Testing times: Four emerging sexually transmitted infections that you can’t afford to ignore

Although gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis grab headlines, health officials are watching the emergence of other bacterial sexually transmitted infections.

Bryn Nelson, Mosaic

· Dec 09, 2018 · 02:30 pm

The HIV prevention pill is not only great at blocking the virus, it has other good health effects

Some worried that PrEP would allow people will be more sexually reckless and spread other STIs. But researchers find that the opposite could be true.

Bryn Nelson, Mosaic

· Dec 01, 2018 · 02:30 pm

Once considered medical trash, umbilical cord blood is saving the lives of cancer patients

Diagnosed with leukaemia in his early 40s, Chris Lihosit was saved by umbilical cord blood from three babies.

Bryn Nelson, Mosaic

· Apr 02, 2017 · 02:30 pm

For some people, blinking is so painful that they would rather not wake up the next day

An 82-year-old doctor's radical idea about the real source of unwarranted eye pain is turning heads.

Bryn Nelson, Mosaic

· May 14, 2016 · 11:30 pm

More than a decade later, lingering questions about LASIK’s long-term effects

US consumer advocates are urging regulators to warn patients more strongly about the potential complications they could face from this kind of eye surgery.

Bryn Nelson, Mosaic

· Sep 10, 2015 · 12:30 pm