Doctor selection critical to meeting your healthcare needs
If you’re on the hunt for a new general practitioner (GP), take into account gender, age, availability, qualifications and, of course, billing.
On a ‘Little Wing’ and a Prayer: Helping Aussie Kids in Outlying Communities Access Life-Saving Treatments
An inspiring group is helping rural Australian families overcome the ‘tyranny of distance’ and expensive treatment costs for children living with life-threatening and chronic illnesses.
Needle-Free Vaccines on the Horizon
Have needles got you dreading your next trip to the doctor’s office or hesitating to get that annual flu shot? If so, this new advancement in vaccine technology may change your mind.
Male Anorexia Nervosa – M.A.N.
VIVA! is currently teaming with the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane to recruit patients (men and women) for the Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative (ANGI) – the world’s largest and most rigorous genetic investigation into the illness.
Health Fads From The Year That Was
2014 was a weird, wacky and wonderful year of health trends ranging from “pop-diets” and the gluten-free craze, through to the advent of ‘food activating’. One thing is certain: all are big business.