Planning for a baby? Why both men and women should consider quitting alcohol before and during pregnancy
When a couple is planning on having a baby, it’s often the woman who is seen as responsible for the...
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Community health workers in Ethiopia set out to promote health – in the process they’ve empowered girls in other ways too
Ethiopia has made significant progress in supporting gender equality and girls’ empowerment. Rates of child marriage and teenage pregnancy have...
Another COVID winter is coming. Is this the calm before another peak?
Australia is currently experiencing the longest break between infection peaks since Omicron arrived in late 2021 and community-wide transmission took...
South African doctors are bound by many rules. Criminal charges for mistakes may have unintended consequences
Claims for financial compensation for medical mistakes in South Africa have been on the rise since 2007. Recently, however, criminal...
Australia’s system of taxing alcohol is ‘incoherent’, but our research suggests a single tax rate isn’t the answer
The best word to describe the way Australia taxes alcoholic drinks is “incoherent”. It was the word used by the...
Cervical cancer can be beaten – the key is vaccinating young girls
In 2020 the World Health Organization introduced a plan to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health threat by 2030....
120 hours of supervised learner driving: our research suggests it may be too many
During the Easter school holidays, scores of learner drivers will hit the roads, with parents carefully logging all their driving...
Fake medicines are a dangerous threat in Africa: 3 ways to spot them
At the end of a long day, you realise you’re starting to get a headache. So you buy painkillers from...
‘Drinking isn’t an option, it’s more of a requirement’: the reasons for high alcohol consumption among some student athletes
Binge drinking is commonplace in university sport. Students who play sport drink more heavily and frequently than other students. Research...
Companies that frack for oil and gas can keep a lot of information secret – but what they disclose shows widespread use of hazardous chemicals
From rural Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, more than 17 million Americans live within a mile of at least one oil...
