Dispatches from the morgue: Toxicology tests don't tell the whole story of the opioid epidemic

Oct 16, 2018 15:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Drug overdoses killed more Tennesseans than ever last year, fentanyl deaths up 70 percent, a recent headline from my hometown newspaper, The Tennessean, proclaimed. Variations of this headline have become routine across...

Suicide behaviour in social circles increases risk for Kenyan men

Oct 16, 2018 14:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Suicide is increasingly recognised as a global health challenge by the World Health Organisation who call for society-wide efforts to prevent suicide. In a recent study, we set out to understand the drivers of suicide...

Australian study reveals the dangers of 'toxic masculinity' to men and those around them

Oct 16, 2018 13:47 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Young men who conform to traditional definitions of manhood are more likely to suffer harm to themselves, and do harm to others, according to a new survey of Australian men aged 18 to 30. This is the first major...

New autism guidelines aim to improve diagnostics and access to services

Oct 16, 2018 13:45 pm UTC| Health

New Australian autism guidelines, released today, aim to provide a nationally consistent and rigorous standard for how children and adults are assessed and diagnosed with autism, bringing to an end the different processes...

Heart of the Matter: how patient stories can be interwoven into art

Oct 09, 2018 14:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

When working with people in other disciplines whether surgeons, fellow engineers, nurses or cardiologists it can sometimes seem like everyone is speaking a different language. But collaboration between disciplines is...

Phantosmia: when you smell smells that aren't there

Oct 09, 2018 13:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Have you ever smelled odours other people cant smell? If you have, you may have experienced phantosmia the medical name for a smell hallucination. Phantosmia odours are often foul; some people smell faeces or sewage,...

For mothers who lose their babies, donating breast milk is a healing ritual

Oct 09, 2018 13:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Stillbirth and neonatal loss are painful in many ways. But increasingly, some of the more than 24,000 American women whose pregnancies end with the loss of their babies are choosing to do something they find both...