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Anxiety, depression, ADHD, sleep, and evidence-based care.
Stroke, TIA, dementia, and brain health prevention.
Weight, insulin resistance, GLP-1s, and cardiometabolic risk.
Aging biology, lifespan heritability, and longevity debates.
A new RAS-targeting drug called daraxonrasib has generated excitement in advanced pancreatic cancer. Here's why researchers believe it could mark an important step forward.
GLP-1 drugs are best known for diabetes and weight loss, but growing evidence suggests they may also help protect kidney function in some patients.
The current Ebola outbreak has triggered global concern despite Ebola being far less contagious than COVID. Here's why health experts still take it so seriously.
A hantavirus cluster linked to a cruise voyage is generating headlines. Here is what the investigation means, why the public risk is low, and what anyone who travelled on the affected vessel should know.
OpenAI just launched ChatGPT for Clinicians. It’s powerful—but it highlights a bigger gap on the patient side.
Recently updated health guides
A plain-English guide to abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening — what an AAA is, why rupture is so dangerous, who should have an ultrasound, what results mean, and how surveillance and treatment decisions are made.
Cancer is a group of diseases where abnormal cells grow uncontrollably and may spread. Explore guides on bowel, breast, prostate, skin, cervical, and liver cancer.
A plain-English guide to lung cancer screening with low-dose CT — who qualifies, what pack-years means, what the scan involves, the balance of benefits and risks, and how Australian and international guidelines approach this intervention.
A practical patient guide to bone density scanning — how DEXA works, how to interpret T-scores, who should be screened, what osteoporosis and osteopenia mean, and what to do after your results.
A clear explanation of KRAS mutations — what KRAS is, how mutations lock cell-signalling on, why KRAS was historically undruggable, how the science shifted, which cancers are affected, and where targeted therapy stands now.
A patient-focused guide to pancreatic cancer — covering symptoms, why diagnosis is often delayed, how it is staged, surgery, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, biomarker testing, and what the evidence says about prognosis.
A clear guide to precision oncology — how tumours are profiled, what biomarkers mean, how targeted therapy differs from chemotherapy and immunotherapy, what companion diagnostics are, and what the limits of the approach are.
A balanced, evidence-based guide to PSA testing for prostate cancer — covering what the test measures, potential benefits, false positives, overdiagnosis, high-risk groups, and how to approach the decision with your clinician.