ableist remark in parliament by using Tourette syndrome as an insult, drawing condemnation from both the Greens and the Coalition. Here is a recap of what was said and the facts about Tourette syndrome.

Jenna Fischer reveals she has been undergoing surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment for stage 1 triple-positive breast cancer after a diagnosis last year.

Australia has recorded its first cases of the XEC COVID-19 variant that has been spreading in Europe this year. Here's what you need to know about XEC — the highly transmissible strain that has been reported in 29 countries. 

A new study investigating the link between sleep and pain could fundamentally change the way doctors and clinicians treat people with chronic pain. 

In what Health Minister Shannon Fentiman is hailing as an Australian first, the free tests will be for Rhesus D Haemolytic Disease — a condition that can cause stillbirth.