We can’t isolate human misery from its broader context. But while adverse environments play a role in the youth mental health crisis, culture is crucial too.
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If you’re aged 25 to 74, you might be due for a cervical cancer screening test. Here’s what to expect – and what’s changed in recent years.
Direct advertising of branded prescription drugs can lead patients to seek unnecessary medicines and treatments. Repealing the current law could help prevent this, and reduce health spending.
Women may be classed as high or low risk, and screened differently. But the path forward is not clear cut.
People who have a lower threshold for defining distress as a disorder are more likely to identify themselves as having a mental illness.
Having asymptomatic flat feet is not a problem and does not require treatment. It’s important to debunk this common myth.
Corporate medicine is hijacking feminist narratives around empowerment and women’s rights to market technologies, tests and treatments that aren’t backed by evidence.
Australia has among the highest antidepressant prescribing rates in the world.
People with low-risk prostate cancer are more likely to die from something else. Overdiagnosis and overtreatment can lead to life-changing complications.
Direct-to-consumer tests are products marketed to any consumer who is willing to pay, without going through their GP. But some could do more harm than good.
About one in six pregnant women in Australia are now diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Rates have more than doubled since the thresholds for diagnosis were changed.
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men. Although watchful waiting is appropriate for low-risk cases, many are diagnosed at an advanced stage because of racial health disparities.
Just having hyperactive, impulsive, and inattentive symptoms is not sufficient to qualify for a diagnosis of ADHD. Symptoms need to have a negative effect.
More and more healthy women and men are found to have thyroid nodules. What are they? And should you be worried about them?
As access to health care increases, there’s also a danger of getting too much of it.
Doctors don’t ‘check you for everything’, but are guided by what you personally would benefit from, based on your age and individual history.
With more than 850 changes to Medicare on the cards, the system needs time to adjust. Hasty implementation may mean patients face higher gap fees.
How do you know if your child’s behaviour is normal or a sign of ADHD? The answer is not so clear cut. And now we have the evidence to show the consequences.
In our new study, we’ve found the majority of news stories are failing to cover potential downsides of early detection tests. This could be perpetuating the problem of overdiagnosis.
The way most dentists in Australia are paid encourages over-servicing. So how do we know the treatment your dentist recommends is actually necessary?
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Assistant Professor, Bond University
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Clinical Professorial Research Fellow, Australian Women and Girls' Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Medicine, Bond University
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Assistant Professor | NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, Bond University
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Health, Bond University
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Bond 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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NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow in Reproductive Health, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
