Who's listening? The ethical and legal issues of developing a health app
Dec 10, 2016 10:00 am UTC| Technology Health Law
From large companies to tiny startups, many people are working on creating apps to monitor and improve our health. The technical skill needed is widely recognised and developers are becoming more aware of the need to...
New evidence gives supporters of chiropractic a headache
Dec 10, 2016 02:40 am UTC| Health
A paper was published and much discussed online recently which demonstrates all the problems that I and other critics have with the way research is done and interpreted in the world of chiropractic. The study looked at the...
Time scarcity is a slippery slope to inactivity
Dec 09, 2016 03:49 am UTC| Life Health
Even though most Australians know we need to exercise more, many of us dont. Our recent study suggests this is often due to diminishing availability of time. We found that among otherwise healthy people, becoming time...
Masked hypertension is a silent killer – we must do more to detect it
Dec 08, 2016 13:15 pm UTC| Health
Some people with normal blood pressure have elevated blood pressure when their doctor takes the reading. This phenomenon is known as white coat hypertension. But theres an opposite phenomenon, known as masked hypertension,...
Periodontitis: why we need a vaccine for gum disease
Dec 08, 2016 10:40 am UTC| Health
Scientists from The University of Melbourne have developed a world-first vaccine to treat gum disease. Their research, published in the journal NPJ Vaccines, has so far only tested the vaccine in mice. If successful in...
Hold pornography to account – not education programs – for children's harmful sexual behaviour
Dec 08, 2016 10:31 am UTC| Life Health
Pornography has many negative impacts on children and young people. And increased sexual violence among children is only the tip of the iceberg. Evidence suggests the majority of young people have been exposed to...
What you need to know to understand risk estimates
Dec 07, 2016 23:32 pm UTC| Health
Interpreting health (or any other) risk estimates reported in the media is not straightforward. Even health professionals can get tripped up trying to make sense of these statistics, so it is no wonder the public can...
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