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Integrated research is key to sustainable development, which helps Africa resolve its energy woes.
Novel drugs that reduce the spread of cancer in mice could pave the way for changing the way we fight tumours.
Despite the criticism, the sustainable development goal for health presents an opportunity to approach health holistically.
Hollywood may already have done it but when we eventually send real astronauts to Mars, what medicines should we arm them with? And will they work the same way as they do on Earth?
One of the experts behind the ONS’ well-being project explains why it’s so important for the government to know how you’re feeling.
Diabetes medications can have real benefits but there are still some nagging unknowns about their effects.
A global health and disease study shows we’re living longer, but spending more years in poor health. But there are some things within our power to change.
A new study has produced puzzling results about how the environment affects men’s and women’s mental health.
The communities ravaged by Ebola need mental health support to help people rebuild their lives.
HIV therapy that enables patients with the virus to live a healthy life is a great success for modern medicine. But what are the challenges to coming up with a complete cure?
Instant reaction from academics as George Osborne delivers his post-election budget.
When welfare budgets get cut, layers of help and guidance are slowly stripped away from the most vulnerable.
The nine science and research priorities will help focus and coordinate our efforts, and aid government departments in supporting the future of Australian science.
Seriously though - can fashion really damage your health?
If Malawian children do not learn basic skills like reading, will this harm them in the long term? Recent evidence suggests the answer is yes – at least in terms of their health.
African health leaders do not often get the chance to tell the stories of their public health achievements and challenges.
Weight and girth have become shorthand for health but these are blunt instruments that provide an unreliable and reductive snapshot of its complexities.
The first budget handed down by Victorian Labor government emphasises expenditure in traditional areas of education, health and transport.
What do stuffed crust pizza and terrifying newspaper headlines have in common? Our hard-wired evolutionary responses hold the answer.
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