Four ways children say their well-being can be improved

Nov 14, 2018 12:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Good emotional health as a child lays the foundation for good life satisfaction in adulthood. However, in the UK children and young peoples happiness with their life is now at its lowest since 2010. Our research team,...

Hospital discharges to ‘no fixed address’ – here's a much better way

Nov 14, 2018 11:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

Why treat people and send them back to the conditions that made them sick? Michael Marmot, The Health Gap, 2015 Homelessness is one of the most intractable and complex problems facing cities around the globe, says my...

Why natural depression therapies are better than pills

Nov 14, 2018 11:45 am UTC| Health

Winter is upon us. And with it comes the annual worsening of depressive symptoms. Sadly, in the United States, suicide continues to claim more lives than firearms, and suicide rates are increasing in nearly all states. The...

Drugs in bugs: 69 pharmaceuticals found in invertebrates living in Melbourne's streams

Nov 08, 2018 17:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Pharmaceuticals from wastewater are making their way into aquatic invertebrates and spiders living in and next to Melbournes creeks, according to our study published today in Nature Communications. We found...

Grief in victory: Therapeutic writing helped to heal a nation after the First World War

Nov 08, 2018 17:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Most people have seen images of Allied victory celebrations marking the end of the First World War, but was everyone in a celebratory mood? For many, grief overwhelmed relief. Grief was arguably the defining experience of...

How the opioid crisis is disrupting hospital care

Nov 08, 2018 17:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

… there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon… In Aldous Huxleys...

No butts – it’s time to help people with mental health conditions quit smoking

Nov 08, 2018 17:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Australians with mental health conditions are more than twice as likely to be smokers as the general population. About 22% of people with a mental health condition smoke daily compared to a national rate under 13%. And the...