Sounding sirens for US paramedics
United States paramedics have been found to have a much higher risk of death from COVID-19 than other front-line emergency medics. They are dying at a rate three times...
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WAIT WATCHERS: How intermittent fasting could help diabetics
Time-restricted eating could be key to curbing the diabetes epidemic, research from the Australian Catholic University indicates. Eating all...
City foot traffic fall
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many pedestrians to cross cities off their lists. New research shows a 36 per...
Social media saves the ray
Imagine trying to save the giant panda from extinction if you didn’t know it lived in China. That was...
A new blood count for COVID-19
Australian researchers have gone for COVID-19’s jugular, by creating a new, highly sensitive blood test to tell how many...
Learning and burning in Australia’s schools
New research from Western Sydney University and Macquarie University has found that Australian schools are far from sun smart...
Prison-to-pooch trial delivers pawsitive results
Prisoners at risk of reoffending are getting a paw-up from man’s best friend. Dogs are being used to increase...
We all return to where we dugong
“Hue-manatee” hasn’t been kind to dugongs, which are now listed as vulnerable to extinction at a global scale by...
Fat chance of pregnancy on the Mediterranean diet
New research suggests that infertility caused by a common hormonal disorder could be treated with a simple change in...
Coughing up the true cost of bushfires
A new study has calculated the full health costs of last summer’s bushfire crisis, with smoke-related health costs climbing...