Health
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Rising prices: why the global drive to keep food cheap is unsustainable
There are predictions that the number of people in the world experiencing acute hunger – currently 276 million – could soon rise…
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Why does everyone seem to have food intolerances these days?
One friend is gluten-free, another is dairy-free, one can’t eat onion and two more are vegetarian. Evangeline Mantzioris The Conversation…
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The world’s affluent must start eating local food to tackle the climate crisis, new research shows
It reveals how transporting food across and between countries generates almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions from the food sector…
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Lawyers urged to fight for disability rights
Dr Dinesh Palipana sat down with host Jerome Doraisamy of The Lawyers Weekly Show to talk about the inspiring journey…
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Countries reach deal on changes to global health rules
A compromise has been reached by World Health Organization member countries on changes to the rules that govern how countries…
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‘The day compassion won’: Siobhan takes comfort from voluntary dying laws
Two decades after the parliament first debated voluntary assisted dying, euthanasia was legalised in NSW on Thursday, bringing the state…
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Yes, $5 for lettuce is too much.
The cost of living is on the rise. Authors The Conversation The recent Consumer Price Index (a measure of inflation of…
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Election 2022: Major parties’ approach to Indigenous issues slammed
Scott Morrison’s dismissal of the Uluru Statement from the Heart is “disheartening,” according to the CEO of the peak Aboriginal…
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Oklahoma: the latest frontier in America’s abortion wars
The mother of two had not wanted to get pregnant a third time, so when her birth control failed, she…
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Beijing COVID-19 spike prompts mass testing, panic buying
China is already trying to contain a wave of infections in its largest city Shanghai, which has been almost entirely locked…
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Blood money: Europe wrestles with moral dilemma over paying donors for plasma
European policymakers are about to confront a long-standing taboo over giving plasma, the liquid part of blood, for money. Sarah-Taïssir…
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China’s health system faces raft of challenges as Omicron hits
One of the last countries sticking to a zero-Covid strategy, China aims to stamp out every infection with strict lockdowns…
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US to end policy expelling migrants over Covid
The policy known as Title 42 will end on 23 May after more than two years, the Centers for Disease…
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Shenzhen eases lockdown as pandemic gnaws at China economy
The city of 17.5 million, under full lockdown since Sunday, resumed work, factory operations and public transport in four districts…
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Fires and clashes break out at New Zealand parliament as police move in to clear protest
Fires burned across parliament grounds, and violent clashes broke out between protesters and police at an anti-vaccine mandate demonstration on…
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Changing your diet could add ten years to your life – new research
And we’re often told that the key to doing this is making healthier lifestyle choices, such as exercising, avoiding smoking…
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