The head of a cancer research institute has issued a warning to his faculty and staff - limit mobile phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.
The Beijing Olympics will be remembered for the abuse of legal performance-enhancing drugs, a leading Australian sports scientist says.
New Zealand parents of daughters with cancer have taken their girls to Australia to have eggs frozen, a child cancer specialist says.
Damaged sperm is a major problem for almost 60 per cent of Aussie men visiting fertility clinics, research shows.
About 3,000 Crohn's disease sufferers will be able to access a subsidised drug to treat the condition from next week.
One of the world's first IVF babies Rebecca Featherstone will be celebrating someone else's milestone this week - Briton Louise Brown's 30th birthday.
Sting and The Police have attracted the top price for their jeans at a charity auction in Sydney.
The Queensland government has defended its response to the Hendra virus, amid suggestions it could be to blame for the deaths of three horses.
The world's first pregnant man Thomas Beatie has shown off the baby daughter he gave birth to three weeks ago after 40 hours of labour.
The benefits of getting skin cancer checks are now beyond doubt, with research showing a scan cuts the risk of a deadly melanoma diagnosis by about 15 per cent.
A British school is cracking down on girls aspiring to the perma-tan look of celebrities like glamour model Jordan and her pop singer husband Peter Andre.
A potent new HIV drug has been found to dramatically decrease the presence of the virus in Australian patients who have failed on other treatments.
A secret list of 900 athletes suspected of using banned substances was the motivation for an attempt to gain access to their private medical records.
Speculation that new strains of the Hendra virus could eventually lead to human-to-human transmission has been dismissed by a medical expert as "irresponsible".
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