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There’s no need for children with food allergies to miss out this Easter. Here’s how to include them in your celebrations and help keep them safe.
At first glance, Australia looks to be tracking poorly compared to the rest of the world. However, context is really important here.
We need to re-analyse data from China and look further afield if we are to have a more complete picture of what happened in 2019. Just keep the politics out of it.
Specific exercise therapy is the most recommended treatment for osteoarthritis, and it could save New Zealand’s health system $20 million each year by reducing other costly and ineffective treatments.
Microdosing involves taking a low dose of a psychedelic drug to enhance performance, or reduce symptoms of stress and anxiety. Here’s what our research shows.
Toxic and hyper-masculine workplaces are linked with a variety of health issues including anxiety, depression, burnout, hair loss, insomnia, and headaches.
It’s a mixture of your genes which you get from your parents, and also your life experience.
It’s all well and good to be able to connect cases through genomic sequencing. But it’s important to be able to connect them epidemiologically as well.
Alcohol is not the reason people harass, bully or intimidate. The fundamental problem behind those behaviours is attitudes to women. Testing on-site doesn’t address those deeper cultural issues.
For people who are immunodeficient, the usual controls of the immune system don’t work as well. This can affect how they respond to vaccines. But this group should still get the COVID jab.
Flood-related stress can have a negative impact on pregnant mothers and their unborn babies. But our research found there are many strategies that can limit the harm.
Pausing COVID-19 vaccine rollouts can backfire. There are better ways to manage safety issues while they’re being investigated.
People who have had COVID will still benefit from having a COVID vaccine. Here’s why.
Scientists around the world are trying to come up with universal coronavirus vaccines to combat the emergence of variants. But what are these vaccines and are they even possible?
Almost a quarter of a million New Zealanders have type 2 diabetes. If nothing is done to change the current trajectory, the number will increase by 70-90% within 20 years, warns a new report.
We don’t yet know what this winter’s influenza season will bring. But here’s what we can expect from the 2021 crop of flu vaccines.
Blame your ears, your eyes and your brain. But mainly your ears!
We can make the case against using medicinal cannabis to manage chronic pain by debunking three myths.
From today, around 1,000 clinics around the country can begin vaccinating eligible Australians.
The expert advice is to never drive, walk, or ride through flood waters. Unfortunately, however, this is advice often not heeded. Research on psychology and floods reveals clues as to why.
The media often reflects personal and professional biases and community misunderstandings about trauma.
Unless you’ve lived through it, it’s hard to understand how stressful a catastrophic flood can be - both in the moment and long after the event. That’s especially true for vulnerable populations.
New data shows 18% of workers in Victoria’s stone benchtop industry have silicosis. Ignorance and complacency around the risks of working with artificial stone are seeing tradies paying a high price.
The government should be explicit about what proportion of the population will need to be vaccinated to warrant border reopening. Australians could then measure progress towards that goal.