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The threshold for diagnosing common conditions such as high blood pressure, chronic kidney disease and gestational diabetes have all lowered in recent years. But for whose benefit?
Most vitamins and other nutritional supplements are unlikely to prevent chronic disease. Invest in good quality foods, sleep and exercise instead.
From romance to job interviews, people living with obesity are less likely to be successful.
Sitting too much might be killing you – this is what you can do about it.
From weekend walks with your doctor to free gym memberships, there is a global movement afoot.
Sometimes the difference between intending to do something and doing it is a little nudge. Now researchers are designing apps that nudge patients with chronic diseases to change their behavior.
The age of the US is increasing, and with it, new expectations of health and happiness. Is the US prepared for the wave of baby boomers who will live long and want to be as healthy as they do?
The four million Australians who suffer from mental illness have a shorter life expectancy.
New research shows women receive sub-optimal care after they have a heart attack and are twice as likely than men to die six months after the attack.
The obesity epidemic, the flu epidemic, the opioid epidemic… in the 21st century, everything seems to be an “epidemic”. But what does the term actually mean?
Halting the rapid rise in inflammatory bowel disease will require a proactive approach to medicine, and a focus on the gut.
New research suggests omega-3s from seafood to be more effective at reducing breast cancer risk than those from plant-based sources.
Australia’s complex and awkward system of workplace income support is a barrier to working with an illness or injury.
By focusing on one nerve, researchers have found a way to vastly improve chronic patients’ health and wellbeing.
Sugar taxes fail to tackle the root of the problem – the production and marketing of foods that cause chronic disease.
Australia loses nearly A$2 billion of GDP every year due to people with cancer leaving the workforce.
Even those who regularly clean their teeth typically don’t brush for the recommended two minutes.
Four in five of us have a “biological” age older than our real age, which means we have at least one risk factor that is higher than the number set as “normal”.
Humans are much worse at guessing risk than we think we are. Now there is an app designed to help us avoid rushing toward an early grave.
Top contributors
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Professor, Health Policy, Victoria University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Health Policy Lead, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professor of Health Promotion; Scientific Director of the Healthy Populations Institute, Dalhousie University
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Associate lecturer, Nutritional Biochemistry, University of Hertfordshire
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Chercheur au Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec et Professeur titulaire au Département de médecine, Université Laval
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Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Deakin University
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Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
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Executive Director, George Institute Australia, George Institute for Global Health
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Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Deakin University
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Medicine, The University of Melbourne
