In this article ACT pharmacist, Brad Butt, who established Mens Health Downunder, addresses the growing need for men to have access to professional expertise about their specific health issues and discusses how to know which is your best way forward with a prostate cancer diagnosis.

Dr Salar McModie, a Melbourne based and trained Neurologist at Knox Private Hospital, with over a decade of experience as a medical practitioner in Australia explains migraine causes, triggers and treatments.

Australian trained neurologist Dr Camilla Jozwik discusses acute and preventative migraine therapies to help treat the common and often disabling disease.

Urologist, Kieran Hart provides some background on the disease and discusses alternate and experimental treatments for prostate cancer depending on their suitability, encouraging men and their families to explore all resources before embarking on treatment.

This week, we took the time to speak with Zoe McArdle, Nurse Unit Manager for The Geelong Clinic, solely dedicated to psychiatric care. Women’s health week is the biggest week in Australia dedicated to good health and well-being for women and girls.

Healthscope will require its NSW staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and will work towards a national vaccination policy, the leading Australian healthcare group announced today.

There is no ‘official’ definition of a stroke. Doctors use the term ‘stroke’ to cover a broad range of disorders that occur related to the blood supply of the brain. Most strokes involve the blood supply going into an area of brain being blocked. Most of the remaining number involve bleeding into the brain or the area inside the skull outside the brain.

We encourage breastfeeding because of the health benefits for both mother and baby. Breast milk offers the ideal balance of nutrition in all the right proportions for the first six months of life and beyond. Even if mum’s diet is less than ideal, breastmilk will give baby the perfect diet. Breastmilk changes feed by feed and day by day to meet baby's needs without mum changing a thing.

You never forget some people. No matter how many lives I save or how many transplant surgeries I perform, there are special people and moments that will always live with me. These moments drive me to new challenges and to build legacies that really matter for people and communities.

To be called a scoliosis there must be at least 10° of angulation of curve evident in the coronal plane on a plain radiograph along with evidence of rotation of vertebral bodies. This is often only noticed clinically, usually by the family, when the curve is already well past this threshold. A curve of 10° is barely perceptible clinically and is often a radiological finding only on a chest x-ray taken for other reasons.