Episodes

  • Meet the Kenyan women helping solve a critical shortage in this essential item

    Meet the Kenyan women helping solve a critical shortage in this essential item
    Sep 30 2024
    Not having enough money to buy period products is a major problem for women and girls around the world. The Kenyan government is considered a global leader in access to sanitary products repealing added taxes on pads and tampons in 2004, and passing a law in 2017 to make period products free for school girls. And one charity is helping disabled women in the coastal city of Mombasa earn a living by making reusable period pads.
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    3 mins
  • Health professionals say Australia needs a centre for disease control

    Health professionals say Australia needs a centre for disease control
    Sep 30 2024
    Public health experts are calling on the government to make good on its election promise to institute a permanent centre for disease control to ensure we're prepared for the next pandemic. While the final report from an independent inquiry into Australia's pandemic response has been delayed, health professionals say the government needs to act with urgency to ensure a coordinated prevention effort can keep Australians safe
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    7 mins
  • One in five Australian children are living with chronic pain - and often, help is not at hand

    One in five Australian children are living with chronic pain - and often, help is not at hand
    Sep 28 2024
    One in five Australian children suffer from chronic pain. But new research shows the problem is often ignored, leading to delays in diagnosis and treatment. That can affect their physical and mental development.
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    4 mins
  • The laundry service that's changing lives for good

    The laundry service that's changing lives for good
    Sep 26 2024
    A free community laundry service has seen encouraging results in reducing the prevalence of skin infections and scabies in remote Northern Territory communities. Untreated scabies infestations can lead to dangerous secondary infections, which can then be a factor in causing rheumatic heart disease.
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    7 mins
  • INTERVIEW: What factors can lead to cognitive decline and dementia?

    INTERVIEW: What factors can lead to cognitive decline and dementia?
    Sep 16 2024
    It's Dementia Action week, and Alyssa Gamaldo-Roddy is a professor in the Department of Psychology and Institute for Engaged Aging at Clemson University in South Carolina in the United States. Her research focuses on identifying adverse and protective factors associated with cognitive functioning, particularly in populations at risk for Alzheimer’s and related dementia. She also discusses how aging has changed from generation to generation as information has become more readily available with the development of technology.
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    5 mins
  • Mobile phones get cancer all-clear

    Mobile phones get cancer all-clear
    Sep 4 2024
    There is no link between mobile phone use and brain and head cancers - that's according to a new Australian-led systematic review - commisioned by the World Health Organization. The researchers say the study provides the strongest evidence to date that radio waves from wireless technologies are not harmful to humans.
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    3 mins
  • Engineered stem cells breakthrough could save lives

    Engineered stem cells breakthrough could save lives
    Sep 3 2024
    Australian scientists have made a world-first breakthrough creating lab engineered blood stem cells that closely resemble those found in the human body. They say the discovery could one day put an end to the search for 'perfectly matched' bone marrow donors that are often needed to treat those with leukaemia serious and blood disorders.
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    3 mins
  • Research shows most people support drug injecting rooms

    Research shows most people support drug injecting rooms
    Sep 3 2024
    A researcher says most Australians support the use of supervised drug injecting rooms with more than 50 per cent of people in every jurisdiction backing the public health measure. A drug injecting room has operated at Kings Cross in Sydney for the past 23 years and a similar facility at North Richmond in Melbourne has been operating since 2018. But efforts to set up additional centres have been problematic.
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    4 mins