Prostate cancer screening comes closer. It is estimated that there were 26,368 new cases of prostate cancer diagnosed in Australia last year. According to Cancer Australia, a male has a 1 in 6 (or 18%) risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer by the age of 85....
Metformin is a commonly used drug in people with type 2 diabetes. It’s cheap and safe. But it’s also known to have effects on the immune system dampening inflammation and maybe even on the brain affecting pain perception. It’s also known that people with knee...
A new study from the Garvan and Kirby Institutes in Sydney has looked at whether it makes a difference which arm gets your booster shot i.e. subsequent vaccinations to the first one. It turns out the immune response is much more effective if the second shot is given...
Apparently one in four Australians has a tattoo. Not sure how reliable that number is but anecdotally you now see a lot more people with tattoos. Anything from fine line art work to dense tattoos covering large areas. There’s a long history of tattoos going back...
Microplastics are small particles of plastics under 5mm in size. Some are tiny (less than 0.1 of a micrometre) and are often referred to as nanoplastics. In general, the smaller the particle, the more worried experts tend to be because that’s when they can be...
