• Heading into trouble

    Jocelyn Prasad     |      June 20, 2025

    The findings of a world-first experiment add to evidence suggesting heading a ball in the world’s most played sport can impact the brain, even when concussion doesn’t occur.

  • On the slide

    Open Forum     |      June 19, 2025

    Poor lifestyles and bad habits start to affect our health by our mid-thirties, much earlier than some people assume.

  • ReNeuWell

    Open Forum     |      June 18, 2025

    Researchers from NeuRA and UNSW Sydney have launched a new app aimed at boosting the wellbeing and resilience of adults. ReNeuWell helps people to shift the focus from managing distress to actively promoting mental flourishing, offering a neuroscience-backed, personalised approach to mental health.

  • Out and about

    Open Forum     |      June 12, 2025

    GPS technology appears to be encouraging older people to be more adventurous on the road.

  • The natural way to better mental health

    Open Forum     |      June 8, 2025

    Regular chats with friends, time spent in nature and mentally engaging activities are strongly linked to better mental health, according to new Curtin University research that highlights the power of simple, everyday behaviours to improve well-being.

  • Private hospitals in crisis

    Yuting Zhang     |      June 4, 2025

    Is Australia’s private hospital system collapsing? Here’s what the sector’s financial instability means for you.

  • Thank you, modern medicine

    Grant Blashki     |      May 26, 2025

    Modern medicine often gets a bad rap, with people preferring to complain about its cost or bureaucracy, or put their faith in unproven ‘alternative’ treatments, but we should all take a moment to appreciate the massive contribution it has made to improving – and extending – our lives.

  • Life ends at forty

    Open Forum     |      May 18, 2025

    Loneliness, feeling older than your age and a negative attitude to ageing are all associated with early stages of frailty, even in people as young as 40, new research has revealed.

  • Delivering health care to children in need

    Open Forum     |      April 2, 2025

    Embedding nurse practitioners into specialist homeless services can help to improve healthcare access for vulnerable children.

  • The wait

    Open Forum     |      April 1, 2025

    The long wait for an initial treatment session for teenagers suffering from poor mental health could be undermining their prospects of recovery.

  • Australia’s ongoing COVID toll

    Christabelle Adjoyan     |      March 31, 2025

    COVID-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.

  • Smells like teen spirit

    Open Forum     |      March 28, 2025

    Teenagers don’t distinguish between adverts for alcoholic and alcohol-free drinks – which may be exactly what the drinks companies want.