Andrew Bartlett and Nial Wheate look at these significant prescriptions changes There are now significant changes to how some common medicines are prescribed and dispensed in Australia. This means you could walk away from the pharmacy with 60-days’ worth of your usual medicine from a single prescription. Until...
Psychologist, Lowri Dowthwaite-Walsh, looks at why women are unhappy and four things they can do about it. Something strange is going on in women’s happiness research. Because despite having more freedom and employment opportunities than ever before, women have higher levels of anxiety and more mental...
Exciting research from Monash University reveals how a mother's diet during early pregnancy can have a remarkable impact on the brain health of her children and even her grandchildren. In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Cell Biology, scientists at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute investigated...
There are more effective options than the pill. But they can be hard to find, report Deborah Bateson and Kathleen McNamee Australians’ access to a range of contraceptive options depends on where they live and how wealthy they are. A recent parliamentary inquiry recommends ways to...
Camp Quality has expanded their Kids’ Guide to Cancer with the aim of improving health outcomes for families, including those from multicultural communities. Receiving a cancer diagnosis is difficult for any family. It can be hard to know what to say to your kids, how...
Pharmacologists Tina Hinton, Jessica Pace, and Nial Wheate look at which works best and when? In most cases, pain and fever relief is as simple as a trip to your local supermarket for some paracetamol or ibuprofen. While both are effective at reducing pain, they work in...
But kids are at risk this flu season for one simple reason, report Asha Bowen and Christopher Blyth The 2023 flu season may be one of Australia’s largest flu seasons on record, and doctors are concerned about the impact on children. You may have seen headlines warning...
Accredited Practising Dietitian Evangeline Mantzioris reports, 'What the WHO listing means for your diet soft drink habit'. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is the specialised cancer agency of the World Health Organization, has declared aspartame may be a possible carcinogenic hazard to...
Australians’ national wellbeing shows a glass half full, reports Michelle Grattan Australia presents a mixed picture of national wellbeing, according to the government’s Measuring What Matters report released by Treasurer Jim Chalmers. On the positive side, over the past two decades life expectancy has increased, income and...
The science says it’s even worse than you think! reports Melissa Starling What’s that smell? Is that what you think it is? You check your shoes and, sure enough, one is adorned with a sticky, foul-smelling patty of fresh wrongness. You have stepped in a landmine...
