Swimming is a great workout, whatever your age or fitness ability.
Omega-3 and brain function
The sick used to fill budget black hole, says AMA
Patient advocates say cuts to health spending will lead to higher out-of-pocket costs for consumers, while doctors have accused the government of targeting the sick to reduce the budget deficit.
Shot in the arm for mission to take stem cells from embryos
Scientists have used caffeine to achieve a stem cell breakthrough that many researchers thought impossible but which could lead to new therapies for many crippling diseases.
Preventive surgery given low priority in public hospitals
Australian women are waiting up to two years to have the surgery Angelina Jolie had to reduce her high chance of breast cancer, and doctors fear these waiting times could increase.
‘It wasn’t a matter of if I’d get cancer’
Sisters both have double mastectomies
'I can take any diet and tear it apart'
Ballet gets to grips with its inner sole
Jolie admission could prompt more cancer tests
An announcement by Angelina Jolie that she has had a preventative double mastectomy is likely to encourage more Australian women to test for breast cancer gene mutations, cancer groups said.

