A 24-year-old who became the face of a controversial pancreatic cancer campaign has died just days after getting married and 10 months following her diagnosis. Kerry Harvey featured in graphic images that showed tumours protruding from her scalp and quoted her as saying “I wish I had breast cancer”. The inflammatory advertisement drew more than […]

US study reveals obesity rates in children has dropped dramatically by 43 per cent.

A lice-treatment expert in the US says that she has observed a dramatic spike in the incidence of head lice and that the selfie sensation – where teenagers crush together to squeeze into self-portraits – is to blame. Marcy McQuillan says “Head lice are spread through head-to-head contact. “Lice don’t jump or fly, so you actually […]

The side-effects of methamphetamine use generally make people cringe – scabs, paranoia, heart failure, hallucinations, skin crawling and tooth rot. But there’s one side-effect that makes the dangerous drug highly sought after – weight loss. Australians have been turning to the highly addictive drug to lose kilos as young as 12, Triple J’s Hack reported […]

One in 12 Australians will develop bowel cancer. It’s also one of the highest bowel cancer rates in the world.

Comedian Billy Connolly discovered he had Parkinson’s disease because a concerned Tasmanian surgeon approached him after watching him walk through a hotel lobby in Los Angeles.

Six US Today show personalities stripped off for the cameras on Monday, going sans makeup in order to start a conversation about body image. The hosts, including the men, discussed with celebrity physician Dr Mehmet Oz what it felt like to be on-air without their usual pre-show beauty treatments and how they felt about their […]

The “Captain” is a bit of a sore loser — which is unfortunate when you’re one of My Kitchen Rules’ lowest scoring contestants in the game. Ever. Queensland contestant David Kirk hung up on Nova FM hosts Fitzy and Wippa this morning after he and partner Corinne Wieland scored just 27 points out of 100 […]

Judi Dench is suffering from macular degeneration, an age-related condition that causes blindness.

A French photographer has captured the incredible beauty of the human form in a series of nude portraits of dancers.