Many artists are expected to organise their own ticket sales and event promotion. This is coupled with low pay from venues and having to juggle music with other full-time jobs.
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.
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.
The naming, for the first time, of specific companies, not just industries, and what they pay their male and female workers, is set to pressure employers to take action.
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.
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.
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.
2023 was a watershed year for women’s reproductive rights in Australia, but the cost of contraception and abortion services remains too high.
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.
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.
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.
A new report has found that electrifying the residential sector will result in cutting household energy costs, provide health benefits, and drive job creation.
Life insurance companies can legally use the results of genetic tests to decline coverage or increase premiums. MPs have called for legislation that bans this practice.
As we wait for global leaders to convene and chart the future course for the world’s population of eight billion, we can take proactive steps to protect health from climate change through multifaceted and sustained efforts that transcend the confines of net zero.
A new United Nations report, informed by Monash academic Bebe Loff’s research, offers a practical and evidence-based roadmap for preventing and helping eradicate femicides worldwide.
Displaced youths face several barriers to accessing quality learning opportunities, exacerbated by distance, crowding, and limited capacity.
If there’s proof needed that something needs changing, it’s surely the furtive cry we hear to “close the gap”.
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