Experts are worried over the fact that use of recreational drugs during sex, particularly gay sex, can lead to HIV and hepatitis infections. Doctors have warned that new chemsex drugs such as mephedrone and GHB, methamphetamine (ice) and gamma hydroxybutyrate may lead to improper condom use, increase in promiscuity and high-risk sexual practices.
Ritwik Roy
Jun 09, 2016
The Cambridge Weight Plan, Australia’s new fad diet, is now being investigated by a government regulator to find out if the product can be legally sold in Australia. Health experts have already warned of serious side-effects such as general feeling of coldness, rash, nausea, leg cramps, hair loss, halted periods and even unexpected pregnancy from following a diet so low on nutrients.
Ritwik Roy
Jun 06, 2016
Breast Cancer Care, a British charity organisation, has warned that women aged between 50 and 70 are too reliant on mammograms for detecting breast cancer signs.
Ritwik Roy
May 23, 2016
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has lodged an appeal against the size of fine imposed by the Federal Court on Nurofen makers Reckitt Benckiser for breach of consumer laws.
Ritwik Roy
May 23, 2016
E-cigarettes will be treated as tobacco in Victoria. The Victorian Government is extending the smoking ban to e-cigarettes too.
Ritwik Roy
May 21, 2016
Patients who had the magic mushrooms experienced a reduction in symptoms after a week. Eight of the 12 patients achieved full remission and were liberated from their depression temporarily.
Ritwik Roy
May 18, 2016
Experts emphasised on the importance of preventive measures and the need for better weight management services. More research into alternative interventions is also crucial to take care of severe obesity.
Ritwik Roy
May 13, 2016
Australians have negative stereotypes associated with strength-training. People look at these activities as super-masculine, and women believe they will put on a lot of weight.
Ritwik Roy
May 11, 2016
The study should not be used as an escape route for not taking action against air pollution. If people start using “active transport” more, then pollution levels will come down automatically.
Ritwik Roy
May 07, 2016
The researchers stumbled upon a vital supply route cancer cells use to obtain their nutrients. This discovery can lead to new treatments to stop tumour growth.
Ritwik Roy
May 06, 2016
Insulin resistance is a major problem for those who have cardiovascular diseases. The researchers analysed a national sample of adults and included dietary and lifestyle factors and team/coffee consumption.
Ritwik Roy
Apr 30, 2016
Human trials of the test have provided a 95 percent accuracy rate by picking up the key biological marker in the blood stream of a Parkinson’s patient.
Ritwik Roy
Apr 20, 2016
Another Johnson & Johnson baby powder trial begins on Monday on a lawsuit filed by a woman who used the talc for 40 years and diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2011.
Vittorio Hernandez
Apr 07, 2016
Actress Whoopi Goldberg was greatly affected to see her granddaughters suffer from menstrual pain and so she made it an objective to work on the lines of medical marijuana.
Ritwik Roy
Mar 31, 2016
Although the father was wrong and went against law to use cannabis oil on his little daughter, Justice Peter Flanagan decided to not record a criminal conviction.
Ritwik Roy
Mar 27, 2016
Scientists, after administering the initial dose in the HIV monkeys, injected them again on the fourth, seventh and 10th days. The virus disappeared and never came back after two weeks.
Ritwik Roy
Mar 24, 2016
An astounding 63.4 percent of Australian adults were obese or overweight in 2014-2015. It’s well over half Australia’s national population and almost two in three adults.
Ritwik Roy
Feb 25, 2016
The Australian Federal Government has already spent more than $100 million in the past two years in a bid to combat weight gain and obesity.
Ritwik Roy
Feb 23, 2016
Although significant medical research has transformed HIV/AIDS from being a terminal disease to being a manageable condition, the stubbornness and persistence of HIV infection is a major concern.
Ritwik Roy
Feb 17, 2016
According to Cancer Council Queensland, in 1982, there were 8,274 cancer cases, and in 2013, it rose to 26,335.
Ritwik Roy
Feb 16, 2016
A Catholic pro-choice group has appealed to Pope Francis to stop condemning the use of contraception and abortions as the Zika virus, which affects babies, continues to spread around the world.
Tess Green
Feb 11, 2016
A woman developed a hump back after years of alcoholism but refused to see a doctor for five years, post the condition, as she found it cool.
Ritwik Roy
Feb 09, 2016
The cannabis study suggests that for every five years of marijuana exposure, a user forgets one word from a list of 15, compared to one who doesn't smoke cannabis.
Ritwik Roy
Feb 07, 2016
Taking a step forward towards cancer treatment, scientists, using a new cancer test ONCOblot®, detected a molecular marker indicative of the presence of mesothelioma, 4-10 years in advance of the symptoms appearing.
Ritwik Roy
Feb 05, 2016
Drugs used in antiretroviral therapy that help in HIV cure make patients obese or overweight, and drug therapy may bring down HIV numbers to undetectable levels but never cure completely.
Ritwik Roy
Feb 04, 2016
The doctors will start a synthetic cannabis medical trial on 10 Victorian children who suffer from severe epilepsy.
Ritwik Roy
Feb 03, 2016
Although party drug ketamine has proven to be highly effective in treating severe depression, more research is needed to better understand its long-term benefits and risks.
Ritwik Roy
Feb 03, 2016
Panic is spreading fast with the spread of Zika virus in the West and health experts are increasingly urging pregnant women to stop travelling to zika-infected countries.
Ritwik Roy
Feb 02, 2016
In a schizophrenia breakthrough, scientists discovered that a spike in single gene C4 dramatically increases a person’s risk of developing schizophrenia.
Ritwik Roy
Jan 29, 2016
Sedentary women suffer more severe menopause symptoms than active women and a Latin American study has linked sedentary lifestyle to a plethora of health problems.
Ritwik Roy
Jan 28, 2016
