What if flat feet were…normal? Debunking a myth about injuries

Apr 23, 2024 08:06 am UTC| Health

For many decades, if not centuries, researchers, medical professionals and the general population have believed that people with flat feet are more prone to developing a variety of problems. Specifically, having flat...

Why the government’s haste in changing the health system could come back to haunt it

Apr 19, 2024 06:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

Since coming into power, the coalition government has adopted a simple but shrewd see-how-fast-we-can-move political strategy. However, in the health sector this need for speed entails policy risks that could come back...

Type 2 diabetes is not one-size-fits-all: Subtypes affect complications and treatment options

Apr 19, 2024 06:21 am UTC| Health

You may have heard of Ozempic, the miracle drug for weight loss, but did you know that it was actually designed as a new treatment to manage diabetes? In Canada, diabetes affects approximately 10 per cent of the general...

Fermented foods sustain both microbiomes and cultural heritage

Apr 18, 2024 06:25 am UTC| Health

Many people around the world make and eat fermented foods. Millions in Korea alone make kimchi. The cultural heritage of these picklers shape not only what they eat every time they crack open a jar but also something much,...

Surgery won’t fix my chronic back pain, so what will?

Apr 12, 2024 03:19 am UTC| Health

This weeks ABC Four Corners episode Pain Factory highlighted that our health system is failing Australians with chronic pain. Patients are receiving costly, ineffective and risky care instead of effective, low-risk...

Personalized cancer treatments based on testing drugs quickly leads to faster treatment, better outcomes

Apr 12, 2024 03:19 am UTC| Health

Despite many efforts to find better, more effective ways to treat cancer, it remains a leading cause of death by disease among children in the U.S. Cancer patients are also getting younger. Cancer diagnoses among those...

Eye infections might seem like a minor complaint – but in some cases they can cause blindness and even death

Apr 12, 2024 03:18 am UTC| Health

When you think of eye infections, what comes to mind? Puffy, swollen bruised feeling eyelids that get glued together with gunk overnight? That feeling of having grit in your eye that cant be cleaned away? Eye infections...