John Elder
Coffee may protect against multiple cardiometabolic diseases
Can coffee offer protection against the diseases that either kill us or make us chronically ill? Yet another study says “yes”. These...
Epilepsy drug may curb snoring and other sleep apnoea symptoms
The standard treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea is sleeping with a plastic mask strapped on your face. Patients with obstructive sleep apnoea...
Cardiac arrest or heart attack? What to do in each case
Whenever someone famous falls to the ground, clutching their chest, it’s almost always reported that they’ve suffered a heart attack. In fact,...
Most people over 70 should be taking statins, study finds
Older people should consider taking statins to offset the increased age-related risk of stroke and heart disease, the main findings of two...
Lupus: What’s complicating Selena Gomez’s baby plans
Selena Gomez has been a showbiz trouper since the age of nine. Now, at 32, the co-star of streaming hit Only Murders...
Meningococcal disease: More common in early spring and suddenly deadly
Over three weeks, from mid-August into September, three children from far north Queensland developed meningococcal disease. This was a life-threatening infection caused...
Sleeping in on the weekend cuts the risk of heart disease
Sleeping in on the weekend, to compensate for disrupted sleep during the week, protects the heart, according to a study that might...
Following a Mediterranean diet might protect from Covid-19, study finds
Back in 2020, as the world was trying to come to grips with the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers speculated on whether diet might...
Superfoods: Are they really a thing, or marketing spin?
Remember kale? Before it became the stringy green vegetable that you could turn into chips in the oven, kale was a ‘superfood’....
Baking soda: What it’s good for, what it’s not
In the land of pretend doctoring – also known as TikTok – drinking a glass of water with a spoonful of baking...