In medicine, too much or too little of something is usually a problem. Excess hormones, excess knees, hospital excess - all of these things can be a genuine pain in the butt. For ages, [...]
If you don’t already have enough to worry about, have you ever thought about how stress is really bad for you? We usually think of stress as a mental thing, but the feeling of [...]
It feels hypocritical to warn you about buying testosterone online when testosterone replacement therapy has made such a huge difference in my life. The benefit for me was instant – better energy, better mood, [...]
It turns out that when it comes to fertility, size does matter – but maybe not in the way we all assumed. Every day it feels like there’s some new advice for would-be dads [...]
While other journalists might be on the hunt for a cushy job, Ania Stepien is on a different mission—she’s searching for a Cushing's job. Cushing’s disease is a rare condition that can take years [...]
Obesity is a chronic health condition affecting nearly a third of Australians. As a risk factor for illness and death it’s second only to smoking. Holding excess weight has been linked to 30 diseases [...]
A new drug to treat Type 2 Diabetes has been approved by Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration and is now available in Australian pharmacies. Australia now joins the US, the EU and Canada in offering [...]
For years, people taking testosterone replacement therapy were advised that it could be bad for their hearts and lead to troubled tickers down the road. However, a new study has found that older men [...]
Gail Risbridger Junior Scientist Award Winner Ben Lawrence When he’s not cheering on the Newcastle Jets or hanging out with his black labrador Mabel, Ben Lawrence is in the lab and kicking goals with [...]
In a world without microscopes, diseases were known by their observable symptoms. Unbeknownst to the Ancient Greek physicians who coined the term, the name ‘diabetes’ (meaning ‘a siphon passing water’) lumped together several conditions [...]
