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The east coast of Australia is currently experiencing one of its worst outbreaks of mosquito-borne disease in years.
Exercise alone can be hard, but exercising in the heat is a whole lot harder. Put simply, this is due to the balance between how much heat the body generates and how much it is capable of losing.
Summer sunshine makes most of us feel better, but there may be more to the benefits than just feeling good.
While most of us agree ice cream and cold beverages are refreshing summer treats, do they actually help cool us down?
Warmer temperatures and eating outside go hand-in-hand, but picnics can sometimes lead to nasty surprises. Food poisoning is unsurprisingly more common in summer months. Every Australian experiences food…
With the long, hot Australian summer comes the imperative to manage the country’s enormous skin cancer risk. Along with the growing raw numbers (11,545 skin cancer cases diagnosed in 2009) and rates of…
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Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medical Science & Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute; Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Dermatology Research Centre, The University of Queensland
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NHMRC Research Fellow, School of Population Health and Co-founder UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW
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Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology, Curtin University and College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Nutrition, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol
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Director of the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University
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Professor of Heat & Health; Director of Heat & Health Research Incubator; Director of Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Physiology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Health Sciences, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor of Medicine, Bond University
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Lecturer in Physiology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Biochemistry, Murdoch University