Can statins help you age more healthily?
Millions of Australians take statins to prevent heart attacks and strokes. Medicine experts examine whether the widely used drugs could have benefits beyond heart health.
Medicine and wellbeing
Covid antivirals once dramatically reduced the risk of severe illness, but do they still? Vaccine and infectious diseases researchers examine what the latest evidence reveals.
Pharmacists and researchers JACK JANETZKI and LAUREN CORTIS clear the air on why cold and flu tablets do not work for nasal congestion as well as they claim.
"Today, many people aren’t fully engaging with life; they’re enduring it. And when you’re enduring rather than engaging, the nervous system never fully stands down." Psychologist BRONWYN THOMPSON shares a personal story…
Medicine and wellbeing
Meticulous Olivia takes charge at Yarralumla clinic
Canberra’s trusted name in refined, natural aesthetics is growing. In this sponsored post Atelier Medical Aesthetics reveals its expansion with new clinic in Yarralumla.
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Medicine and wellbeing
Stressed? Let go and give yourself a good laugh
CityNews cartoonist PAUL DORIN gets his laughs from the usual suspects, but in his serious role as a senior first responder some of his favourite funny moments are back at the fire station."
Medicine and wellbeing
Be warned, covid has not gone away
Is there much covid around? Do I need the new booster shot LP.8.1? ADRIAN ESTERMAN shares the science.
Why do we wake up shortly before our alarm goes off? It’s not by chance.
Pharmacists could one day work in GP clinics. LISA NISSEN & JEAN SPINKS explain what's in it for you...
Could the shingles vaccine lower your risk of dementia? IBRAHIM JAVED looks at the latest research.
‘Oh that happened to me, too!’ Sharing your experiences in conversation is common but sometimes it’s best to just listen, says KIM FELMINGHAM.
Should we still be using RATs to test for covid? HASSAN VALLY answers four key questions...
What are the new covid booster vaccines? Can I get one? Do they work? Are they safe? PAUL GRIFFIN has the answers.
Climb the stairs, lug the shopping, chase the kids. Incidental vigorous activity has been linked to linked to lower cancer risks, say EMMANUEL STAMATAKIS and MATTHEW AHMANDI.
Some Ozempic users say it silences ‘food noise’. But there are drug-free ways to stop thinking about food so much, writes VIVIENNE LEWIS.
Paracetamol versus ibuprofen – which works best and when? That's the question poised by a group of University of Sydney academics. Here's what they've come up with...
