Cancer is one of the most common public health threats facing Australians and accounts for nearly one-fifth of the disease burden in this country. The direct cost to the Australian community is approaching…
There aren't any miracle cures but there are a number of treatments that can reduce its severity.
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Switch on daytime television on any given day and you’d be forgiven for thinking there was a cure for the debilitating and dreaded condition, osteoarthritis.
Unfortunately, there’s not. And that’s not…
Government policies promoting economic growth have contributed to global crises of overconsumption such as obesity.
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Obesity has been on the rise for some 40 years and will continue to create an enormous burden on global health systems if governments around the world do not take decisive, policy-driven action, according…
Illness is inextricably linked to lifestyle stressors.
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Whichever way you look at it, men’s health in Australia is uniformly worse than women’s. Men die, on average, five years earlier than women born at the same time and are likely to experience more health…
Statutory guidelines only limit junk food advertising to children for about an hour a day.
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Industry self-regulation has failed to change the amount of fast food advertising targeting Australian children, according to new research from the Prevention Research Collaboration and NSW Cancer Council…
Marijuana provides effective relief in some cases where other therapies have failed.
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Lawmakers in the United States introduced legislation overnight to legalise marijuana while giving states the right to regulate, tax and control it. Meanwhile, Australia doesn’t even allow the use of medical…
Keeping weight off is much harder than losing weight in the first instance.
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Prevention is the cornerstone of society’s response to the current obesity epidemic. But even if no more people were to gain much more weight, those who are already obese face serious health problems…
Despite Buddhist origins, mindfulness meditation is a secular practice.
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Drugs to relieve pain for people with chronic diseases are expensive and can have harmful side effects. But there are alternatives that promise benefits exceeding pain relief.
Mindfulness meditation…
Dialysis is one of the only currently available treatments for kidney disease.
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a significant and growing global public health problem. But the creation of a new type of stem cell offers new hope for therapies and drugs for this worldwide problem…
