Some experts think the problem is how doctors and society treat people who hear things, not the voices themselves. Roc Morin, Nov 5, 2014 “The first time that I heard this voice, I was very much frightened,” the prisoner testified. “When I heard it for the third time, I recognized that it was the voice
Read moreRed meat is good for you; red meat is bad for you. Sugar is killing us; sugar’s still better than artificial sweeteners. Fat is bad; fat is good. It seems like every day there’s a new piece of health advice in the news that contradicts the advice we got yesterday. Add to that a barrage
Read moreAnahad O’Connor Published: September 13, 2016 – The Age The sugar industry in the US paid scientists in the 1960s to downplay the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show. The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the University
Read moreABC Health & Wellbeing By Sophie Scott, 12 Jul 2016. In the business of our everyday existence, how do we create a life with meaning? At the start of this year, I wrote about feeling vulnerable and losing touch with my authentic self. I was feeling like I had lost a sense of meaning in
Read moreABC 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 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 moreBy health reporter Olivia Willis, ABC Health & Wellbeing Bowel cancer kills conversation, but it doesn’t have to kill you. That’s the message behind a new campaign urging Australians aged 50-74 to use their government-funded, home-delivered bowel cancer screening kit as soon as they receive it in the mail. Currently, only 39 per cent
Read moreFrom Melissa Joulwan, Aug 24th, 2016 – The New Potato We’ve all done it! We mindlessly eat foods that we don’t want. But they’re there: the so-so cake at a co-worker’s birthday party. The bottomless baskets of tortilla chips at a favorite Mexican restaurant. Bagels in the breakroom on Wednesdays. Maybe even dinner in front
Read moreby Max Koslowski 30 April 2018 The first numbers are in for Groovin The Moo’s pill testing experiment, and lives may have been saved after the trial operation found potentially deadly substances in two different samples. Matt Noffs, one of the people behind the Australia-first trial, also let on that half of the drugs tested included
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