Your GP pauses at one spot during your skin check and takes a closer look. What happens from there? Spots don’t automatically need to be removed. Depending on what your GP sees, you may be advised that no further action is currently required, have an area monitored for changes, or need further investigation, such as

Most people have heard of a skin check, but fewer know what Total Body Mapping (TBM), also known as Mole Mapping, is or how it differs. While both help monitor your skin, they do different jobs. A skin check helps your GP assess your skin today, while Total Body Mapping creates a consistent visual record

Did you know the human body changes considerably during your 40s? That’s for men and women. Changes in sleep, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol and hormone levels often become more noticeable during this decade. Many people remain healthy and active, but begin noticing that their body responds differently than it did ten years earlier. What’s in

Most people feel like they already know the basics about cancer. Don’t smoke. Be sun safe. Eat well. What’s changing is not the advice itself, but who cancer is affecting and how early it’s being picked up. Recent reporting, including the Four Corners program, Cancer Generation, highlights a rise in diagnoses among Australians in their

A simple injection has helped protect people around the world from serious illnesses such as measles, whooping cough, polio, tetanus and influenza. Because many vaccine-preventable diseases are now seen less often in everyday life, it can be easy to assume they are no longer much of a concern. In reality, immunisation remains an important part

Most people think of independence as doing everything on their own. Driving yourself to appointments. Looking after the house. Going to work. Walking the dog along the foreshore at Victoria Point. Keeping up with family life. It’s easy to assume that needing medical care means losing some of that independence. In reality, the opposite is