Want to be healthy and happy? Choose a conscientious partner
Jun 19, 2019 02:21 am UTC| Life Health
Your partners personality can influence your life in all sorts of ways. For example, studies have shown that a conscientious partner is good...
Summer is coming! Here's why you need to protect your children's eyes
Jun 19, 2019 02:00 am UTC| Health
Should we buy sunglasses for children? And if so, how do we choose a quality product? Its a question that I get a lot in clinics. I reply that it is good to remember what the suns effects on eye health are, and how they...

The neuroscience of terrorism: how we convinced a group of radicals to let us scan their brains
Jun 13, 2019 01:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The young man sitting in the waiting room of our neuroimaging facility wearing skinny jeans and trainers looked like a typical Spanish 20-year-old of Moroccan origin. Yassine* was bouncy, chatting up the research...
Food label nutrition facts matter to you, but don't tell you much about your gut microbes
Jun 13, 2019 01:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
It seems like every day a new study is published that links the bacteria in the gut to a specific disease or health condition. The allure of research like ours and that of other groups is that it might eventually be...

Menopause? Start estrogen replacement therapy sooner, to reduce heart disease
Jun 07, 2019 16:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Hormone replacement therapy for post-menopausal women was once seen as a fountain of youth. Studies showed regular estrogen supplementation decreased the risk of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in...
It's perfectly legal for doctors to charge huge amounts for surgery, but should it be allowed?
Jun 07, 2019 16:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Australias Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy will investigate how to better protect patients from doctors charging really unjustifiable, excessive fees of up to A$10,000 or more for medical procedures. Murphy said it...
Antibiotic resistance is not new – it existed long before people used drugs to kill bacteria
Jun 07, 2019 16:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Imagine a world where your odds of surviving minor surgery were one to three. A world in which a visit to the dentist could spell disaster. This is the world into which your great-grandmother was born. And if humanity...