Pharma’s influence on healthcare must stop, experts say
An international group of experts, policy makers, clinicians and citizen representatives are tackling the pervasive financial conflicts of interest in health research, education and clinical practice, proposing a better way forward.
Health equality for Indigenous Australians still lagging dismally
Despite the government’s “Closing the Gap Strategy”, healthy equality for Indigenous Australians has not improved.
When bones and muscles both break down with aging
The diseases osteoporosis and sarcopenia are on the rise, creating a new syndrome: osteosarcopenia.
Psychiatrists could start prescribing diet
If you visit a psychiatrist one day in the not-too-distant future, you may be surprised to find that you are given dietary advice.
Printing prosthetic arms from plastic bottle tops
Proportion Food staff have joined a movement to collect plastic bottle tops.
Australia falling in healthy nation rankings
While Mediterranean regions are fighting it out for top healthy nation ranking, Australia is slipping.
Autophagy: the body’s spring cleaning
With aging, the body’s inbuilt mechanisms for sweeping out and recycling cellular metabolic waste products starts to wane. Kick-starting this inbuilt cleaning up process, known as “autophagy”, could be a key anti-aging target to slow the degenerative impacts of growing older.
From paleolithic times to now: how moving less impacts our health
Modern times have seen a resurgence in paleolithic diets – for better or worse – as people turn to hunter gatherers for lessons on lifestyle and health.
The silent killer: 1 in 3 patients at risk of malnutrition
One in three hospitalised adults in the US is at risk for malnutrition, a major analysis has found.
