Personalised medicine is an area of research that's been pumped full of hype in recent years, promising to create individualised treatments for a whole range of conditions, including cancer.

In a panel discussion moderated by Dr Norman Swan at the World Science Festival in Brisbane in March, experts consider the promise and power of CRISPR.

The immune system. Fantastic when it works — terrible when it doesn't.

According to a leading health economist it may be too simplistic to describe health problems in disadvantaged populations separately from economic disadvantage.

A study in the Kimberley in Western Australia has found that the environment in Aboriginal communities explains a high percentage of hospital admissions and many millions of dollars in costs.

A spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak can be hard to diagnose and causes debilitating symptoms.

Moderate aortic stenosis was linked to a 58 per cent mortality rate over five years.

Understanding why men and women have different rates of cancer could help us fight disease.

There's a fungus spreading round the world that can cause septicaemia, coma, organ failure and death in susceptible people.

Exposure to fine particulate matter rises dramatically during bushfires, and is associated with increased hospital admissions for a wide range of medical conditions.