New research suggests omega-3s from seafood to be more effective at reducing breast cancer risk than those from plant-based sources.
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Australia’s complex and awkward system of workplace income support is a barrier to working with an illness or injury.
By focusing on one nerve, researchers have found a way to vastly improve chronic patients’ health and wellbeing.
Sugar taxes fail to tackle the root of the problem – the production and marketing of foods that cause chronic disease.
Australia loses nearly A$2 billion of GDP every year due to people with cancer leaving the workforce.
Even those who regularly clean their teeth typically don’t brush for the recommended two minutes.
Four in five of us have a “biological” age older than our real age, which means we have at least one risk factor that is higher than the number set as “normal”.
Humans are much worse at guessing risk than we think we are. Now there is an app designed to help us avoid rushing toward an early grave.
Research shows that children attending schools with low-quality food environments, in poorer neighborhoods, gain more central body fat – putting them at risk of obesity and cardiometabolic disease.
Despite efforts to address the issue, the life expectancy gap between those with and without mental illness has remained consistent over two decades. However the causes of death have changed.
Australians with lower incomes are dying sooner from potentially preventable diseases than their wealthier counterparts, according to our new report.
From donuts to avocados, food impacts your heart health. Here we delve into the science of how to eat – to reduce your chances of cardiovascular disease.
Infectious diseases pose a continual threat to Canadians. Ensuring the population stays healthy requires increasing investment in our public health system.
A staggering 70 per cent of female inmates are back in prison within two years of their release. Basic health and dental care could help change this, according to new research.
As government representatives meet at the WHO global conference on noncommunicable diseases in Uruguay this week, their focus should be on reducing the health impacts of trade deals.
New data on soaring child obesity should not come as a surprise. The food industry spends billions marketing unhealthy foods in a global society where over-eating is seen as a character flaw.
Physical activity is considered an important way to lower risk for breast cancer. But what if your ability to be fit is influenced by genes you inherit? Would that raise your risk? In rats, it did.
If you sit all day at work, then cancer, diabetes, heart disease and death are the likely outcomes. A cardiologist explains how the simple act of counting can reverse this evolutionary trend.
Bold leadership is needed to adapt Canada’s expensive and mediocre health-care system for an aging population struggling with chronic disease.
As Canadian kids head back to school this week, many will be hungry. Lacking fruits, vegetables and other nutritious foods, they will suffer mood problems, disease and low academic performance.
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Health Policy, Victoria University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Health Policy Lead, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professor of Health Promotion, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Associate lecturer, Nutritional Biochemistry, University of Hertfordshire
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Deakin University
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Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Deakin University
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Professor of Medicine, The University of Melbourne
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Cardiologist at Westmead Hospital; Director of the Westmead Applied Research Centre, University of Sydney
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Executive Director, George Institute Australia; Professor of Medicine, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University