Reaching out for reassurance every time you have a doubt, or problem, might seem helpful in the short term. But learning to face uncertainty is essential to managing our mental health.
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If you could take a test that would reveal the diseases you and your family might be more likely to get, would you want to do it?
One would think governments would do all they could to ensure palliative care is available to all who need it. This is not the case in Australia today.
Some parents think their four-year-old boy’s emotional outbursts and aggressive behaviour can be blamed on their hormones. Here’s why that’s a myth.
Teaching students to care for the dying requires specific skills that the student may not encounter in their ordinary clinical teaching.
The drug we know induces the best death for suffering patients is still illegal in Australia.
Timely and appropriate investigation of suspicious symptoms, especially blood in the urine, is crucial for the accurate and early diagnosis of bladder cancer.
Children can have heart disease too, and many are born with it.
Although it may appear you’re “switching off” when you fall asleep, the brain is far from inactive.
Recently announced changes to private health insurance reinforce the primacy of hospitals for mental health issues. This is despite many inquiries recommending better community mental-health care.
The government’s latest changes to private health insurance won’t affect the cost of premiums.
The “love hormone” system starts to develop in the womb and is important in helping us deal with stress.
Sure, you have to die of something, but you may not have to die so soon - and you could be healthier, wealthier and happier in the meantime.
There are two schools of thought to explain people’s height phobias: evolutionary and behavioural.
Many smokers still think filters make cigarettes safer. But they actually make them more harmful, and the tobacco industry has known about this for a long time.
Whether a 10% discount is enough to increase health insurance take-up by young people, many of whom are in precarious employment arrangements or unemployed, is a question for the marketeers.
Children with glue ear constantly struggle to hear at school, which may leave them frustrated, disengaged and unlikely to reach their full potential.
A reader wants to know why our noses run just because it’s cold.
Wine has long been known for its disinfecting and cleansing properties. So can it kill flu and other bugs? And what about other types of alcohol?
There is no clear-cut definition of what mindfulness actually is. This has potentially serious implications.
Only around 10% of new drugs in development make it onto the market. A drug needs to go through animal trials, and then four phases of human trials to be deemed suitable for use in patients.
A randomised controlled trial is the best way to compare a new treatment with the standard treatment. And randomising trial participants is a core feature of the experiment.
If a child is old enough to ask about suicide, then they’re probably old enough for a discussion about it.
The debate about the nature of early trauma memories and their recovery isn’t new.
“Nangs” are cheap, legal and easy to get - but like most drugs, they are also highly dangerous.