Drugs don't affect job seeking, so let's offer users help rather than take away their payments
Sep 10, 2019 20:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The Morrison government is having another shot at getting its proposal to drug test people on welfare through the Senate. Welfare, health and drug treatment experts have consistently opposed the proposal since it was...
Introvert? You may just be bad at recognising faces
Sep 10, 2019 20:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Although most of us can distinguish between and remember hundreds of different faces, some people are better at it than others. Super-recognisers can accurately identify faces even when they have only seen them briefly...
Does extra testosterone reduce your empathy?
Sep 10, 2019 20:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Cognitive empathy is the ability to recognise what another person is thinking or feeling, and one way it can be assessed in the lab is by using the reading the mind in the eyes test or eyes test, for short. This involves...
How rivalries between doctors and pharmacists turned into the 'turf war' we see today
Sep 10, 2019 20:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Would you like to go to your local pharmacy and buy prescription medicines without seeing the doctor first? Or would you like to collect your prescription medicines at the local supermarket? These are some of the...
Six things to know about cancer: from suicidal cells to hair loss from chemotherapy
Sep 06, 2019 07:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
News of the discovery of herbal cancer treatments has always piqued peoples interest. Recently, the media in Indonesia extensively reported claims of a cancer cure made from a plant native to Borneo and the use of soursop...
Working the system: 3 ways planners can defy the odds to promote good health for all of us
Sep 06, 2019 07:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Many of the chronic and costly diseases Australians face are related to how we live in cities. The speed of modern life clashes with poorly designed urban areas. As a result, health-promoting activities, such as regular...
How poor diet can can lead to blindness
Sep 02, 2019 23:18 pm UTC| Health
A poor diet of chips and crisps caused a teenage boy in England to become blind. The boy lets call him Jasper first visited his family GP complaining of tiredness when he was 14 years old. Tests showed he was anaemic...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects