Conditions

Your brain is a bit like a road. You spend the first twenty years building it, the next ten consolidating and then, at age 30 your road is at its physical peak.

Great news has just been published by the American Geriatrics Society. Brain training works!

Holidays often mean a fair amount of travelling and when you are sitting still for long periods of time, the risk of developing deep vein thrombosis (DVT).

If you have a balance problem that is not tied to illness, medication or some other specific cause, simple exercises can help preserve, and perhaps improve, your balance.

Consider the animals with the largest bones - cows, elephants. What do they eat? Leafy plants.

Most of us were taught that the brain deteriorates as it ages... yes? We were even given statistics. But hold on... we knew a few people who were old but great, didn't we?

We are all individuals and our bodies may and often require a slightly different treatment approach. There are many options but correct diagnosis is critical to finding the solution that best suits you.

Damage through Stroke and TBI are the leading cause of death and disability in NZ. These two events are not only common; our outdoor life and sporting focus encourages accidents.

More than half a million Kiwis live with some form of arthritis, including one in three over the age of 45. So how do you treat it?

The frequency and severity of menopausal symptoms like night sweats, hot flushes, vaginal dryness and mood swings varies woman to woman. Some women sail through it hardly experiencing anything at all, others cop the lot and then some. On top of heavier or