HEALTH

With ideas as varied as velcro ties to see-through toasters Australians are coming up with wild and wonderful ways to make daily life a little bit easier as entries pour in to the National Stroke Foundation's inaugural Stroke of Genius competition.

A county court has ordered a surgeon to pay a Victorian woman $133,000 as compensation for damaging her breast in a reconstructive operation in April 2004.

A man who died Wednesday possibly from Lyme disease will be autopsied on orders of the Supreme Court to determine if the bacterial infection that affects the brain is the cause of his death.

One in four Australian aged 16 to 24 have mental disorder in 2009, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Children and young adults who were conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) have a slightly increased risk of developing cancer, relative to those conceived naturally, researchers from Sweden reported Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

There is little need to worry about serious side effects if your toddler is getting vaccinated against whooping cough, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.

Bill Clinton and Bill Gates urged AIDS activists on Monday to squeeze value out of every cent of funds to fight HIV, saying they could not expect donors to give more in hard times unless it was carefully spent.

NSW Chief Health Officer Dr. Kerry Chant urged people to get vaccinated against influenza starting today.

Good Guys chain head Andrew Muir has announced the creation of a new foundation that will deploy stationary and mobile kitchens around the country to teach healthy cooking to Australians.

The NSW police have asked the Sydney council to establish 19 more alcohol-free zones to address the increasing number of non-residents getting involved in alcohol-related assaults.

Hopes sank that the first new prescription weight-loss pill in more than a decade would be approved for sale when a key federal advisory panel rejected the drug on Thursday amid lingering safety concerns.

U.S. health experts recommended Wednesday that GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) diabetes drug Avandia still be sold despite the heart attack risk it poses to patient.

University of Queensland's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) will produce antibodies for the animal virus Hendra under an accord with Queensland Health and an American foundation.

Kim Snowball, the new health chief of Western Australia, defended his annual salary package of $541,000 to his New South Wales counterpart's $413,000

An ambulance patient taken to the Kings County Hospital on Sunday night apparently left a bedbug inside the van forcing the hospital to fumigate part of the emergency room as a precaution against infestation.

Three pharmaceutical companies are vying to get the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval for their anti-obesity pills.

BOTOX or botulinum toxin type A has been licensed worldwide as a preventative treatment for chronic migraine.

Decorative or circle contact lenses similar to those used by rock star Lady Gaga may pose harm to teenagers copying her wide-eyed doll look, according to a warning from American eye experts.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a public warning on the use of the weight loss herbal supplement Que She.

Two recent studies linking the diabetes drug Avandia to heart ailments prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to consider withdrawing it from the market.

The demand for legal synthetic marijuana known as K2 is on the rise in the U.S. prompting Missouri to ban the use of the drug.

The California Department of Public Health has reported that whooping cough incidents in the state in June is four times higher than last year and declared an epidemic.

A June survey of 500 GPs across Australia showed that 88 percent are against the government's plan to pay them to treat patients with diabetes.

Australia's top expert on HIV and AIDS has warned of a rolling holocaust facing the world as the pandemic kills two million people each year and many are denied treatment

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have chemically tested seafood from the oil spill-marred Gulf of Mexico and found them to be free from contaminants.

American scientists have stumbled on a technique to restore the motor skills of Parkinson's sufferers by lighting genetically created pathways in the brain that control body movement.

An eye expert from the University of Sydney's Vision Centre said Wednesday that watching 3D TV for a few hours each day will not damage the eyes nor affect one's depth of perception.

A woman, whose face was severely burned during the bombing of trains and buses in London five years ago, showed her new, healed face to the public on Tuesday.

British researchers are claiming that an unmade bed is good for the health because house dust mites don't survive on it thereby minimizing or eliminating allergens that trigger asthma and allergies.