Health Checks

Alcohol and the sun could prove a lethal combination in developing skin cancer, with tattoos also proving an additional risk factor for the deadly...

Sixteen years ago, Lynette Mayne had cataract surgery, which involves removal of the eye's clouded lens and replacement with an artificial one, on both...

Black Dog Institute is reaching out to those who have been left feeling unable to cope following the pandemic. Whether it is because you have...

More than 40% of new cancer cases are linked to lifestyle factors, and about one third of all cancers are preventable through a healthy...

A new report by social demographer Bernard Salt reveals a rising rate of bowel cancer among Generation Xers, notably from age 45. The report calls...

Worried about a dodgy-looking mole or other skin lesions, but you're stuck in Covid lockdown or living in a remote area? A new contactless service,...

At present, the most common aid to early detection of prostate cancer is the prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test. But studies clearly show that...

A new Australian study has found the rates of bowel cancer in people under 50 continue to rise, supporting Bowel Cancer Australia’s Never2Young campaign...

Six years later, Sydney councillor Dai Le still remembers the shock of the diagnosis like it was yesterday. Fit and seemingly healthy, she’d just finished...

It started with the interrogation over the phone. ‘Had I been overseas recently?’ the receptionist queried. “Had I been in contact with anyone who has,...