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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-05-11

  The use of mind-altering drugs in aged and disability care

The latest health news, including new standards of care for the use of psychotropic drugs in people with cognitive decline or disabilities. 
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-05-11

  Can sexuality affect your life expectancy?

Researchers from Harvard found lesbian women died 20 per cent sooner than their heterosexual cohort, and bisexual women were even worse off, dying 37 per cent sooner.
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-05-11

  What are nanoplastics doing to our health?

These tiny plastics have the ability to cross biological barriers and cause havoc, but they're very hard to detect.Scientists are trying to overcome hurdles so we can find out how nanoplastics interact with the human body.
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-05-11

  Mailbag: Grief and kidney transplants

A look at some of the Health Report correspondence this week, including some clarity of grief disorder, and the rules around organ donation.
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-05-08

  How much time should you spend sitting (or standing)?

Researchers have unpacked the optimal amount of time you should spend sitting versus standing for your health.
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-05-04

  The search for flu vaccine 'holy grail'

Each year the flu vaccine is reformulated to target the current strains of influenza A and B that are circulating globally — but what if it didn't need to be?Melbourne researchers have identified consistent fragments from influenza B that could tell yo...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-05-04

  Disordered eating risk in IBS treatment

For people with irritable bowel syndrome, one of the most common interventions is an elimination diet to try to identify a trigger.  But that diet might carry its own risk – of triggering disordered eating – a new study warns.Dr Caroline Tuck is a seni...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-05-04

  Health Report mailbag

A look at some of the Health Report correspondence this week, featuring "stoolgazing" and when to collect your own samples… or not.You can email us at healthreport@abc.net.au
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-05-04

  What is prolonged grief disorder and how is it treated

While grief effects everyone differently, a small group of people can find themselves 'stuck' in intense grief.It's not depression, it's known as prolonged grief disorder.UNSW Professor Richard Bryant and his team compared cognitive behaviour therapy w...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-05-04

  A 'Health At Every Size' approach doesn't work on its own

If you’ve spent much time in the wellness space these past few years, you’ve probably heard of Health At Every Size – a movement that prioritises healthy habits over the size or shape of your body.But while many people have found it freeing, a new revi...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author