Health
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Burned-out junior doctors fear they’ll accidentally harm patients
More than 61 per cent of doctors in training were concerned they would make a clinical error due to fatigue…
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It’s 25 years since we redefined autism – here’s what we’ve learnt
The manual is the clinical “bible” that defines the criteria for the diagnosis of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions, and was…
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Why being kind could help you live longer
Give you a warm glow perhaps, or a feeling of well-being? Lauren Turner BBC News While that may be true,…
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Bilingualism and dementia: how some patients lose their second language and rediscover their first
But what happens when the present is experienced through a different language than the one spoken in childhood? Authors The…
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‘You’ll get through it’: Three Victorians tell an optimistic tale about mental illness
Driving into work as a pharmacist he’d be brimming with rage and irritation and he had no idea why. Miki…
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Getting by on six hours?
They’ve been called the “sleepless elite”. Sophie Aubrey The Age Barack Obama, Julia Gillard and Elon Musk would get six…
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Cocaine use has become ‘almost like having a packet of Tayto with a pint’
“A gram costs about €50-€80. The average purity is 15-20 per cent, which is the highest it has been for…
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Scientists Now Know How Sleep Cleans Toxins From the Brain
Laura Lewis and her team of researchers have been putting in late nights in their Boston University lab. Sara Harrison…
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Teen self-harm: rates have dramatically decreased in Denmark – here’s what other countries can learn
In the UK and Ireland, increases began around the time of the 2008 economic crash and show no sign of…
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When you say you’re ‘stressed’ at work, you could be disguising a more specific problem
For many of us, it’s a number we’d need more than two hands to count. Anna Kelsey – Sugg &…
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Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’
Stifling international regulations have been blamed for delaying the approval of a food that could have helped save millions of…
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Number of violent attacks rises each year at Melbourne’s mental health hospital
Despite declaring “zero tolerance for any acts of aggression,” new data reveals Forensicare, which runs the high-security Thomas Embling Hospital,…
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Treating breast cancer when you can’t say ‘breast’
Early detection is essential for treatment but medical experts fear many women are not coming forward due to a culture…
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Photographers use portraits and still life to highlight hunger
Chris de Bode from the Netherlands, Abbie Trayler-Smith, from the UK, and Nora Lorek, from Sweden, use different visual storytelling…
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Bangladeshi asylum seeker dies by suicide at Lakemba mosque
A Bangladeshi asylum seeker, who had become homeless, died by suicide at a Lakemba mosque on Sunday. SBS Mohammad Mohsin…
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Freedom of thought is under attack – here’s how to save your mind
Technological and psychological advances could be used to promote free thought. Simon McCarthy-Jones The Conversation They could shield our inner…
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