Episodes

  • 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
  • Vaccination, sexual bubbles and condoms: A doctor's tips on protecting yourself from mpox

    Vaccination, sexual bubbles and condoms: A doctor's tips on protecting yourself from mpox
    Aug 31 2024
    Health authorities across Australia are encouraging at risk people to get fully vaccinated for mpox as the number of cases grows. There have been more than 340 cases this year which is more than double the number during the last outbreak in 2022. The outbreak in Australia is less severe than the one causing serious illness and deaths in parts of Africa. Dr Tom Morley is a sexual health doctor at Thorne Harbour Health in Melbourne. He told Greg Dyett being fully vaccinated for mpox is important for those most at risk.
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    6 mins
  • Virtual reality may soon assist frontline healthcare workers

    Virtual reality may soon assist frontline healthcare workers
    Aug 31 2024
    Researchers at a university in Perth have developed an immersive virtual reality program to assist frontline healthcare workers in managing aggressive patients. The idea is to expose clinicians and students to realistic simulations, without placing them at risk of actual harm.
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    2 mins
  • Disappointment as midwifery continuity of care not prioritised by NSW

    Disappointment as midwifery continuity of care not prioritised by NSW
    Aug 30 2024
    The New South Wales government has pledged support for all the recommendations of a world-first birth trauma inquiry. But mothers and advocates in the space say they are disappointed by a lack of urgent commitment to continuity of midwifery care models.
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    13 mins
  • For some cancer patients, they're battling the disease - and discrimination

    For some cancer patients, they're battling the disease - and discrimination
    Aug 29 2024
    For many in Australia the fear of one day being diagnosed with cancer is something they dread. But there is something perhaps even more dreadful for those diagnosed; discrimination during cancer treatment, because of who you are or where you come from. A new campaign by the Leukaemia Foundation aims to face that issue head on:
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    7 mins