Music therapy is different from music entertainment.
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The NDIS has laudable aims but how much funding will be available to enable participation in arts therapy?
Doctors and patients
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Antimicrobial resistance continues to be a growing concern for our future health. Whose responsibility is it to intervene?
Was the Liberal Party right about Medicare funding?
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Has the Coalition invested an average of $5 billion per year more than Labor into Medicare?
To vape or not to vape?
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New evidence gets to the heart of their cardio-vascular impact.
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Shoppers have had it with supermarket science and instead are embracing more holistic styles of eating.
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Having a baby in prison can be traumatic, so how can this issue be solved?
Time to ditch those bad habits?
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It’s the best time to make a fresh start.
You are what you eat.
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The world looks to the WHO for all health-related matters – but it is only part of the picture.
Will Treasurer Scott Morrison revive the Ghosts of Budgets Past in this year’s budget speech?
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Having made a commitment to reduce spending, the federal government will have its work cut out with this year’s budget, which may require revisiting policy ideas that have caused it pain in the past.
The types of bugs that may be calling your lungs home.
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Understanding the bugs in our lungs could help treat certain diseases, including asthma.
Parkrunners.
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A parish council’s decision to charge parkrunners for using their parks may seem like a storm in a tea cup – but it’s an important test case.
Feeling blessed?
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The prosperity gospel – a uniquely American strand of Christian theology – creates a dilemma for its adherents.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the COAG meeting with state and territory premiers and treasurers.
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Giving states the power to levy income tax won’t make up for the shortfall in health and education funding and it could mean poorer states are worse off.
There doesn’t need to be a choice between palliative care or assisted dying.
The assisted dying debate usually focuses on the moment of death - not those leading up to it.
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Eating more frozen food could help us reduce waste, beat the obesity epidemic and have more money in our pockets – what’s not to like.
Sometimes science needs to look at the bigger picture in order to best influence public policy.
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Science is about more than protons, genes and neurons. Sometimes a bigger picture can help us make better decisions when it comes to public policy.
Food scarcity as the world heats up.
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Climate change means the number of overweight and obese people will fall by 2050, but these benefits will be massively outdone by a rise in underweight and malnourished people.
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So-called ‘healthy towns’ will address child obesity and dementia, but the real killer remains at large.
Birth cohort studies are an invaluable resource for researchers.
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The Medical Research Council’s National Survey of Health and Development turns 70 this month, and is more ambitious than ever.
If you’re prone to snack when stressed, a pile of dirty dishes might put you over the edge.
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A new study highlights how the condition of your kitchen may affect unhealthy snacking.