ABC Health & Wellbeing By health reporter Olivia Willis, first posted 21 December 2018. It’s becoming something of a sombre routine: a young person dies from a drug overdose at a music festival, calls for pill testing are ignited, calls are summarily rejected, and we wait until another young person takes a gamble with their
Read moreFrom the New York Times May 5, 2006 Study Points to a Solution for Dread: Distraction By SANDRA BLAKESLEE For those who dread a colonoscopy or a root canal so much that they avoid it altogether, scientists have good news. The first study ever to look at where sensations of dread arise in the
Read moreBy David Ludwig, October 18, 2016 David Ludwig is professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, and the author of the book “Always Hungry? Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells and Lose Weight Permanently.” (CNN)Normally, science advances by trial and error. When an experiment fails, researchers question assumptions, formulate new ideas
Read morePlease note: This is an abbreviated version of the full scientific study. If you want to read the full version with all the scientific data and references, please contact Nathan. Dietary carbohydrate restriction as the first approach in diabetes management: Critical review and evidence base Richard D. Feinman Ph.D., Wendy K. Pogozelski Ph.D., Arne Astrup
Read morePet dogs often have a peaceful death that forestalls protracted suffering and pain. Why can’t we do the same for humans? Joseph Pierre is a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles and chief of the Hospital Psychiatry Division at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. He writes the Psych
Read moreABC Radio Melbourne, by Nicole Mills, 7 Aug 2018. A new breed of doulas are helping break down the fear around death, which they say shouldn’t be a confronting word. Carmen Barnsley from Melbourne said just like birth doulas, death doulas were there to provide support, knowledge and assistance during times of upheaval and uncertainty.
Read moreDeath awareness has a profound impact on our thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Robert W Firestone Ph.D. posted May 18, 2018 Although largely unconscious, the awareness of our finite existence, the fact that we all must die, has a profound impact on our thoughts, feelings, and behavior. The fear and emotional anguish associated with anticipating the
Read moreBy Charlotte Hamlyn in Basel, Switzerland, and Briana Shepherd, updated 11 May 2018. David Goodall has fulfilled his final wish and taken his life through assisted suicide in a Swiss clinic, in a powerful statement in favour of voluntary euthanasia. The story of the 104-year-old Perth academic, who is one of the first Australians
Read moreSarah and her husband Simon came to see me. They are in their late thirties, have been married for five years, and are now very concerned about their marijuana usage. They started smoking marijuana regularly as teenagers and realised a few months ago that they no longer had the ability to choose when they had
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