Gas groups challenge report’s asthma alert
The country’s leading gas organisations have questioned fresh research by Asthma Australia claiming gas cooktops pose as much risk to household occupants as second-hand smoking.
Medical
Try a breath of fresh air
Bushfires, thunderstorm asthma and of course Covid-19 have made it imperative to get the best air filtration.
How to protect your memory
Adjusting your diet to take in more flavonoid-rich foods can give the mind a lift. Here are the items to add to your shopping list.
Head Noise
A rugby league superstar discovers the truth about what football has done to his brain – and faces up to deeply confronting questions about risk, reward, masculinity and responsibility.
‘Grossest miscarriage of justice since Lindy Chamberlain’
With scientists weighing in on the vexed case of convicted child killer Kathleen Folbigg, will she finally be released?
Legal overhaul call as sciences develop
Australia’s most distinguished science body is calling for an overhaul of the way in which scientific evidence, and expert scientific witnesses, are used in the legal system.
Star’s devastating struggle: ‘My head was like a scrambled egg’
In his rugby career Michael Lipman took head knocks in his stride. Now, aged 42 and suffering dementia, he’s paying a terrible price.
Men get the zing back in their lives
Aggressive prostate cancer has been said to leave men with an impossible choice: treat it and cease to be men, or don’t – and cease to be.
The circle of life beats on
Harnessing the capacity of a newborn’s heart to repair itself holds the key to new treatments for congenital cardiac disease.
Spotlight on Indigenous diabetes crisis
A new study has found Indigenous children in Northern Australia suffer youth-onset type two diabetes at rates at least 10 times higher than previously thought.
Super flu vaccine gets the go-ahead
A new type of cell-based influenza vaccine is available this winter that promises to be much more effective than protein-based flu jabs grown in eggs.
Even the best skaters get badly hurt
Cold, slippery and unyielding, ice is a lethal surface to play sports on. Even the best skaters get badly hurt when they fall.
What would you do?
A performer collapses on stage. A person is racially abused on a bus. A crashed car with two people trapped inside is about to go up in flames… Do you stand back or step up?
He survived COVID-19 … and he has a warning
Joe Tannous spent 10 days on a ventilator in an induced coma. But nothing could have prepared him for what comes after COVID-19.
Skincare’s newest ‘miracle’
Oh deer! The beauty industry discovers new goop.
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