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Burn the blues away
Open Forum | February 27, 2023University of South Australia researchers are calling for exercise to be a mainstay approach for managing depression as a new study shows that physical activity is 1.5 times more effective than counselling or the leading medications.
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A bitter pill to swallow
Open Forum | February 18, 2023The world’s pharmaceutical companies justify the absurd price tags for their products with the claim the money goes to developing new life saving drugs, but their financial figures suggest otherwise.
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Community co-design targets Indigenous diabetes
Open Forum | February 15, 2023Cutting the high toll of diabetes and metabolic syndrome in Australian Indigenous communities requires remission strategies that are co-designed by Indigenous communities, according to a team of Flinders University researchers.
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The kraken wakes
Angus Hughes | February 3, 2023Though COVID has disappeared from the headlines and public consciousness, it continues to kill dozens of Australians every week and yet another new variant – nicknamed Kraken – is on its way to this country.
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Keep fit, stay smart
Open Forum | January 28, 2023Living a healthy lifestyle, including eating a healthy diet and staying mentally, physically and socially active could help slow memory decline for the over 60s, according to Chinese research, even for people with genetic markers for Alzheimer’s and dementia.
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Beating peanut allergies
Open Forum | January 13, 2023Boiling peanuts for up to 12 hours could help overcome children’s allergic reactions according to the results of a clinical trial at Flinders University.
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Looking forward to a world with Alzheimer’s treatments
Amy Brodtmann | January 7, 2023As Alzheimer’s cases grow, scientists have been deep in debate over its causes. Now treatments are on the horizon, the new race is to ready the health system.
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Run for the bus
Open Forum | January 3, 2023A new study has found that even micro-bursts of activity during the day can help people live longer, healthier lives.
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Getting fit without getting hurt
Lewis Macgregor | January 1, 2023It’s the time, once again, for New Year’s resolutions, which often revolve around health and fitness after a week of sloth and excess. Here then are five ways to avoid pain and injury when starting a new exercise regime.
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Seeing through the smokescreen
Jillian Kohler | December 18, 2022The big tobacco companies denied the deadly impact of their products for decades, and are now trying to rehabilitate their image while still killing millions of people around the world every year.
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Pet therapy
Em Bould | December 1, 2022The loneliness and isolation older people often suffer in nursing homes and aged care institutions can be eased with more interaction with pets as well as people.
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The war against microbes
Gerald Bloom | November 28, 2022Antimicrobial resistance due to the overuse of antibiotics is one of the biggest public health challenges of our time and we’re at a crossroads on how to combat it.