Older men with less male sex hormone testosterone could be more prone to depression, research suggests.

A new report shows the obesity epidemic is reducing the life expectancy of Australians.

The Commonwealth's intervention measures in remote communities are fuelling the increased use of marijuana, a new study out today says.

Average hospital waiting times have risen under Labour, figures obtained by the BBC News website show.

A new report shows the obesity epidemic is reducing the life expectancy of Australians.

Researchers say skin secretions from a South American frog could be used to treat type 2 diabetes.

The Victorian Medical Practitioners Board has apologised for not doing more to protect patients who were raped and indecently assaulted by a Preston dermatologist.

The New South Wales Opposition has seized on the return to work of a Bathurst hospital planner, who was sacked by the Health Minister, as a further sign of the State Government's incompetence.

The Greater Southern Area Health Service has moved to reassure the community of Hay, in south-west New South Wales, that the local hospital is adequately staffed with doctors.

An education program is aiming to deter teenagers from smoking with talks by people who have had their voice boxes removed because of cancer.

The Queensland Nurses Union says its members are considering quitting their posts in the Torres Strait after one of their colleagues was raped while working on a remote island.

The Federal Government has promised to spend $100,000 to examine the best way to care for people in the Northern Territory's Groote Eylandt region who have Machado-Joseph disease.

Ethan Zuckerman was blogging biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey's presentation at the BIL conference. Scroll down in his post for that section: Gerontologist Aubrey de Grey has spoken at TED previously, and presented this year at TED University, a preconference

U.S. universities may no longer need to wrestle with the ethical dilemma of accepting funding from tobacco company Philip Morris: the firm has announced that it is ending its external research grant program.

Not only can't you drink your troubles away, but ethanol actually reinforces memories, according to Japanese scientists.

The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Center and attacked the Pentagon were pikers compared to the tobacco industry, which is responsible for the deaths of 30 million people since 2001, according to the antismoking group ASH.

The hydrogen peroxide in cigarette smoke causes cells in the lungs to become cancerous, according to new research from the University of California at Davis.

Background:Since transport evokes physiological adjustments that include endocrine responses, the objective of this study was to examine the responses of circulating beta-endorphin, adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH)and cortisol levels to transport stress in stallions. Methods:Forty-two healthy Thoroughbred and crossbred stallions were studied

Background:The evolution of disease resistance and immune function may be limited if increased immunocompetence comes at the expense of other fitness-determining traits. Both the maintenance of an immune system and the deployment of an immune response can be costly, and

Background:The effects of viral infection involve concomitant plant gene variations and cellular changes. A simple system is required to assess the complexity of host responses to viral infection. The genome of the Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) is a single-stranded