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Welcome to ABC Health & Wellbeing

Welcome to ABC Health & Wellbeing, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's award-winning online health gateway.

Since we started out in 2002 as Health Matters, we've attracted a growing national and international audience with an average of 100,000 page views a week.

Now we have a new name, a new look and a stronger focus on healthy living. We want to inspire, inform and entertain you with information you can trust.

In addition to our comprehensive evidence-based feature articles, fact files, consumer guides and 'Pulse' columns you can browse healthy recipes, be inspired by the personal health stories of others (or even share your own) in Your Stories, and discuss the truth behind those nagging health questions in the Fact Buster column.

And don't forget to take a look at our short video segments: Health Minutes, which gives you pithy summaries of important new research findings, and Healthy Living, engaging insights into how you can manage your lifestyle to encourage good health.

ABC medical reporter Sophie Scott provides a wrap-up of the latest TV health and medical news in the Health Quarter, while Dr Norman Swan leads a team of reporters on a quest for the truth about our bodies and the things we pay people to do to them in Tonic.

Whether you're interested in low-carb diets, getting fit, private health insurance, depression, cancer - either bamboozled or just after a second opinion – we hope we can help

We also provide links to health news and transcripts from right across the ABC so check out our TV/Radio/Video page for more details.

Keep in touch by subscribing to our free weekly email health tip and/or our newsletter of the latest health stories from across the ABC.

Our A - Z library gives you a comprehensive outline of our material.

Staff

Executive producer: Ian Allen
Producers: Claudine Ryan, Cathy Johnson, Rebecca Jenkins
Developer: Danielle Hickson
Health & Wellbeing Redesign: Genelle Weule (Producer) and Claudine Ryan (Producer/journalist)

Credits

Information architecture: Briony Williamson
Graphic design: Victoria Gregory, Lee Mullen, Julie Ramsden
HTML development: Danielle Hickson, Tristan Gross
XML development: John Horner, Nicholas Gledhill, Brendan Kerrison, Scott Enver
Broadband development: Dom D'Souza, Anthony Watson
Search engine: Darryl Lewis

Thanks to: Eddie Kinny-Lewis

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