As climate change makes smog and bushfires more common, people will die from air pollution at increasingly high rates – especially in densely-populated cities.
It’s time to ditch colonial thinking and listen to the wisdom of Indigenous peoples to advance health and wellbeing, and to forge a sustainable planetary future.
This is not the final exchange between the two nations, and escalation could step up yet another notch in the near future.
A new national survey has found career stability and funding are two key factors turning young scientists away from research.
New study findings reveal higher levels of school belonging at the age of 15 to 16 were associated with lower levels of depression, anxiety and stress in young adulthood.
The finding arose from long-term follow-up of patients who received human growth hormone that was taken from brain tissue of deceased donors, but the risk is very low – and you can’t “catch” it like a virus.
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 have completed Australia’s most detailed analysis of opioid tapering trajectories to date, with some findings that contradict current guidelines.
Researchers are conducting the first clinical trial to examine how selective estrogen receptor modulators’ (SERMs) may help both men and women suffering from schizophrenia.
Getting enough quality sleep is important for good health and wellbeing, but sleep problems plague many people with diabetes.
Gender equality, in the workforce and at home, took a backward step during the pandemic, with the patriarchy taking advantage of the virus. It’s not just up to women to fight back.
Sleep gadgets have become ubiquitous, but getting the information you need from them is more straightforward than you might think.
Medical faculties globally have been slow to recognise the training needs of the next generation of doctors regarding the health consequences of a heating planet.
With the the psychedelic field dynamic and rapidly changing, Monash’s pioneering Clinical Psychedelic Lab has a vision to make a meaningful difference in mental healthcare.
A new trial is looking for chemical markers in the breath of people with silicosis. A second project will test drugs that may help lung scarring.
Government reforms are fighting the tactics that have fed a cultural acceptability of vaping, and a mistaken belief it has insignificant health risks.
Loneliness isn’t a universal occurrence in later life, but tends to affect older people who live alone or in care homes. We must work collectively to destigmatise loneliness, and create a safe space to talk about it.
As Closing the Gap policy failures are laid bare in the Productivity Commission’s latest report, a new study aims to quantify the gap in Indigenous mental health and economic insecurity.
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.
Months of painstaking negotiations, mediated by the US, Egypt and Qatar, have led to a new package deal that the two sides are now weighing up.
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.
New research shows that for people living with long COVID and intimate partner violence, each was exacerbated by the other and services were inadequate.
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