New Research is providing updated insights into childhood concussions. Concussions are a growing concern in youth sports, but new research has brought forth game-changing advancements in diagnosing, preventing, and treating these injuries. A series of studies involving experts from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute has delved...
Rachael Sharman looks at ways to have this conversation without freaking them out? I was a teenager during Australia’s 1990s “recession we had to have”, and I remember clearly a friend asking his dad for some money to go to the movies. With equal parts frustration and...
A new bill could improve kids’ health, reports researcher Peter Breadon NSW independent MP and former GP Sophie Scamps will introduce a bill into federal parliament that would restrict junk food advertisements aimed at children. The Broadcasting Services Amendment (Healthy Kids Advertising) Bill 2023 would target advertising...
The economics are complicated, writes Paul Crosby Desire, anticipation, frustration and disappointment – any time tickets for a Taylor Swift tour go on sale, there is Bad Blood. The release of tickets for the Australian leg of Swift’s Eras world tour has been far smoother than the...
You may be interested (or possibly horrified) to discover you ingest and inhale thousands of tiny life forms on a daily basis, writes Michael Taylor The air and surfaces around you are home to multitudes of bacteria, fungi, viruses, mites, algae and protozoa. Your skin isn’t...
The first thing you notice about Queensland four-year-old Ash Saunders is his bright, beautiful smile, but when he started showing signs of being unwell on a family holiday, his parents - Nataasha and Adam - knew something was wrong. In January 2022, after a month of...
A new study by Mandy Hagstrom, shows much of what we’re told about gym exercises and resistance training is from studies of males, by men Shutterstock When you lift weights, why are you doing what you are doing? Who told you to train that way – coach,...
Paul Kidson writes, It’s that time of the year when reports on student learning come home. Anxiety for students and their parents and caregivers often tags along. Long gone are the days when a school report was handwritten page, with wisdom like “tried hard, but needs to...
With upcoming winter events and high rates of flu and COVID circulating in the community, it’s important that we keep doing the little things that will make a big difference this winter, yet many families never get around to thinking about being fully vaccinated! Most news...
Suzanne Bell draws attention to the recurrent nature of the grief experienced by parents of children with disabilities. An overwhelming sense of loss is a natural reaction when your child is diagnosed with a disability of any kind. It is often unrecognised, however, that a parent’s...
