Disease

Christian McDonald spent 31 days trapped in his own body and unable to move.

How to treat these common discomforts.

No one knew how something so small could be life-threatening.

Everything to know about the debilitating disease.

‘Her heart was failing and she became weaker every day.’

The 26-year-old only fell ill during the ceremony.

Laura Wood, 21, reveals what it's like to lose your mum to breast cancer. Her mission to channel her grief into raising money and awareness really inspired us. So we made her our cover girl this week.

All the facts, right here.

Numerous doctors failed to detect it in her system.

At just five months old baby Archie has already been in the fight of his life but his parents are still holding out hope he'll be home for his first Christmas.

Her family are urging others to learn the warning signs.

The condition has always been notoriously difficult to treat

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The four-year-old boy has a rare medical condition that makes him look like an elderly man.

My GP was almost in tears when she told me I had HIV. My first thought was 'I don't want to live with this.'

Deb Herdman had been relaxed about getting a skin lesion checked, but in the same month she discovered she was pregnant she found out it was cancer.

To honour World MS Day today, The Weekly Online chats to three women about how MS has affected their lives.

Christine Bryden, 66, has had dementia for 20 years, yet she does not live in a nursing home, is still able to converse, follow the news and even dance.

A rare degenerative disease means Lisa Senior's three children, Maycee, Callum, and Jack, will not live past their teens.

Eight-year-old Genavieve Jackson has been suffering terrifying bouts of blindness for two years – and she knows why. But doctors refuse to act because according to them, her disease does not exist in Australia.

What you need to know about what the World Health Organization is calling “explosive pandemic potential.”

The signs and symptoms to look for and how to get help.

Brisbane mum invited people to home to be infected at her "chicken pox party."

Our tips on allergies, medical needs and immunization advice to ensure your babies health and wellbeing

A recent study of heart attack patients has emphasised the key role of exercise and dietary change in the recovery process, writes Michael Sheather.

It is similar to using methadone long-term instead of heroin.

Scientists in the US have reportedly started human trials on a new vaccine against Ebola.

A new study has revealed that children given antibiotics as babies could be susceptible to a range of adult diseases.

British teenager Chloe Inman, 16, suffered from amnesia and for two years couldn’t remember a single thing about her life, until one day her little brother cured her with a cuddle! For six years she’d suffered excruciating headaches from a rare illness, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, which went undiagnosed. At 15, Chloe was finally diagnosed with […]

A much-maligned 'educational' book for children by anti-vaccination advocate Stephanie Messenger has been bombarded with hilariously scathing reviews on Amazon in recent weeks.

When it comes to children’s health, there are few topics more emotionally polarising than vaccination. Granted, the vast majority of Australian kids receive their scheduled jabs. Yet among the small minority of parents who refuse them and argue for the right to abstain, the opposition is often vehement. In response, there’s been a growing chorus […]

Sue Ellen Kovack alarmed authorities yesterday when she presented with a low-grade fever to Cairns Hospital after returning from Sierra Leone where she was working as a nurse in the Ebola affected nation. Queensland Health’s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said the woman will remain under observation for at least another 24-hours. “This is […]

Women might be able to use drug-delivering tampons to protect themselves from HIV.

Travellers are being encouraged to stay clear of Ebola effected areas.

What is measles? 1. The measles virus is described by the World Health Organisations as a “highly contagious, serious disease”.  2. The virus is airborne, spreading through the air with coughing and sneezing. 3. Symptoms include fever, tiredness, runny nose, sore eyes and a cough, followed by a blotchy red rash which appears two to […]

Twenty years ago, The Weekly published an article about Fabry Disease which brought together Fabry sufferers from all over Australia.

It's not really the conversation anyone wants to have, but this uncomfortable chat saved two Australian women from dying of cancer.

Dozens of Australian babies have been infected with a virus that has no known cure, doctors say.

For the past three years, Cassie Ginns, 24, has been living in agony as her own body relentlessly attacks itself. Here, the South Australian girl explains the horrors of living with lupus – a potentially fatal disease most people have never even heard of. My battle with my own body started innocuously enough – I […]

Without medication, Rachelle Haikalis’ 11-year-old daughter will die. But the drugs needed to extend her life cost $300,000 a year and her family just can’t afford them. Here, Rachelle reveals the heartache of being unable to save your own child’s life. This time last year, we were living a normal, happy life. Today, we are […]

Dylan Siegel, 7, is on a mission to find a cure for a rare liver condition that threatens his best friend's life.

One in 12 Australians will develop bowel cancer. It’s also one of the highest bowel cancer rates in the world.

Comedian Billy Connolly discovered he had Parkinson’s disease because a concerned Tasmanian surgeon approached him after watching him walk through a hotel lobby in Los Angeles.

One day on my way to school I felt a strange rush. An intense feeling of déjà vu swept over me: first rendering me cold, and then hitting me with a searing hot flush. The entire episode lasted just half a minute, but left me feeling weak and nauseous. I was 17 at the time, […]

According to a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine (168:154-158), a sedentary lifestyle won’t just trigger weight gain and predispose you to diseases like type 2 diabetes — it can actually make you age faster. The study, of over 2,000 twins, found that those who exercised for at least 199 minutes per week were […]

Regular self-examination reduces your risk of many diseases. These 10 safe and painless health checks could save your life. 1.Know your breasts.Look at your breasts in the mirror and feel them with soapy hands while you’re in the shower. Check for changes at least once a month. For further information, visit The Cancer Council at […]