How robots can help us embrace a more human view of disability

May 04, 2017 11:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Health

When dealing with the otherness of disability, the Victorians in their shame built huge out-of-sight asylums, and their legacy of them and us continues to this day. Two hundred years later, technologies offer us an...

Food as medicine: why do we need to eat so many vegetables and what does a serve actually look like?

May 03, 2017 01:59 am UTC| Health

This is the first article in a three-part package food as medicine, exploring how food prevents and cures disease. Most Australian adults would know theyre meant to eat two or more serves of fruit and five or more...

Why brain stimulation isn't what it's cracked up to be

May 01, 2017 14:41 pm UTC| Health

Interest in electrical brain stimulation has skyrocketed in recent years, both in the popular media and scientific literature. Scientists and clinicians are using the non-invasive and cheap technique to treat various...

Your sons and your daughters: mental health in the age of overtime

May 01, 2017 04:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

This piece is republished with permission from Millennials Strike Back, the 56th edition of Griffith Review. Articles are a little longer than most published on The Conversation, and present an in-depth analysis of the...

The patients we do not see

Apr 30, 2017 14:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

In medicine, we speak of seeing patients when we are rounding in the hospital or caring for those who come to our clinics. But what about those people who may be sick but do not seek care? What is our responsibility to the...

Teenagers who are both bully and victim are more likely to have suicidal thoughts

Apr 28, 2017 00:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

Most research into teen bullying tends to focus only on the victim. This means we know little about how the bully is affected. A new Australian study shows that teenagers who have been both a victim and a bully are at...

Genetic surveillance and why it's critical in the fight against antimalarial drug resistance

Apr 25, 2017 07:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

Efforts to tackle malaria infections over the past decades have yielded impressive results across the tropics, so much so that full elimination is now a public health priority for many malaria endemic...