Caring for two disabled daughters has been a 40-year commitment for Laurette and Ian Wade. But what happens when elderly parents become too frail to look after their children? Jane Worthington investigates. Our daughter Jane was 10 when she started stumbling and was unable to walk a straight line,” recalls Laurette Wade. Around the same […]

The star tells Clare Rigden how her stint on Dancing With the Stars jazzed up a fitness regime that’s already packed to the rafters. It takes real guts to strip down to your bikini and dive into the freezing cold Sydney surf on a brisk morning. But Jess McNamee, who plays Sammy on Packed To […]

The TV queen’s fabulous figure is partly thanks to a broken down telly, she tells Lucy Chesterton. After years of waking up every morning to Kerri-Anne Kennerley’s reliable smile and enviable hourglass figure, it’s easy for Aussies to forget the queen of the small screen faces the same struggle to stay slim as the rest […]

TV’s popular trainer, super-fit Michelle Bridges, tells Clare Rigden that she owes her fabulous body to the support she gets from her cheer squad of one. It’s good to know that personal trainers are no different to the rest of us when it comes to dragging themselves out of a nice warm bed for some […]

Yellow Wiggle Greg Page is singing with joy over his gorgeous baby girl and new band, writes Jacqui Lang. The clothes are not as familiar, nor the tunes, but there is no mistaking that voice. After three long years, the former Yellow Wiggle, Greg Page, is back where he belongs – in the studio making […]

Good news for guys, just in! Fish high in omega-3 fatty acids — such as salmon, tuna, mackerel and sardines — has been strongly linked to a decreased risk of developing prostate cancer. The Harvard School of Public Health study, published in Clinical Cancer Research in the United States, examined the dietary habits of nearly […]

New research from the US has found that people who retire and stop working altogether are less healthy than their part-time working counterparts. University of Maryland researchers found that serious diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease were less prevalent in those who were still carrying out some kind of employment. Those workers also […]

Although the rates of cancers such as lung, colorectal, breast and prostate are on the increase around the world, the exciting findings of a scientific report titled Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a global perspective bring hope that 30 to 40 percent of all cancers can be prevented simply by adopting […]

We’ve spoken with some inspirational breast cancer survivors about their journeys. Plus don’t miss ‘Five things every woman should know about breast cancer’ below. Tanya Downes felt the lump, as she was playing on the floor with her two young kids one Sunday morning in December 2007. “I really thought it was nothing,” she says. […]