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...
Teenagers who are both bully and victim are more likely to have suicidal thoughts
Apr 28, 2017 00:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Most research into teen bullying tends to focus only on the victim. This means we know little about how the bully is affected. A new Australian study shows that teenagers who have been both a victim and a bully are at...
Genetic surveillance and why it's critical in the fight against antimalarial drug resistance
Apr 25, 2017 07:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Efforts to tackle malaria infections over the past decades have yielded impressive results across the tropics, so much so that full elimination is now a public health priority for many malaria endemic...
Hypnosis may still be veiled in mystery – but we are starting to uncover its scientific basis
Apr 22, 2017 01:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Some argue that hypnosis is just a trick. Others, however, see it as bordering on the paranormal mysteriously transforming people into mindless robots. Now our recent review of a number of research studies on the topic...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects