by Wen-Qiang He, James Smallcombe, Natasha Nassar and Ollie Jay, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Extreme heat is increasingly common in Australia and around the world and besides making…
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Transform the daily grind to make life more interesting—three strategies to help you attain the good life
Credit: Hachette Book Group Imagine it’s Monday morning, too cold and too dark, but once that alarm goes off, you know you’ve got to rally. The kids have to get…
Nutrient profiling systems use algorithms to simplify picking healthy groceries
Credit: Australian Government, Canberra Imagine a world where food on grocery store shelves is ranked by its healthiness, with simple, research-backed scores. In some countries, that world already exists. Nutrient…
FDA approves Tryngolza as adjunct to diet for familial chylomicronemia syndrome
Tryngolza (olezarsen) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as an adjunct to diet to reduce triglycerides in adults with familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS), which can lead…
Screen time these holidays doesn’t need to be a bad thing
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain With five weeks of school summer holidays (that’s around 25 days of weekday activities to organize), being online is a major attraction for most kids and…
We don’t all need regular skin cancer screening—but you can know your risk and check yourself
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Australia has one of the highest skin cancer rates globally, with nearly 19,000 Australians diagnosed with invasive melanoma—the most lethal type of skin cancer—each year. While…
Infections, malaria, malnutrition behind DR Congo deaths: WHO
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Malaria and common respiratory infections, compounded by malnutrition, caused an hitherto unexplained spate of deaths in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization…
Disparities seen in firearm, motor vehicle crash fatalities in U.S. youth
Disparities exist in firearm and motor vehicle crash (MVC) fatalities among youth in the United States, according to a study published online Dec. 23 in JAMA Pediatrics. Lois K. Lee,…
Digital health care consultations not enough for safe assessment of tonsillitis
Credit: Infectious Diseases (2024). DOI: 10.1080/23744235.2024.2434878 Tonsillitis is a common reason for visits to the doctor and prescriptions of antibiotics in primary care. To determine whether a patient needs antibiotics,…
Cooking garlic and onions at high heat can form trans fats, study finds
Natural sulfur compounds promote formation of trans fatty acids (TFAs) during heating. Credit: Masaki Honda / Meijo University Trans-fatty acids (TFA) are a major cause of cardiovascular diseases. These harmful…
