Grafton Triathlon Club Taste-a-Tri
On Sunday I joined the Taste-a-tri hosted by Grafton Triathlon Club. The club was started again recently and held the event to encourage people who had not tried a triathlon…
How to stop fixating on the daily COVID numbers
How to stop fixating on the daily COVID numbers Shutterstock Sophie H Li, UNSW and Gemma Sicouri, UNSW Daily updates of COVID case numbers have been part of our pandemic lives.…
Should I take a gift? As borders open, how to prepare for reuniting with your grandkids
www.shutterstock.com David Coall, Edith Cowan University and Shantha Karthigesu, Edith Cowan University As border restrictions lift, family reunions are being planned around Australia. This is an exciting but also uncertain…
Aiming for 10,000 steps? It turns out 7,000 could be enough to cut your risk of early death
Matthew Ahmadi, University of Sydney Many Australians are walking for their permitted fitness activity during lockdown. Some, emerging from winter hibernation, are taking part in STEPtember — a global initiative…
Equality and fairness: vaccines against this pandemic of mistrust
Tony Ward, The University of Melbourne The COVID crisis has laid bare a crisis of trust. In many Western nations there’s a small but significant minority refusing to follow distancing…
Should children get vaccinated against COVID-19? We asked 5 experts
Phoebe Roth, The Conversation Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) recently announced provisional approval for the Pfizer vaccine to be used in 12-15-year-olds. We learned on Monday that the Australian Technical…
Australia shouldn’t ‘open up’ before we vaccinate at least 80% of the population. Here’s why
Earlier this month National Cabinet released a four-phase COVID response plan. It wasn’t so much a plan – it had no dates and no thresholds – but more a back-of-the-napkin thought…
Should pregnant women have a COVID vaccine? The evidence says it’s safe and effective
Having a baby brings enough stress and uncertainty without having to deal with a pandemic. Added to that is the difficult decision to have a recently developed vaccine or not.Last week, pregnant…
Dr Norman Swan’s new book tests the evidence on diet, sex and the ‘bullshit’ wellness trend. Does he know what’s good for us?
There’s a great moment in George Eliot’s 1861 classic Silas Marner, where a young woman bemoans how people with “neither ache nor pain” want to be “better than well”. Written…
Gender-specific health programs address important issues, but risk creating new biases
Gone are the days when health programmes were designed to simply punish or reward people to encourage behaviour change. We now know lasting behaviour change is more complex and nuanced,…
