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Hypnosis helps sufferers of IBS

Hypnotherapy helps up to three quarters of IBS patients, with results lasting up to five years.

Midwifery care costs less and delivers equally safe care

Midwifery care is more cost effective and just as safe as standard hospital care, according to a world-first study.

Spring clean your health

With winter now behind us, it’s time to give your health a spring-clean with these simple seasonal wellbeing tips.

Asthma Awareness Week: Sam’s Story

As Asthma Awareness Week kicks off, so too does asthma season, with parents urged to devise management plans for kids.

Free yourself from makeup

Shockingly, more than 90 per cent of women don’t consider themselves beautiful! Would you go makeup free for the day?

The copper dilemma

Researchers are divided over the risks versus the benefits that copper has for our overall brain health.

3D foot scanner reveals health risks for high-heel fashion slaves

The health risks for high-heel wearers are known. But now 3D scans can show them exactly what damage they’re doing.

Cocoa keeps brain healthy, improves memory

Drinking cocoa daily could help improve memory function and overall brain health.

Get Checked: The Essential Health Tests He Needs

In the developed world women live longer than their male counterparts. Here is our list of essential male health tests…

Drinking coffee halves risk of suicide in adults

Drinking three to four cups of coffee a day reduces the risk of suicide by about 50 per cent.

Fennel helps alleviate PMT

Drops made with fennel seeds could help women overcome the monthly melancholy of pre-menstrual tension.

Do you carry the “hunger gene”?

Do you always find room for dessert or seconds? You could be living with the “hunger gene”, along with more than half of the population.

Is your child getting enough sleep?

Is your child lacking energy or gaining weight unexpectedly? They may be sleep-deprived.

Kitchen pharmacy

Food doesn’t only warm the heart and nourish the soul it can also be a prescription for life, Leesa Oates explains. She also shares a recipe for a flu-banishing tea.

Joint effort

High-impact activities such as running and jumping can speed up the progression of arthritis.

A guide to safe plastics

A little food-storage-know-how goes a long way to finding the safest plastic for the job.

Third-hand smoke causes harmful DNA damage

Scientists warn: lingering nicotine exposure from third-hand smoke is carcinogenic.

HPV vaccine halves rate of infection for US teens

An Australian-created cervical cancer vaccine has helped to halve the number of HPV infections in female teens in the US.

Cancer not a modern disease

A 120,000-year-old Neanderthal fossil displaying signs of a tumour may provide clues to cancer’s origins.

Painkillers pose heart risk

Do you reach for painkillers often? You may want to consider the consequences for your heart, researchers warn.

Dry July

Brett MacDonald and his friends were fairly heavy drinkers until one day they set themselves the challenge to abstain from alcohol for a whole month, and so Dry July was born. Five years later the campaign has gone national and raised more than $11 million to date.

Blood donation incentives

A new study, which found blood donations increase with gift incentives, could have a positive impact on low rates of blood donation globally.

Bunions caused by family not footwear

When it comes to developing unsightly and uncomfortable bunions, it seems family – not footwear — are to blame.

Illicit drug use linked to brain abnormalities

A high rate of illegal drug use could see an alarming rise in Parkinson’s disease for users later on.

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