Fermented foods sustain both microbiomes and cultural heritage
Apr 18, 2024 06:25 am UTC| Health
Many people around the world make and eat fermented foods. Millions in Korea alone make kimchi. The cultural heritage of these picklers shape not only what they eat every time they crack open a jar but also something much,...
Surgery won’t fix my chronic back pain, so what will?
Apr 12, 2024 03:19 am UTC| Health
This weeks ABC Four Corners episode Pain Factory highlighted that our health system is failing Australians with chronic pain. Patients are receiving costly, ineffective and risky care instead of effective, low-risk...
Apr 12, 2024 03:19 am UTC| Health
Despite many efforts to find better, more effective ways to treat cancer, it remains a leading cause of death by disease among children in the U.S. Cancer patients are also getting younger. Cancer diagnoses among those...
Apr 12, 2024 03:18 am UTC| Health
When you think of eye infections, what comes to mind? Puffy, swollen bruised feeling eyelids that get glued together with gunk overnight? That feeling of having grit in your eye that cant be cleaned away? Eye infections...
Apr 08, 2024 06:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Cognitive decline and dementia already affect more than 55 million people worldwide. This number is projected to skyrocket over the next few decades as the global population ages. There are certain risk factors of...
Gut microbiome: meet Clostridium butyricum – the bacteria that helps keep us feeling our best
Apr 08, 2024 06:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Our friend here, Clostridium butyricum (also known as C butyricum), is one of the hardest working microbes living in our gut. Without its exhaustive work, we might find ourselves constantly feeling a little under the...
How to look after your mental health while packing up Mum or Dad’s home
Apr 01, 2024 04:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
So Mum or Dad has died, or moved to aged care, and now youve got to pack up their house. Its a huge job and youre dreading it. Its normal to feel grief, loss, guilt, exhaustion or even resentment at being left with this...
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