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3 days ago | womensweekly.com.au | Ashleigh Austen

From a late‑night online splurge to a vintage bargain you found at your local second-hand shop, a special thrill comes with adding a fresh piece to your wardrobe. But while it can be tempting to skip the laundry step and wear it right away, experts agree it’s worth pausing to wash it first. Why you should wash new clothesMany of us don’t realise that new clothes aren’t necessarily as ‘clean’ as they seem.

4 days ago | womensweekly.com.au | Ashleigh Austen

If you deal with lower back pain, you’re far from alone. In Australia, back pain affects roughly four million people every year, making it one of the nation’s biggest health burdens. However, a new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open suggests that one of the best preventative treatments doesn’t involve expensive equipment or trips to the physio. It’s as simple as putting one foot in front of the other.

1 week ago | womensweekly.com.au | Angus Fontaine

It was the missing persons case that stole our innocence – three children snatched from an Adelaide beach in broad daylight on Australia Day, 1966. Now, almost 60 years later, an amateur sleuth and a retired police detective believe they have finally identified the man who abducted the Beaumont children. Parents know the panic. A lost child, even for a few agonising seconds, can be a nightmare.

1 week ago | womensweekly.com.au | Ashleigh Austen

More commonly known as HPV, it’s estimated that 85 per cent of people who have been sexually active will contract human papillomavirus at some stage in their life. Yet despite how common it is, there’s still plenty of confusion – and stigma – surrounding the virus. Here’s everything you need to know. What is HPV? HPV is a common sexually transmitted virus, spread through intimate skin-to-skin contact.

1 week ago | womensweekly.com.au | Genevieve Gannon

We’ve caught Rebecca Gibney in a brief and rare moment of downtime between projects. Her sunlit room is quiet. Beyond her window stretches the unspoiled green of New Zealand’s Marlborough region. She has just finished filming Dancing with the Stars and is taking a breath before returning to Sydney to appear on stage for the first time in 23 years. Unable to stop completely, she is using the fleeting moment of stillness to read scripts sent by writers and producers.