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Back to SearchNew research reveals Australian regions at higher risk of cardiac arrest
New research from Monash University has identified the Australian Local Government Areas with the highest rates of cardiac arrest and lowest rates of…
2 years ago
Wally "The King" Lewis shares his story to plead for brain injury research funding
Rugby league icon Wally Lewis has made an impassioned plea for further funding into concussion and traumatic brain injury research. The Queensland gr…
2 years, 1 month ago
Can't arrest our way out of drug crisis, say health experts
Health experts are warning of new super-strength synthetic opioids making their way into Australia with deadly consequences. They're up to fifty time…
2 years, 1 month ago
First Nations people especially vulnerable to drug-related deaths
The so-called 'war on drugs' has been waged in the US since at least the 1970s, when then President Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substances Ac…
2 years, 1 month ago
Is Australia winning 'the war on drugs'?
Most of us might be familiar with the term 'the war on drugs'. In the US, it's been waged since the 1970s, when then President Richard Nixon signed t…
2 years, 1 month ago
Opioid use in Australia: have government restrictions avoided the crisis faced in the USA?
Most of us might be familiar with the term 'the war on drugs'. In the US, it's been waged since the 1970s, when then President Richard Nixon signed t…
2 years, 1 month ago
Medicinal cannabis boom complicates drug testing
Medicinal cannabis has been legal in Australia for eight years. Although it's legal, the drug still can affect people's ability to work and drive bec…
2 years, 1 month ago
Shiny tiles and same-coloured walls: seeing the world through the eyes of people with dementia
Maree McCabe is the CEO of Dementia Australia, an organisation that offers advocacy and support to people living with dementia, as well as their fami…
2 years, 1 month ago
New portal helping people with dementia
Dementia currently affects more than 400,000 people across Australia and is the country's second leading cause of death for women. The numbers of tho…
2 years, 1 month ago
New rules lowered prescription opioid use - but where does that leave those in pain?
In Australia, the misuse of prescription opioids has been a longstanding problem. At one point the nation recorded the world's ninth highest per capi…
2 years, 1 month ago