Health

Your breasts are sisters, not twins!

Find out why breast self-examination is crucial for early detection and peace of mind. Learn how to examine your breasts.

Making plans for Mary

Learn why planning a living will is essential for ensuring your end-of-life wishes are honored. Take control of your healthcare decisions today.

Victorian Virtual Emergency Department just a click away

Ease hospital busy periods and reduce wait times by using the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department, a video-based healthcare service.

Some patients can really test your patience

A patient begrudgingly places his mask on before describing his “non-viral illness” symptoms such as sore throat, blocked nose, some mild cough and muscle aches and pains which had only started the day before.

A mother of a day

A recent experience of Dr Teah Mogae while consulting a patient about Mother's Day

All that glistens is snot gold (or green, or yellow) 

Cold and flu season is upon us, which means that noses across the west are running wild. But have you ever stopped to consider where all that excess mucus comes from? And then, where it goes? Well, make yourself a steaming hot lemon and honey drink, and let’s wade through the thick and thin of it all.

Ginger roots:The surprising origin of red hair

In a nod to World Redhead Day on 26th May, let’s comb through the science of red hair and how it’s passed down from parent to child (or not).

Sometimes you just can’t argue with fate

If medicine ever stopped being amazing, I figure I could try my hand at matchmaking.

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