Health

Health: Australian teens not getting enough sleep

December 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

A study of the sleep patterns of Australian children and adolescents has found that around a quarter of 12-15 year-olds and half of 16-17 year-olds are not getting enough sleep on school nights to meet national sleep guidelines. [...]

Food system is failing us: Countries facing both obesity and undernutrition

December 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

According to the Lance, more than one in three low- and middle-income countries face both extremes of malnutrition with twin presence of obesity and undernutrition reflects [...]

Report: Many young gay men already had an STI before taking PrEP

December 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

Many young gay men are taking action to prevent getting HIV and spreading HIV by taking preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP), however according to new Australian led research a lot [...]

Antibiotic resistance is an even greater challenge in remote Indigenous communities

December 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

Asha Bowen, Telethon Kids Institute and Steven Tong, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity Antibiotic-resistant infections already cause at least 700,000 [...]

Kids born from frozen embryo IVF may be at higher cancer risk

December 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

Kids born from frozen embryo IVF may be at higher cancer risk. Recent Danish study has found that kids born from frozen embryo IVF may be at higher cancer risk. [...]

Research: 40% of Australians Don’t Wash Their Hands Before Preparing Food

October 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Food Safety Information Council published new research suggesting that more than 20 percent of Australians don’t always clean their hands after going to the toilet. [...]

Is your can of Coke killing you? – Maybe

September 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

You reach for your can of Coke. It’s feels nice and cool, you open it, you hear that fizz and you are anticipating it’s refreshing taste. But, are you drinking [...]

Medical care in Aussie aged care facilities falling behind

May 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

THE uncoupling of health care from aged care is a worrying trend that “does not serve the rights of older people in residential care to equitable access to health care”, [...]

Words hurt…fat-shaming leads to people hating their own bodies

May 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

“…no human can tame the tongue. It is unruly and injurious…” James 3:8 “Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me” How [...]

Mothers who smoke more likely to have short daughters

March 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

Research done by the Liggins Institute has that a woman Smoking during pregnancy can increase the chance of daughters growing up short and developing obesity as adults by 50 [...]