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Delivering health care to children in need
Open Forum | April 2, 2025Embedding nurse practitioners into specialist homeless services can help to improve healthcare access for vulnerable children.
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Australia’s ongoing COVID toll
Christabelle Adjoyan | March 31, 2025COVID-19 is still killing Australians — and the full picture shows sobering numbers and a lack of action on some of the key lessons of the pandemic.
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Smells like teen spirit
Open Forum | March 28, 2025Teenagers don’t distinguish between adverts for alcoholic and alcohol-free drinks – which may be exactly what the drinks companies want.
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High risks
Open Forum | March 25, 2025Marijuana is now legal in many places, but is it safe? Two new studies add to mounting evidence that people who use cannabis are more likely to suffer a heart attack than people who do not use the drug, even among younger and otherwise healthy adults.
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The future of personalised medicine
Siew Li Teoh | March 23, 2025Genetic testing can significantly reduce adverse drug reactions and improve clinical outcomes by tailoring drug treatments to the individual, but implementing pharmacogenomics into the healthcare system remains a slow process.
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Back to the drawing board
Open Forum | March 21, 2025Walking upright – and sitting too much – wrecks our backs and despite a plethora of cures and treatments, none of them seem to work.
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Who wants to live forever?
Richard Gunderman | March 2, 2025The endless quest to expand the human lifespan is both fascinating and fraught with moral peril.
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Meet the anti-science conspiracy theorist in charge of U.S. public health
Hassan Vally | February 18, 2025Robert F. Kennedy Jr – a man who doesn’t believe in science in general and vaccines in particular – has been confirmed as the Secretary of the US Health and Human Services Department
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Delving into dementia
Alan Stevenson | January 23, 2025Dementia affects nearly 60 million people around the world, and air pollution is emerging as a major contributing factor to this global scourge.
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The drinks don’t work
Open Forum | January 14, 2025Retirees show more signs of depression than older people still in work, according to a major US study, but while binge drinkers are more likely to be depressed, those who drink in moderation have fewer depression symptoms than people who don’t drink at all.
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Anatomy of a fall
Open Forum | January 13, 2025Fall-related injuries in Australia’s residential aged care could be costing the health system $325 million annually according to a new study by the University of Queensland study.