John Elder

You're likely to associate atherosclerosis – or ‘hardening of the arteries' as it's commonly called – with cholesterol and triglycerides.

Oxford scientists this week received funding to develop a vaccine for ovarian cancer. There is no screening program for this cancer.

Vitamin D is emerging as a wonder drug for a variety of diseases, including diabetes and heart disease. It's not just for bone health.

It has long been assumed that mindfulness meditation reduces stress or pain by activating a placebo response – but a new, “very painful” experiment involving heat and bare legs has shown that's wrong.

With dementia, over time, you stop being the ‘you' that everybody knows. The gradual loss of life-long memories and memory-related tasks isn't the whole story.

Tick season is well under way. Up to 5000 pets are taken to the vet each year. One out of 10 won't survive.

An innovative and relatively new training technique for elite athletes has proven to be an effective strategy in protecting and improving the lives of sedentary older people.

Day one of the new order! Aside from chasing down political enemies, and sending them off to fight in foreign wars, born-again US President Donald Trump is bringing a Kennedy back to the White House as a kind of health tsar.

In August, the American Cancer Society published shock findings of a major study: millennials and the tail-end of Generation X were at more risk of developing 17 types of cancer than older generations.

In the past couple of days, you might have read that Australians aged 50 and over could soon be subjected to mandatory driving lessons.