Domestic abuse: the psychology of coercive control remains a legal battlefield

Mar 21, 2019 13:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Law

Not everyone was celebrating when Sally Challens murder conviction for killing her husband was quashed. The backlash on social media indicates we still have a long way to go before domestic abuse is properly...

Vaping is an urgent threat to public health

Mar 14, 2019 03:53 am UTC| Health

Youth are using e-cigarettes (also known as vaping devices) at a rapidly increasing rate a practice that constitutes an urgent threat to public health. Preliminary survey data suggests that, for the first time in 30...

Opioid crisis shows partnering with industry can be bad for public health

Mar 09, 2019 06:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

Show me the bodies! someone demanded at the end of my lecture a few years ago. As a scholar of public health ethics, law and policy, I had just warned an audience of professors and university administrators about the...

What pill is that? Cheap and easy pill testing could soon be in your own hands

Mar 09, 2019 06:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

Almost nine out of ten Australians take some form of medication, according to a recent poll. Much of that will be in tablet form, either prescribed or bought over the counter. But in the rush of daily life it can be...

A cure for HIV? Feasible but not yet realized

Mar 09, 2019 06:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

This week a team of scientists and physicians from the U.K. published news of a second HIV positive man, in London, who is in long-term (18-month) HIV remission after undergoing treatment for Hodgkins lymphoma. The...

A prison program in Connecticut seeks to find out what happens when prisoners are treated as victims

Mar 09, 2019 06:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

Prisons are full of people who were once victims of violence and abuse. As many as 75 percent of people who are in prison have experienced violence or childhood neglect, according to data from the Department of...

11 things you can do to adjust to losing that 1 hour of sleep this weekend

Mar 09, 2019 06:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

As clocks march ahead of time on March 10, 2019 and daylight saving time begins, there is a lot of anxiety around losing the hour of sleep and how to adjust to this change. Usually an hour seems like an insignificant...