Our brain is an extremely complex and delicate organ. Our body fiercely protects it by holding onto things that help it and keeping harmful things out, such as bugs that can cause infection and toxins.
Clinical guidelines recommend only six to 12 months antidepressant therapy for a single episode of moderate to severe depression, but more than half the people taking them exceed that, writes Prof Katherine Wallis for the Conversation.
A First Nations child born in Australia today can expect to live eight to nine years less than a non-Indigenous child born on the same day, writes Danielle Harrop for the Conversation.
For many Australians the emergency department (ED) is the physical and emblematic front door to accessing urgent health-care services but the ED is expanding into new telehealth models to improve access to emergency medical care, Dr Jaimon Kelly writes for the Conversation.
Last week’s federal budget committed A$12.5 million over four years to deliver tampons, pads and other period care products to people who menstruate in rural and remote Indigenous communities.