Journal

Chronic pain affects roughly one in five Australians, and reliance on opioid medications has become a national concern. After the Therapeutic Goods…

Medicinal mushrooms have moved from niche health-food shops into Australian supermarkets, cafés and home kitchens. Shiitake, oyster, enoki and lion’s mane are…

Mindfulness meditation is often presented as a simple way to feel calmer, yet its effects involve attention, stress physiology, emotional regulation and…

Walking into a busy health expo can feel like entering several conferences at once. One room may be discussing blood sugar, another mobility, and a third the…

A healthy relationship with food is less about following perfect rules and more about feeling comfortable, informed and flexible around eating. It means…

A men’s health check is often reduced to blood pressure, cholesterol and a quick conversation about lifestyle. Those measures matter, but they do not always…

Long hours at a laptop can leave the neck, shoulders, hips and lower back feeling stiff before the working day is over. The problem is rarely one particular…

Australia's relationship with the sun is famously complicated. We crowd beaches from Coogee to Cottesloe, grill snags in suburban backyards and chase the light…

Sitting across from a fertility specialist on the Sunshine Coast, I expected questions about menstrual cycles, blood tests, and stress. Instead, she reached…

Your liver works quietly around the clock to process nutrients, produce bile, store energy and help break down medicines, alcohol and other substances.…