What is Homeopathy?
The term homoeopathy comes from the Greek words homeo, meaning similar, and pathos, meaning suffering or disease. It is a 200-year-old [...]
What is Herbal Medicine?
Herbal medicine, also called botanical medicine or phytomedicine, refers to the use of a plant's seeds, berries, roots, leaves, bark, or [...]
What is Clinical Nutrition?
As the saying goes, 'we are what we eat'. What we put into our body provides us with our basic building [...]
Headaches
When your head is pounding the last thing you want to do is analyse how or why you have a headache.
Flaxseed
This ordinary-looking ingredient disguises impressive health-giving powers.
The ability to boost fertility
Youth and fertility go hand in hand, right? Wrong. Find out why young couples need to think about their fertility now.
Becoming a herbal medicine practitioner
Join Leah Hechtman as she discusses becoming a herbal medicine practitioner
Soy – Is it actually healthy?
Introduction What you might not realise is that your breakfast – regardless of what you ate – may actually contain soy. [...]
Building, promoting and supporting breast feeding
Introduction Whilst I always advise women that breast is best, for some breastfeeding is an exhaustive, troublesome and painful experience. Some [...]
Fertility – The Preconception Period
Just as we plan for a wedding, so to should we plan for one of the most important decisions of our [...]
New life kick-start
Introduction We've all been there - when life starts to feel like the colour beige. Plain, uninspiring and directionless. Over the [...]
Probiotics to prevent preeclampsia
A new large observational study conducted in Norway has just released promising results. Researchers have found that pregnant women who consume [...]
Assessing the alternatives – The Canberra Times
By Peter Jean - The Canberra Times forum Patients seeking reassurance about their doctor's medical qualifications usually have to look no further than [...]
Conscious planning for the coming year
2012 has been an eventful year for everyone I've spoken to. It has brought an incredible amount of change and everyone [...]
Fertility and Infertility
Join Leah Hechtman as she discusses Fertility and Infertility.
Can you prevent mental illness?
Can you prevent mental illness? Leah's column in Health Debate.