The flossing flap: Mind your dentist, and floss every night
Aug 10, 2016 14:07 pm UTC| Health
To floss or not to floss? has become a big question in the past week. News reports have conflicted, leading to confusion. First came a story from the Associated Press on Aug. 2 that the Departments of Agriculture and...
What is age-related macular degeneration?
Aug 10, 2016 05:16 am UTC| Health
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the main cause of blindness in Australia. One in seven people aged over 50 have some signs of macular degeneration. You are reading this article because of your macula, which is...
Medicines to treat side effects of other medicines? Sometimes less is more beneficial
Aug 09, 2016 09:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
About two-thirds of people who are 75 years and older take five medicines or more. This is known as polypharmacy. Many of these people are on more than ten medicines a day (hyperpolypharmacy). It can be appropriate to...
Aug 08, 2016 05:50 am UTC| Health
Having a cough can be distressing. It can disrupt sleep or even worsen urinary incontinence. So its not surprising 7% of Australians have reached for a cough or cold medicine in the last two weeks. But with so many...
From medical treatment to diet and lifestyle choice: how to spot unreliable health research
Aug 08, 2016 04:46 am UTC| Health
One day were told that coffee causes cancer, the next that it protects us from it. Does this sound familiar? Were all bombarded by confusing and contradictory health information every day supposedly based on scientific...
I'm an OB-GYN treating women with Zika: This is what it's like
Aug 06, 2016 10:28 am UTC| Health
As a medical student, I remember reading books about the early days of the HIV epidemic and wondering what it was like for doctors to take care of patients who had a new, unknown disease. It seemed to me like it would be...
Latinos face digital divide in health care
Aug 06, 2016 08:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
When considering Latinos, educators often struggle with how to close the achievement gap. That gap is often defined as a disparity in academic success between native English speakers and those for whom Spanish was their...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects