As climate change makes smog and bushfires more common, people will die from air pollution at increasingly high rates – especially in densely-populated cities.
Influenza vaccines are recommended annually, but there’s now an increasing number of different vaccine types. Here’s what to know about this year’s shots.
There are deeply concerning social trends playing out in our schools that Australian schools aren’t adequately equipped to deal with. The time is long overdue for actions that will build a whole-of-government response to solve these issues.
Researchers are conducting the first clinical trial to examine how selective estrogen receptor modulators’ (SERMs) may help both men and women suffering from schizophrenia.
What does the future hold for the millions of women left to work in Asia’s agriculture sector battling a climate in collapse?
Despite evidence that street harassment is arguably the most pervasive to women’s safety in public places, very little is known about its prevalence or patterns.
The world’s most advanced artificial heart, including a pipeline of transformative, next-generation cardiac technologies, are set to be developed and commercialised by a Monash University-led consortium.
The pictures men in paid care work are painting of work in the disability sector versus work in aged care are astonishingly different.
The groundbreaking identification of a specific T-cell receptor in healthy people without lupus has the potential to treat not only that disease, but approximately 100 autoimmune diseases known to have a similar pathology.
The beginning of the new school year begins today in Victoria, and for some families the date fills them with trepidation.
As Medicare turns 40 years old this month, it’s important to reflect on its achievements, and also what needs to be done to remodel it.
School-leavers want flexibility and gig work offers it. But how will that affect the economy?
2023 was a watershed year for women’s reproductive rights in Australia, but the cost of contraception and abortion services remains too high.
Victoria is set to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 12 this year, but questions remain as to what responses should be implemented to improve outcomes for young offenders and the community.
There’s plenty of evidence showing how social media use can affect youth mental health, but studies often omit the developing countries of the global south.
A recent study from Sweden found people with a history of chronic stress or depression had a heightened risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
Snake envenomation remains a significant health challenge in the ASEAN region, but the development of a universal antivenom holds great promise in mitigating its impact.
A major international study international study has shown that brighter days and darker nights are fundamental for mental health.
It was thought that after the pandemic, young people’s outlook for the future might have improved. But the latest Australian Youth Barometer survey shows it’s actually become worse.
COP28 will include the first dedicated “Health Day”. It’s due recognition that a health crisis is inextricably linked to the climate crisis.
To rebuild our children’s mental health after the duress of the COVID-19 pandemic, we must redefine how mental health services are delivered to our communities, and create a scaffold of affordable and accessible support.
The number of hospital emergency department presentations has increased between 23% and 49% globally in the past decade, and care is the casualty.
Gender-based violence is a national crisis, one the university sector is not immune from, and we need to step up now.
Antibiotics have been around for less than a century. But as resistant bacteria become increasingly difficult to treat, we risk a greater number of deaths from infections.
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