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Many young people with inflammatory bowel disease choose to conceal their diagnosis from friends and colleagues.
The pandemic has revealed the complexity of new and ongoing health crises. Post-secondary institutions need to respond to this complexity with an interdisciplinary approach to teaching health issues.
Stories featuring demons and sex date back to early Judaism and Christianity. They inspired the witch craze and continue to be believed by many conservative Christians in America.
Images of religious buildings being used to treat the sick shouldn't come as surprise. The practice has a long tradition, dating back to the Middle Ages.
A first-century B.C. Roman poet and philosopher, Lucretius was worried that our fear of death could lead to irrational beliefs and actions that could harm society.
The flu shot is a bargain – and people are more likely to get it if they know that.
Public figures, authors, artists and journalists have long written about their experience of dying. But why do they do it? And what do we gain?
Fighting off infection comes with predictable psychological and behavioral features. Now researchers suggest an emotion coordinates this response to help you get better. They call it 'lassitude.'
Stigmas surrounding mental health can create difficult or even dangerous situations for employees struggling with mental illness.
Despite awareness of the importance of hand washing, most people often fail to do it properly.
We asked five experts if your mental state can affect how well you recover from illness and disease. Five out of five said yes.
Personalised nutrition has the power to save lives.
If the curative thesis is true, then most medicine throughout history -- as well as much contemporary medicine -- isn't medicine at all.
Reports of demonic possession are once again on the rise. But during the devil’s last apogee in early modern Europe, demonic afflictions were taken seriously by both priests and physicians.
Just 82% of young Australians have insurance when they travel overseas. But even if you have insurance, you might not be covered for everything.
There is a gap in most people's knowledge – experiential poverty – about how to deal with death.
Alexander Fleming's work has helped countless people over the last nine decades.
Handshakes may be polite, but they're also a sure fire way to transfer lots of bacteria from one hand to another.
Compounds in your breath could help AI detect illnesses, including different cancers.
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Jayashri Kulkarni is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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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 Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, Haematologist/BMT Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Director, Praxis Australia, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Tourism, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Health and Medical Humanities, University of Sydney
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Reader in Cancer Care, University of Stirling
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Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University
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Senior Lecturer In Academic General Practice, Deakin University
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Senior Research Fellow in Public Health and Wellbeing, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Director of the Institute for the Future of Knowledge and Professor of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg
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Lecturer in Food Safety, Food Quality and Environmental Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Swansea University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University - Newark
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Senior Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, UCL
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Professor of Philosophy, University of Bristol
