How women's experience of birth during COVID-19 can help improve childbirth in future

Jul 01, 2021 04:57 am UTC| Health

Over the past 15 months we have avoided hugs and handshakes, stayed at home and quarantined, and experienced important life events alone. We have been reduced to family bubbles keeping away from friends, acquaintances and...

Poor sleep is really bad for your health. But we found exercise can offset some of these harms

Jul 01, 2021 04:53 am UTC| Health

Despite the well-known links between poor sleep and poorer health, getting enough good quality sleep has become a luxury in modern society. Many of us struggle to improve our sleep, while amid the COVID pandemic and...

Vaccine Rollout 2.0: Australia needs to do 3 things differently

Jul 01, 2021 03:19 am UTC| Health

Australias vaccine rollout started just over four months ago. It has not gone well, to put it mildly. To date, only 24% of the population have had at least one dose of a vaccine, and nearly 5% 1.2 million people have...

Which COVID vaccine is best? Here's why that's really hard to answer

Jun 20, 2021 12:25 pm UTC| Health

With the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines accelerating, people are increasingly asking which vaccine is best? According to Google Trends, more and more people want to know. Even if we tried to answer this question,...

Writing can improve mental health – here's how

Jun 20, 2021 12:18 pm UTC| Health

Ernest Hemingway famously said that writers should write hard and clear about what hurts. Although Hemingway may not have known it at the time, research has now shown that writing about what hurts can help improve our...

Too few women get to invent – that's a problem for women's health

Jun 20, 2021 12:01 pm UTC| Health

MacArthur Genius and MIT professor Linda Griffith has built an epic career as a scientist and inventor, including growing a human ear on a mouse. She now spends her days unpacking the biological mechanisms underlying...

What if I can't get in for my second Pfizer dose and the gap is longer than 3 weeks?

Jun 20, 2021 11:57 am UTC| Health

Bookings for the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine have been halted in Victoria this week, amid shortages of the vaccine. Some Victorians whove had their first Pfizer dose already will need to wait six weeks to get their...