As you go through your day, you may not think about your heart, the organ central to your life as it pumps blood throughout your body. But that can change quickly if you experience a potentially ...

Articulating a comprehensive definition of health and disease has been a historically intricate task. The earliest conceptual frameworks for health and disease can be traced back to the ancient ...

Ray Moynihan's work is part funded from an NHMRC STEP grant and he is a member of the scientific committee organising the Preventing Overdiagnosis conference. www.preventingoverdiagnosis.net How “high ...

Lewy body diseases -- Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies -- should be defined as neuronal alpha-synuclein disease, not as clinical syndromes, a new position paper proposed. "Parkinson's ...

Restrictive lung diseases are chronic conditions that limit the ability of the lungs to expand during inhalation. This reduces the amount of air that the person can breathe in. A range of chronic ...

Dr Ray Moynihan receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, via an Early Career Fellowship. He is also co-chair of the scientific steering committee for the Preventing ...

Scheuermann’s disease describes a medical condition that impacts the shape of vertebrae in the spine. This condition often affects children and adolescents, resulting in a characteristic rounding of ...

Smoking causes not only cancer but also cardiovascular diseases such as stroke, coronary heart disease, hypertension, thromboembolism, and peripheral artery disease, lung disease such as chronic ...

It’s not uncommon for children to experience occasional tummy troubles. Sometimes it’s something they ate, and other times they may simply not be feeling well. And from time to time, everything from ...