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Overall rates of vaccine objection have remained largely unchanged since 2001.
Where investment loans were the fastest growing category of housing finance at the end of 2015, it is now the leading area of contraction.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s recent induction of both Chicago and NWA has sparked a debate about the definition of rock music. But should we be surprised? The Hall is an industry behemoth, not the voice of the people.
We need to focus on keeping people out of hospital by providing better co-ordinated and integrated care.
Ibuprofen can be obtained easily from supermarkets without consulting a health care professional. While this may make it seem it’s benign, it can have ill effects if used inappropriately.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has announced a new five dollar note, to great general derision. The Australian Mint has a proud history of excellent design, so why is this new note so wrong?
Early intervention in neurocognition and communication can address communication and cognition difficulties in survivors of childhood brain cancer and increase their quality of life.
In Australia, estimates suggest undesired harmful effects from medication or other intervention such as surgery occur in around 17% of hospital admissions. But blaming the doctors won’t help.
Contrary to popular belief, retirees are more likely to enjoy a healthier lifestyle than their counterparts who remain in workforce.
Australia has struggled to forge cultural ties with the Asia-Pacific region. But SBS’s deal to develop an Asian Eurovision could change this - there is more to the event than music, costume reveals and wind machines.
Many people today think of the 18th-century Enlightenment as an exciting season of reason, a black swan moment when new energies flowed, when the early modern world began to be turned upside down, thanks…
The view of many doctors that “I don’t let myself be influenced” might be the biggest barrier to change.
Just because they can’t prescribe medications that does not mean nurses have no influence on important decisions for patient care.
Unlike most other types of drugs, the dose a chemotherapy patient is given isn’t fixed. Instead it’s individually selected based on height, weight and underlying health.
Online retail customers demand support from every party involved in the product supply chain, but few are keeping up.
At a time when thin, muscly men dominate popular media, male ‘plus size’ models are all too rare. Yet the average Australian man is not lean and stringy – imagine if he saw himself in ad campaigns?
Changes to the way tourists on the Working Holiday Maker visa are taxed will deter them and may put more pressure on labour shortages.
If states controlled more of their school funding, competition could lead to innovation where the best ideas are adopted nationwide.
We asked our experts to appraise the political and policy performances of the federal cabinet and shadow cabinet.
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Professor of Sociology & Director, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
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Professor, Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Health and Medical Humanities, University of Sydney
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Co-Director, Health and Policy, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow in Youth Mental Health, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor and Psychiatrist, Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Mathematics, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of the School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, University of Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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School of Life and Environmental Sciences Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Honorary Professor, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
