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Noncommunicable disease is the new epidemic

The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported in March 2013 NCDs represent 63 per cent of all annual deaths.

by Patricia Jenkings - 22/05/2013 - 6 comments

Planning for the end

We all imagine a life plan, but what about the end of life? It seems remarkable that for such a vital question, we leave it to strangers to decide.

by Andrew Laming - 21/05/2013 - 4 comments

Angelina Jolie: breasts, celebrity and choice

The sense that she might actually be flesh and blood is simply beside the point – her career choice, as it were, was to mimic life rather than live it.

by Binoy Kampmark - 16/05/2013 - 8 comments

Coronavirus – the next pandemic?

Currently we are witnessing the emergence of a new SARS-like coronavirus which seems to have been spreading throughout some Middle East Countries over the last year.

by Peter Curson - 15/05/2013 - 1 comment

Radiation and nuclear technology: safety without science is dangerous

Scientists are currently mired in a bogus safety culture that stifles innovation, acts as a brake on economic growth and actually makes the world a more hazardous place.

by Wade Allison - 13/05/2013 - 16 comments

Beyond Blue turns to code red

But the Medicare assessment refers to anxiety disorder in a blanket fashion, thereby diagnostically enveloping us all in a medical shroud.

by Lyn Bender - 10/05/2013 - 2 comments

Understanding Obama and other people who kill

It takes someone with a particular psychological profile to kill people.

by Robert Burrowes - 9/05/2013 - 6 comments

So we agree we have a problem, so what?

Alcohol problems always belong to someone else, even though they affect us all.

by Raffaele Piccolo - 6/05/2013 - 9 comments

Happy families = a healthy economy

Social and economic conservatives don't necessarily see eye to eye on the rights of the unborn child.

by Babette Francis - 2/05/2013 - 10 comments

RU 486 comes with potent and unpalatable 'side effects'

I am writing this as a long-term health advocate supportive of women's right to abortion, but I want women to be able to access a safe service, not a second-rate, unpredictable and dangerous drug cocktail.

by Renate Klein - 1/05/2013 - 8 comments

ANZAC Day usurped for Bressington’s anti-science balderdash

Ms Bressington chose to couple her conspiracy theories about vaccination with our national day of commemoration for those who fought on the battlefields and in the trenches.

by Chrys Stevenson - 29/04/2013 - 6 comments

The killer within, or how our quest for convenience is turning lethal

Antibiotic resistance should be ranked with terrorism as one of the major threats to society.

by Julian Cribb - 26/04/2013 - 9 comments

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