Happy Global Handwashing Day!
14 October, 2015 by Sharon SmithThat’s right: the Food Safety Information Council is using this Thursday 15 October Global Handwashing Day to celebrate your favourite topic: hand washing. So get out those gloves and blow them up into balloons in the name of good hand hygiene.
The Conversation - The link between smoking and mental health
07 September, 2015 by Sharon SmithA recent study suggested a causal association between smoking tobacco and developing psychosis or schizophrenia, building on research about the relationship between the use of substances and the risk of psychosis. While cannabis is one of the usual suspects, a potential link with tobacco will have come as a surprise to many.
Cancer Drugs Will Become Terminal for Health Systems
28 August, 2015 by Sharon SmithNarcyz Ghinea, University of Sydney; Ian Kerridge, University of Sydney, and Wendy Lipworth, University of Sydney
Is Depression a Mental or Physical Illness?
07 August, 2015 by Sharon SmithUte Vollmer-Conna, UNSW Australia and Gordon Parker, UNSW Australia
Chronic Depression Causes Brain Damage
20 July, 2015 by Sharon SmithA study published in Molecular Psychiatry has shown that persistent depression causes brain damage by shrinking the hippocampus, leading to a loss of emotional and behavioural function.
Critical Care Decision Making - Intensive Care
15 June, 2015 by Ryan MccannThe forgotten Australian women doctors of the Great War
24 April, 2015 by Sharon SmithImage: Australian troops in France in the first world war – and one of Australia’s women medics, possibly Dr Laura Foster. Heather Sheard The War Office regrets it cannot utilise the services of women doctors – Sydney Morning Herald, May 10, 1915. From the outbreak of the first world war until late 1916, military officialdom throughout the British Empire denied women doctors the right to enlist with the Allied medical corps. Nevertheless, more than 20 Australian women doctors acted as surgeons and medical officers in military base and field hospitals in Belgium, France, Serbia, England, Egypt, Malta and across Europe between 1914 and 1919.
Get it in Black and White Campaign aims to Help People Plan Ahead
11 March, 2014 by Petrina SmithGet it in Black and White, an Australian-first campaign, is encouraging Australians to find out what medical or health treatment their parent would or would not want.
