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Ketamine effective for treatment-resistant depression: clinical trial

14 Jul 2023

Promising results in a trial of ketamine for severe depression could lead to treatment becoming more affordable.

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Women from refugee backgrounds at higher risk of mental distress due to COVID-19: study

07 Jul 2023

New research from UNSW Sydney reveals the mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic for women of refugee backgrounds living in Australia.

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Psychedelic medicine is not ‘doing shrooms with your shrink’. Here’s what you need to know

30 Jun 2023

From July 1, authorised psychiatrists will be able to prescribe MDMA and psilocybin in some circumstances. Here’s what we’re excited and concerned about.

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Your strength training program might be sexist

30 Jun 2023

It turns out the official guidelines are – like many other fields in health – largely based on the male body.

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Medical Emergency Team: from an idea to saving 10,000 Australian lives each year

29 Jun 2023

They prevent more deaths than almost any other single hospital intervention, but implementing Medical Emergency Teams in hospitals was no easy task.  

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'Psychological debriefing' right after an accident or trauma can do more harm than good – here’s why

22 Jun 2023

Psychological debriefing usually involves counsellors providing survivors with a single counselling session soon after an event. But ‘talking through’ trauma can over-consolidate painful memories.

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Imagine the outcry if factories killed as many people as wood heaters

16 Jun 2023

One day we’ll look back in amazement that wood heaters were once tolerated in cities right next to houses, schools and hospitals.

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‘Village’ approach to transform stem cell research

15 Jun 2023

A new technique developed at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and UNSW Sydney could make stem cell studies up to 100 times more efficient.

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We're in another COVID wave. But it's not like the others

13 Jun 2023

Australia is in the middle of its fifth Omicron wave, which has been brewing since February. But it’s been slow and the health impacts are very different. 

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Long COVID could be caused by the virus lingering in the body. Here’s what the science says

09 Jun 2023

We know from other viruses that viral fragments can remain in different tissues for months or even years. This could be the case for long COVID.

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