Everyone loves a good cuppa, whether first thing in the morning, at noon or with supper.  However, new research reveals that if you have a preference for scaldingly hot tea, you’re putting yourself at risk of oesophageal cancer. So how hot is hot? The new research was conducted in North Iran, a region that worships…

The recent TGA decision to defer the rescheduling of codeine-containing OTC medications conflicts with rising codeine analgesics misuse, its devastating consequences and the recognition that opioid misuse is a public health concern. Further, the TGA’s own acknowledgement of low dose codeine efficacy, genetic variances in codeine metabolism and established misuse side-effects from combination OTC products, gives little…

New research conducted by King’s College, London reveals women living with breast cancer and depression face an increased risk of death. Results from a 10 year study involving more than 77,000 British women with breast cancer found that after factoring many variables, such as the stage of the cancer, age of cancer diagnosis, co-morbidities and…

In a bid to tackle the growing public health issue of amphetamine addiction, The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has awarded more than $1 million to conduct the nation’s largest clinical trial of medical treatment for “ice” addiction to date. The urgency of this research stems from what has been described this year, as an ice…