The growing abuse of the commonly prescribed anxiety and insomnia drug alprazolam has led the peak body for drug regulation in Australia to more tightly restrict its prescription.
A surprising tactic to fight anorexia
Research suggests anorexia sufferers may fare better if doctors stop trying to get them to gain weight and put their focus elsewhere.
Lifestyle secrets of the world's healthiest countries
Australia is up there with the world's fattest countries. What are the thinner, healthier countries doing right?
Feeding the soul gives new hope to anorexics
Weight can become the whole world in anorexia, with every gram lost and gained the subject of intense focus. But new research has found people with severe and treatment-resistant anorexia, which kills one in five sufferers, may fare better if their doctors stop trying to get them to gain weight.
What non-parents 'unlike' about parents
There are lots of annoying people on Facebook. Us parents are among them.
Why processed meat is on the nose
The life of a fat cell is not as simple as it looks
Life inside a fat cell may be as complex as the universe itself.
Limited options upset medical students
The ACT Health Directorate has been accused of bullying final-year ANU medical students.
Meet the millennials
The children born at the turn of the century are switched on like never before, writes Rachel Browne.
Better healthcare needed for immigrant mothers-to-be
Gauri Kashelkar could not be more grateful that Devdatta, her barely two-week old boy, was born in Sydney. Mrs Kashelkar is from India and she and her husband, Peter, moved to Australia around three years ago.