Health Checks

At her lowest moments, you could hear it in Mum's voice that she was getting a little miffed by my regular phone calls to...

So, I’m not going to sleep for this colonoscopy procedure…at all? I guess should have asked that question long before they wheeled me into the...

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...

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...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support in the wake of her breast cancer diagnosis. Since the 56-year-old star of Seinfeld, and more...

It was my slightly older cousin who first put the fear of God into me about what could lie in store with my ticker. Only...

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,...

Come on guys, we can do a lot better than this when it comes to bowel cancer testing. Eighty Australians die every month from the...

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...

Aside from accidentally realising in my late 40s that I actually needed reading glasses after all, my eyes have served me well. I put that...