My daughter started to describe me as disabled long before I was ready to do so myself, writes Shakira Hussein For several years after my diagnosis with remitting-relapsing multiple sclerosis, the most I was prepared to concede was that I had “a potentially disabling disease”, and...
Simon Ryan reports it's just the latest conservative book ban On March 1, 2022, Toby Price, an assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in New Byrum, Mississippi, faced a problem. The reader booked for a Zoom session for 240 grade two students hadn’t shown up....
Research from Camp Australia, the nation’s largest provider of Outside School Hours Care (OSHC), has found children in Australia’s most locked down states – ACT, NSW and Vic – have been most impacted by the pandemic. These findings have highlighted the need to support young...
Children undergoing surgery for severe hip deformities can now benefit from much shorter surgeries, which means getting back to normal walking and sitting sooner, thanks to an innovation that creates a computerised ‘twin’ of their bodies and movement. One child every two days in Queensland...
"Have you stopped wearing reusable fabric masks?" Aleasha McCallion, Forbes McGain and Kim Borg look at the waste produced from COVID disposables At the beginning of the pandemic, many of us opted to buy reusable fabric masks to help fight the spread of COVID – they’re...
Exactly two years ago, on March 11 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, writes Adrian Esterman This was two months after there were reports of a mystery virus infecting people in Wuhan, the most populous city in central China. Early reports...
Researcher Elaine Reese looks at how you can talk to your toddler to safeguard their well-being when they grow into a teenager. As parents, we all hope our teens will be healthy and happy. Our new research shows one way to help is to have positive...
‘It changed who I felt I was.’ Women tell Rhonda Garad and Amanda Vincent of the devastation at an early menopause diagnosis. For Mary*, being told she’d entered menopause much earlier than expected was a shock … It was sort of like I’d gone from 39...
Google searches for “dehumidifier” have soared in the past month, especially in New South Wales, and there are a lot of options to choose from., writes Michael Taylor But how much moisture can these things really remove? And what happens if you just ignore the problem? I’ve...
‘Brain fog’ during menopause is real, Caroline Gurvich and Chen Zhu – it can disrupt women’s work and spark dementia fears For nearly two-thirds of women, menopause comes with an undesirable change in memory. Despite great progress in understanding the medical aspects of menopause – a natural...
