There’s a long history of athletes pooing themselves mid-race – why, and how can you avoid it?

Since the ancient Olympics, athletes like Hyrox competitor Joanna Wietrzyk have experienced runner’s diarrhoea. What does the science say about extreme exercise’s ‘mechanical jostling of the intestines’?

Gonorrhoea and syphilis rise by more than 50% in Australia with ‘concerning’ rise in cases in women

Newly collated data also shows Indigenous Australians experiencing disproportionally high rates of infection

A job that changed me: Working the pool kiosk in the summer of ’82, I was excited when older boys came by – but I learned that respect is better than attention

My job made me the envy of the cool girls; it made me visible. Then Johnno, Stevo and Whack paid a visit

‘Grief becomes a routine’: Farhana lost five babies. A ‘culture of silence’ exacerbated her pain

A first-of-its-kind study shows the prevalence of miscarriage in Australia, but experts fear multicultural groups remain underrepresented

At-home STI test pulled from Australian shelves after failing to detect infections

Exclusive: TGA finds Touch Biotechnology test for chlamydia and gonorrhoea ‘is not reliable’ and has affected an unspecified number of people

My rookie era: I signed up for over-40s football – it’s liberating to spend hours focusing solely on a game

My years of solo running means I’m fit and fast and I can usually get to the ball first. Eventually I’ll work out what I’m supposed to do next

It kills two-thirds of lifetime users – so why is smoking cool again?

Australian nicotine consumption is on the rise, the illegal tobacco trade is booming and cigarettes have returned to pop culture – and experts are worried

Les Mills, New Zealand Olympian behind global gym chain, dies aged 91

He and his wife opened first Les Mills gym in Auckland in 1968 and family later introduced workout programs including BodyPump taught worldwide

A US champion of ‘freebirthing’ always claimed there had been no maternal deaths linked to the movement. Is Stacey Warnecke the first?

Guardian investigation exposes full links between a US business linked to baby deaths around the world and Australian ‘birth keeper’ Emily Lal, the central witness at the inquest into the death of a Melbourne wellness influencer

Doctors don’t know what to do about wellness influencers but we dismiss them at our peril

To be a cancer specialist is to see the worst of harm caused by social media. Yet I have never changed a patient’s mind with outrage