While you’re working on your fitness resolutions, let’s clear up a few misconceptions: – Your weight will fluctuate, even after hitting that feel-good goal. It happens to everyone, even elite athletes. – At some point, you will hit a plateau. – Your running pace will regress after initial gains. – You will get stuck on a weight-lifting benchmark. None of ...

Experts have questioned the decision by public health bodies to not reveal the countries that two pregnant Australian women with the Zika virus travelled to before being infected. On Thursday, Queensland Health reported a pregnant Australian woman infected with Zika had returned to the country after an overseas trip, while on Friday, Victoria’s health minister made a similar announcement about a woman ...

It’s a scientific rule of thumb so widespread, so deeply embedded in a million magazine articles and diet plans, that it’s probably better known than all four laws of thermodynamics put together. Your health can be gauged by calculating your body mass index (BMI), a simple process that involves dividing your weight by the square of your height. It’s a formula used ...

Australia’s health network is cheap and effective by international standards, but powerful vested interests are rorting the system.   Cervixes are the surprise new battleground in the fight to curb rising health costs. Just before Christmas, the federal government unveiled a plan to save public coffers $650 million a year by scrapping a bulk-billing incentive for pathologists and diagnostic service ...

Garry Lyon has relinquished his role as co-host of The Footy Show as he undergoes treatment for a mental health condition. In a statement on Saturday, Channel Nine said Lyon, who is also the co-host of Footy Classified, a Triple M commentator and is an Age columnist, had been “suffering from a serious mental health condition”. Nine said there was no time ...

A 47-year-old man has succumbed to his injuries from a deadly train collision in southern Germany, bringing the death toll from the accident to 11, police say. Two trains travelling at high speed crashed head-on Tuesday, in one of Germany’s deadliest accidents in years, with one slicing the other apart, ripping a large gash in its side. Dozens of people ...

A man who survived the Jakarta terror attacks has returned to the scene for the first time to prove the terrorists have failed in their main aim: to spread fear. Manfred Stoifl was sitting in the Starbucks on Jalan Thamrin, waiting for a friend, when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives right beside him, leaving him with serious injuries. “There ...

World Rugby is investigating whether New Zealand’s dramatic last-gasp pool draw with Australia at the Sydney Sevens came with eight Kiwi players on the field. The sport’s governing body says the 17-17 result will stand, but they are reviewing the incident to “determine if any disciplinary action is warranted”. Australia led 17-10 in the dying moments of Saturday night’s match ...

Samantha Stosur has kept Australia’s hope of returning to the Fed Cup World Group alive with a straight-sets win over Slovakia’s Jana Cepelova in Bratislava. The hosts were leading the World Group Two tie on Saturday after Arina Rodionova was downed 5-7, 7-5, 6-0 by Anna Karolina Schmiedlova in an epic battle that lasted more than three hours. But world ...

Leicester City’s fairytale season has scaled new heights as it opened up a five-point lead at the Premier League summit by beating title rivals Manchester City 3-1.\ Centre-back Robert Huth scored twice, either side of a brilliant Riyad Mahrez goal, as Leicester recorded the finest win of its sensational 12-month rise from bottom to top of the English top flight. ...