As I’ve written before, macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in Australia, and 1 in 7 Australians over 50 suffer from it. Although ...

The emergence of "superbugs", bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics, is shaping up as one of the greatest world-wide health-care challenges of the (still relatively) new ...

Hypertension (high blood pressure) is one of the most common medical conditions seen by doctors in Australia and other Western industrialised countries, and causes more ...

Today is World AIDS Day. Around 34 million people worldwide have HIV. 25 million have died from AIDS, 1.7 million of them in 2011. Just ...

Since Channel 7’s recent story on toxoplasmosis many patients have asked me about this condition.

In 1993 when I was a medical student doing a term in the USA at the Mayo Clinic I attended a lecture from a visiting ...