May 23, 2013 Research suggests anorexia sufferers may fare better if doctors stop trying to get them to gain weight and put their focus elsewhere.

May 23, 2013 Australia is up there with the world's fattest countries. What are the thinner, healthier countries doing right?

May 23, 2013 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.

May 22, 2013 There are lots of annoying people on Facebook. Us parents are among them.

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May 22, 2013 Life inside a fat cell may be as complex as the universe itself.

May 22, 2013 The children born at the turn of the century are switched on like never before, writes Rachel Browne.

May 22, 2013 The ACT Health Directorate has been accused of bullying final-year ANU medical students.

May 21, 2013 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.

May 21, 2013 The office chair has taken a back seat in Steve Morley's office as he brings new meaning to multi-tasking.