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Heading into trouble
Jocelyn Prasad | June 20, 2025The 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.
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On the slide
Open Forum | June 19, 2025Poor lifestyles and bad habits start to affect our health by our mid-thirties, much earlier than some people assume.
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ReNeuWell
Open Forum | June 18, 2025Researchers 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.
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Out and about
Open Forum | June 12, 2025GPS technology appears to be encouraging older people to be more adventurous on the road.
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The natural way to better mental health
Open Forum | June 8, 2025Regular 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.
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Private hospitals in crisis
Yuting Zhang | June 4, 2025Is Australia’s private hospital system collapsing? Here’s what the sector’s financial instability means for you.
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Thank you, modern medicine
Grant Blashki | May 26, 2025Modern 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.
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Life ends at forty
Open Forum | May 18, 2025Loneliness, 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.
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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.