Health
Mental Health Week: when anxiety isn’t ‘normal’
Feeling panic over small things, constant checking and over-checking whether the door is locked; these are not ‘normal’ ways to......
The female body: image, censorship and surgery
A new Australian study has found women as young as fifteen are requesting labiaplasty surgery from GPs in Australia, with......
Finding Lithium: a story of modern mental health pioneer
In the years before the Second World War, medical treatments for mental health were virtually non-existent. Moved by a desire......
Antibiotic Resistance in Syria
In the last five and half years, Syrian hospital workers have had to contend with their fair share of horrors.......
Technology reshapes Indigenous healthcare in outback Australia
Smartphones are quickly turning into our very own portable GP’s. These days you’re able to monitor your everyday steps, input......
Parkinson’s Stem Cell trial brings cautious hope
A new treatment for Parkinson’s disease being trialed out of the Royal Melbourne Hospital is bringing cautious hope to sufferers......
Experts criticise new ice prevention program
Experts warn the new Australian Anti Ice Campaign, which has former ice addicts sharing their own confronting experiences with high......
RUOK? Day: From crisis to coping
Writer Mark Elder has taken his experience as a crisis line operator and used it as inspiration for his new......
Preventing overdose deaths: Safe injecting sites in Toronto
In a bid to reduce the number of deaths by drug overdose, the city of Toronto in Canada has voted......
Avoiding preservatives by going back to basics
When you can’t eat the food in the supermarket, what do you do? Valerie Pearson, author of Home Cheese Making......