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HealthWriting2022-12-30T09:46:56+11:00
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A guide to waterworks for men

Adam Landau & Mark Frydenberg
Seeing a urologist often involves discussing things that men may have been bothered by for some time, but have managed to ignore. Conditions such as weakening of erections and slowing ...
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A healthy diet – A matter of balance

Andrew Sinclair
The constantly evolving nature and extreme complexities of nutrition science have created an environment and perception of the science that is frequently muddled, misrepresented and often downright incorrect within general ...
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A healthy future? Let’s put medical science under the microscope

Peter C. Doherty, Fiona Stanley & Michael Good
The past is prologue, or so we should hope for biomedical research. Australia has a proud history with four Nobel Prizes for Physiology or Medicine given for work done here ...
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A tale of swarms, cannibals, ageing and human obesity

Stephen J. Simpson
At first sight these seem like very strange bedfellows. In this chapter, I will explain how seeking to understand swarming in locusts has led to new discoveries on the dietary ...
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Aboriginal Health

Jonathan Carapetis
I begin with a few caveats. As a non-Aboriginal Australian, I am careful to avoid joining the legions of whitefellas who tell Aboriginal people how to live their lives. Nor ...
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Adequate Support for People with a Disability

Bruce Bonyhady
Kenny and thousands of other people with disabilities in Australia fall through a huge gap in our social services network, because their injury or disability is non-compensable. Because of this, ...
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Stephanie Alexander

Choosing to eat good fresh food

My idea for the past twelve years has been to develop an enjoyable program suitable for all Australian primary schools, with the aim of positively influencing children’s attitudes and behaviours ...
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Laura Beaton

The lottery of genetics

It’s Saturday morning, which means pancakes. After a long drive out to the quiet suburbs of regional Victoria, I arrive too late for the pancakes — but I am where ...
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Peter Berger

Skin ageing

What is this covering that we call the skin — this amazing envelope that contains some of the most extraordinary mechanisms in the entire body? It is not just the ...
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Grant Blashki

Mental health, hope and recovery

Mental health conditions are extremely common in the community and have a major impact on people’s day-to-day lives, as anyone who has been through the experience will tell you. For ...
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Grant Blashki & Jon Emery

Genomics in general practice

In recent decades, there has been an extraordinary technological revolution underway in which the very building blocks of life, our genetic codes, are increasingly well understood and even manipulated by ...
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Grant Blashki and Michael Kidd

What’s up Doc? The benefits of a good GP

Throughout history people have relied on some form of doctor or other healer to help them and their families during times of illness, and to provide comfort and cures for ...
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