How funding to house mentally ill, homeless is a financial gain, not drain
May 04, 2017 12:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Politics Health
As Congress considers the federal budget proposal for fiscal year 2018 to reduce funding for services to poor and homeless Americans, programs with proven cost-effectiveness should not be on the chopping block. One such...
Saving lives in poor countries is about adapting to what's already working there
May 04, 2017 12:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Each year, 5.9 million children under the age of five die, mostly from preventable causes. Thats more than 16,000 children every day and more than 8,000 of these are deaths that could have been prevented with simple,...
How robots can help us embrace a more human view of disability
May 04, 2017 11:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Health
When dealing with the otherness of disability, the Victorians in their shame built huge out-of-sight asylums, and their legacy of them and us continues to this day. Two hundred years later, technologies offer us an...
Food as medicine: why do we need to eat so many vegetables and what does a serve actually look like?
May 03, 2017 01:59 am UTC| Health
This is the first article in a three-part package food as medicine, exploring how food prevents and cures disease. Most Australian adults would know theyre meant to eat two or more serves of fruit and five or more...
Why brain stimulation isn't what it's cracked up to be
May 01, 2017 14:41 pm UTC| Health
Interest in electrical brain stimulation has skyrocketed in recent years, both in the popular media and scientific literature. Scientists and clinicians are using the non-invasive and cheap technique to treat various...
Your sons and your daughters: mental health in the age of overtime
May 01, 2017 04:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
This piece is republished with permission from Millennials Strike Back, the 56th edition of Griffith Review. Articles are a little longer than most published on The Conversation, and present an in-depth analysis of the...
Apr 30, 2017 14:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
In medicine, we speak of seeing patients when we are rounding in the hospital or caring for those who come to our clinics. But what about those people who may be sick but do not seek care? What is our responsibility to the...
The Alberta government is interfering in public sector bargaining on an unprecedented scale
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Canada needs a national strategy for homeless refugee claimants