If you’re a man facing separation and divorce, the way you respond to the crisis can make a big difference to your health. Full Story | Published 22/03/2007.
Anna Salleh is seduced by the Latin rhythms of salsa dancing. Not only is it sexy, it's great for your body and soul too. Full Story | Published 08/02/2007.
It's that time of year again when we solemnly promise to change our bad habits. Don't believe in resolutions? Well let us inspire you. Full Story | Published 20/12/2006.
Mismatched libidos need not mean the end of an otherwise good relationship, writes psychologist Nicky Ruscoe. Full Story | Published 25/10/2006.
Confused about whether you're supposed to eat less fat? No wonder. The 'fat is bad' message doesn't tell the full story. Full Story | Published 31/08/2006.
Memory - It's the curse of every person who's ever forgotten their passport but we'd be lost without it. How does memory work and can we make it better? Full Story | Published 24/08/2006.
Find out why compiling a family health history could save your life. Full Story | Published 29/06/2006.
Tibetan Buddhists have a daily mantra. Death is real, it comes without warning, this body will be a corpse. Here in the secular west, we consider regular contemplation of death to be morbid. Kathy Graham reminds us of our mortality. Full Story | Published 18/05/2006.
Is the air in our cities safe to breathe? New science about fine particle pollution has a dire warning for public health. This Catalyst special was followed by an online forum. Full Story | Published 04/05/2006.
Used and abused, caffeine is our favourite legal drug and the world's most popular drink. Take this quick quiz to find out how much you really know about caffeine. Full Story | Published 13/04/2006.
You might wake up with it, eat with it and sleep with it, but how well do you really know your body? Take the human body quiz to see how well you really know yourself - inside and out. Full Story | Published 16/03/2006.
Bird Flu is set to be the pandemic of our time. Are our emergency plans in place? How worried should we be? We asked for your questions and selected the most frequently asked and most intriguing ones. Here are the answers from some of Australia's top experts. Full Story | Published 09/03/2006.
The panic has started. Rumours about bird flu are spreading faster than the virus itself. How worried should you be? Plus: Test yourself with our bird flu quiz. Full Story | Published 23/02/2006.
Feeling anxious about how you look in those beach clothes? Wondering whether your sanity will survive the family dynamics? Don't despair: here's the Health Matters guide to keeping your cool over the holidays. Full Story | Published 22/12/2005.
Blokes have painted themselves as the innocent victims of premenstrual syndrome. But they seem to make their partners' symptoms worse. Full Story | Published 08/12/2005.
If you believe what you read, Australians are a sexy lot. We have sex at a younger age and with more partners than our parents, and if we had our way, we'd like to do it more often. But how do we know all this, and what does it mean? Jacquie van Santen investigates. Full Story | Published 01/12/2005.
Yoga is much more than contortionist poses and a supermodel butt. Kathy Graham finds out why more Australians than ever choose to twist like a pretzel and what science has to say about its many alleged health benefits. Full Story | Published 03/11/2005.
Since Tarzan first whacked a cloth around his loins and Jane first realised she might like some extra support while swinging through the trees, people have been searching for a better way to package their most precious possessions, Abbie Thomas reports. Full Story | Published 06/10/2005.
How much do you know about sex? Find out with our new sex quiz. Fifteen questions will test your knowledge of sex, health and relationships. Use your score to start a conversation! Full Story | Published 01/09/2005.
Deep down we're all addicts, but journalist Duncan McKimm discovers that our addictions turn out to be an ancient strategy for surviving, gone horribly wrong. Full Story | Published 14/07/2005.
Think you're too old, too unfit, too overweight, or too disabled to exercise? Don't kid yourself - almost anyone can benefit from getting active. Full Story | Published 07/07/2005.
It's bad enough in the cities, but depression, anxiety and other mental health problems are even worse in rural and regional Australia. Is there a solution? Full Story | Published 19/05/2005.
The days when medicines were designed as though we all respond the same way are rapidly coming to an end. Full Story | Published 21/04/2005.
Ageing. It won't happen overnight, but it will happen. We look at the biological causes of ageing, how it affects our wellbeing, and so-called anti-ageing 'treatments' - do they work, or are we being conned? Full Story | Published 07/04/2005.
Food allergies can range from annoying to life-threatening. They continue to baffle even experts in the field. And be warned, they can strike at any time. Full Story | Published 17/02/2005.
Anxious? Depressed? Panicked? Effective psychological therapy could be just a mouse click away. Full Story | Published 11/11/2004.
SciFi novels predicted we'd see amazing technological innovations merged with everyday life in the 21st Century. Puya Abolfathi, winner of the 2004 Australia Museum Eureka Prize for Inspiring Science, reports that they weren't too far from the truth. Full Story | Published 04/11/2004.
Of all the skin care products you can slap on your face, anti-wrinkle creams are the ones that will hit your pocket the hardest. But believe it or not there's a reason behind the cost. Heather Catchpole looks into the nanotechnology of keeping skin younger-looking longer. Full Story | Published 14/10/2004.
Tiredness seems to be a modern plague. Should we all be getting more sleep? Or are the causes more complex than that? Full Story | Published 19/08/2004.
Scientific advances suggest we might be able to extend our lifespans - perhaps indefinitely. But is that necessarily a good thing? Full Story | Published 22/07/2004.
Are you a left or a right brain person? Verbal & analytical or visual & artistic? Is there any science behind the stereotypes or is it all new-age waffle? Natasha Mitchell investigates the popular rhetoric behind the two hemispheres of our brain. Full Story | Published 24/06/2004.
The Lab's Expert Forum on the Brain was held on Friday 25th June - read the discussion and find out what Natasha Mitchell and a bunch of other experts had to say. Full Story | Published 24/06/2004.
Have you ever contemplated donating your entire body to science? How do you do it? What parts can be used? And what happens to it afterwards? Danny Kingsley decided to investigate the world of body donation - and discovered that after death your body can have a whole life of its own. Full Story | Published 27/05/2004.
A young general practitioner escapes city life for a stint in a Northern Territory Aboriginal health service. Full Story | Published 13/05/2004.
Older people are no longer accepting that fitness is for the young and nimble and, Elaine Mulcahy tells us, Super Grans around the country are getting their friends together to meet and enjoy the benefits of physical exercise. Full Story | Published 13/05/2004.
Half a million Australians can’t afford adequate dental treatment, thanks to a crisis in the public health sector. Planned changes to Medicare won’t be enough to solve this deep-rooted problem. What’s the solution? Full Story | Published 11/03/2004.
A third of Europe's population died over four years due to the Black Death. But was it really spread by rats and fleas? Could it have been caused by a virus? Peter Lavelle delves into the dark history of the great pestilences to look for answers. Full Story | Published 22/01/2004.
For years, women were told they were too obsessed with fat. Now they’re kissing their waistlines goodbye as they grapple with weight challenges unique to their sex. Full Story | Published 15/01/2004.
Who said good health and a good party couldn't go hand-in-hand? Certainly not Health Matters, as a little selective evaluation of the year's medical research reveals. Full Story | Published 18/12/2003.
Heroin - it's the most deadly of illicit drugs. At last a detailed look at the drug, treatment options, and how the police and courts treat heroin offenders. We investigate the heroin industry in Australia, and we weigh into the 'tough on drugs' versus the 'harm minimisation' debate. Full Story | Published 13/11/2003.
Hair loss might be something men see as inevitable, but women suffer from it too. Imagine if you started losing your hair in small round patches all over your scalp. Worse still, imagine being told that little can be done about it. For the thousands of Australians with alopecia areata, this frightening scenario is a harsh reality. Full Story | Published 02/10/2003.
Country people wanting to work as health professionals usually face a move to a capital city, but now universities are addressing the needs of remote students, and offering alternative methods of study. Full Story | Published 18/09/2003.
Can we all benefit from a more spiritual approach to recovery from psychological distress or mental illness? Full Story | Published 04/09/2003.
Humans are one of the most infertile creatures on the planet – one in six couples are infertile. Shae-Lee Cox looks at what causes infertility, how to treat it, the costs and intricacies of IVF, and your legal rights and responsibilities. Full Story | Published 21/08/2003.
Men, so they say, have good sex or great sex. And women? Well, they have good sex and great sex, but they also sometimes have bad sex. When does bad sex become an ongoing problem and what can we do to fix it? Full Story | Published 07/08/2003.
A state-by-state guide to health information and resources. Full Story | Published 03/07/2003.
With the advent of new technologies, more and more doctors are using telemedicine to treat patients in rural and remote locations. In our feature, Digital Doctors, Matthew Liddy asks; Is telemedicine the answer for the bush, or just another case of second-best? Full Story | Published 03/07/2003.
Miners work long hours, often around the clock, putting stress on their relationships and health. The work can be dangerous, with injuries, and deaths resulting from injuries, higher than the state average. But, as ABC Goldfields-Esperance and Peter Lavelle discover, the community of the Northern Goldfields in Western Australia is tackling the problem head on. Full Story | Published 03/07/2003.
Forget the two-headed Tasmanian jokes. Tasmania is rapidly gaining notoriety of a different kind: as one of the best locations in the world to probe the genetic causes of human diseases. In our feature, Treasure Island, Cathy Johnson speaks to a few of the genetic sleuths seeking out the roots of disease. Full Story | Published 03/07/2003.
Diesel exhaust is more carcinogenic than cigarette smoke, but isn't regulated like smoking. Rather, our tax system encourages more diesel use in our cities. Mark Horstman asks; Where's the 'Quit' campaign against dirty diesel? Full Story | Published 03/07/2003.
The Lab's virtual kitchen! We've prepared 10 tricky questions, to try and catch you out in the microcosmic world of food preservation. Full Story | Published 26/06/2003.
This interactive breaks the IVF cycle down into 7 sequential steps. These in turn split into a text description and an animation sequence which visualises related anatomy and specific procedures involved in each step. Full Story | Published 26/06/2003.
Not for the faint hearted! Assume the role of surgeon in coronary bypass surgery. There are 3 levels of difficulty associated with the operation: do you have you got what it takes to perform under pressure? Full Story | Published 26/06/2003.
Life Changing Science is a four-part series examining innovations that have transformed our lives. Interact with the Mobile Phone, Open Heart Surgery, In Vitro Fertilization and Food Preservation. Full Story | Published 26/06/2003.
Queensland is Australia's hotspot for Q fever – a risk for anyone working with livestock. But a vaccination campaign in the Sunshine State is gaining momentum. Full Story | Published 19/06/2003.
Falls in the elderly are common, painful, and costly. But they aren't an inevitable part of ageing. Simple measures can dramatically reduce the risks. Full Story | Published 05/06/2003.
This website looks at the facts about immunisation, to help parents make sense of the vaccination debate. Full Story | Published 22/05/2003.
In the heated debate about global warming, the dire predictions for the environment have received widespread publicity. But what of the impacts on human health? Full Story | Published 15/05/2003.
Confused about how much exercise you really need (or rather, how little you can get away with?) Health Matters sets the record straight. Full Story | Published 01/05/2003.
A 21st-century plague is sweeping through Indigenous Australia. Kidney disease is threatening to destroy traditional Aboriginal society. Full Story | Published 24/04/2003.
Hypochondria is the butt of many a social joke, but is this really fair? It is a real and disabling affliction – an extreme form of health anxiety that most doctors and our already overburdened health system aren't well equipped to handle. Full Story | Published 17/04/2003.
SARS, which stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, is the name of a potentially fatal new respiratory disease. It is not the name of the micro-organism that causes the disease - this is suspected to be a virus, although exactly which one is still uncertain. Full Story | Published 10/04/2003.
We need more than lite ice-cream to help children fight the battle of the bulge. Experts are calling for a revolution in everything from sports funding to urban design. Full Story | Published 27/03/2003.
Meningococcal can be a deadly disease. Mark Horstman tells the incredible story of one victim who made it back from the brink. Full Story | Published 20/03/2003.
Many people with schizophrenia believe that the voices on the radio or tv are speaking to them personally. But is this experience of madness universal? Natasha Mitchell reports, en route from India. Full Story | Published 13/03/2003.
Stressed city folk like to think that rural living is a calmer, healthier alternative. But the facts are otherwise. What's so toxic about country living? Full Story | Published 06/03/2003.
Diagnosing infections, dispensing antibiotics, counseling a pregnant teenager… it's all in a day's work for nurse practitioner Julie Scott. Full Story | Published 06/03/2003.
Fats are bad and carbohydrates are good, right? Well, it's not quite that simple – it seems it's the type of fat and the type of carb that matters. Full Story | Published 06/02/2003.
Curl up in front of the computer and enjoy the year's best features and news stories, including a look at the year that was by The Lab's Wilson da Silva. Full Story | Published 20/12/2002.
Tobacco is the backbone of Malawi's economy, yet only a small percentage of the population smoke. Damon Shorter reports. Full Story | Published 31/10/2002.
Dr Karl has won a 2002 Ig Nobel Prize for the Belly Button Lint Survey! Full Story | Published 04/10/2002.
Big business has changed the face of the doctor's surgery. Peter Lavelle asks who stands to gain? Full Story | Published 19/09/2002.
Some can't stop laughing, others just want to eat. But can cannabis cause psychosis? Natasha Mitchell investigates. Full Story | Published 22/08/2002.
Exploring some critical issues in Science & Development – malaria, medicine, salinity & sustainable development. Full Story | Published 25/07/2002.
Damon Shorter meets some of the researchers trying to unlock the secrets of malaria. Full Story | Published 18/07/2002.
Rae Fry looks at intersex conditions and gender assignment. Full Story | Published 09/05/2002.
Mating upside down is no easy job for flying foxes, reports Abbie Thomas Full Story | Published 11/04/2002.
The Pill has never been far from controversy. Rita Leidmann takes a look at this revolutionary drug. Full Story | Published 14/02/2002.
The aim of "therapeutic cloning" is not to create people but to clone stem cells. Daniella Goldberg reports. Full Story | Published 06/12/2001.
Results from a survey designed to discover the origin of belly button lint. Full Story | Published 06/12/2001.
What is this disease that's got the whole world worried? Full Story | Published 18/10/2001.
20 years after the discovery of AIDS Damon Shorter looks at the disease in Australia and around the world. Full Story | Published 04/10/2001.
Fiona McMillan investigates the State of the Human Genome following the release of the first blue-prints. Full Story | Published 20/09/2001.
The 'Cells from Hell' and other toxic dinoflagellates are moving south. Taylor Bildstein wonders if we can control them? Full Story | Published 23/08/2001.
The Internet is booming as a source of health information. Rae Fry talks about what to believe online. Full Story | Published 09/08/2001.
How do you know whether that lingering melancholy is genuine depression? Rae Fry finds out. Full Story | Published 21/06/2001.
Bacterial scourges that plagued humanity are coming back, and Dr Peter Collignon tells how our food is partly to blame Full Story | Published 07/06/2001.
Damon Shorter spent six weeks working with medical campaigner Dr Trevor Duke in the Highlands of PNG. Full Story | Published 15/03/2001.
Can western style research really make a difference to leprosy in Nepal? Jenny Davis reports. Full Story | Published 07/12/2000.
An amazing new technology could revolutionise life for people with missing limbs. Cathy Johnson reports. Full Story | Published 26/10/2000.
A companion site to the ABC TV Quantum special. Separating fact from fiction. Full Story | Published 22/06/2000.
A Sydney team is giving cancer patients the world over a new cause for hope. Full Story | Published 30/03/2000.
Our once invincible arsenal of antibiotics is losing its punch. Full Story | Published 25/11/1999.
Damon Shorter explores the reality of being a first year medical student. Full Story | Published 28/10/1999.
Alistair Cooke questions the public unease about genetically modified foods. Full Story | Published 19/08/1999.
Questioning the practice of implanting bionic ears in the very young. Full Story | Published 29/07/1999.
Exploring the real issues behind the genetic engineering of food. Full Story | Published 08/04/1999.
A summary of the current state of knowledge about HIV and the extent of the epidemic. Full Story | Published 04/02/1999.
Research shows that stress may be the "mystery factor" in good health. Full Story | Published 21/12/1998.
Ray Moynihan asks how scientific medicine is when it comes to assessing the effectiveness of its own treatments? Full Story | Published 05/11/1998.
As the man who discovered penicilin, Howard Florey is credited with saving 50 million lives since the second world war. Here is a look at the man and his life work. Full Story | Published 24/09/1998.
Natasha Mitchell looks into our perception of this as the "substance of masculinity". Full Story | Published 17/09/1998.
Tracey Palmer investigates the myths and the realities about infertility today, including influencing factors and advice. Full Story | Published 25/06/1998.
We know from a great deal of research that people experience hypnosis in different ways. Amanda Barnier explains her research and deals with common myths. Full Story | Published 14/05/1998.
Damon Shorter looks at the top three Australian poisonous animals and how they do it. Full Story | Published 12/03/1998.
The holiday season, what you need to know and how you can look after yourself when travelling in a malaria area. Full Story | Published 18/12/1997.
Simon Foote explains the project, the aims and what it will mean to us in the future. Full Story | Published 30/10/1997.
The Development of Radiation Exposure Standards: from the first tests to the present day. Full Story | Published 02/10/1997.
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