Healthy lifestyles and Long COVID
Most people with COVID-19 recover completely within a few weeks of their first symptoms. However, some people may experience longer-term effects from their infection. Long COVID is described by the World Health Organisation as an illness occurring after a COVID-19...
The Dose – Edition 2
IN CONVERSATION | Darran Fawcett, Owner, Fine Media Solutions
We recently had the pleasure of interviewing Darran Fawcett, owner of Fine Media Solutions, to discover how his inspiring journey towards success began and what keeps him on track now. Catch up with Darran as he shares his secrets to achieving a genuine work-life...
Does checking your phone reshape your brain?
Teenagers spend on average over 4 hours per day on a mobile device. A lot has already been written on the perils of too much screen time – that it’s sapping our willpower and ruining our concentration. Could mobile devices be messing with the brain’s development? In...
Why women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease
Women are twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Researchers have long been looking for the reason why, and it may be due to what's called 'cognitive reserve'—brain heft built up through things like education and time in the workforce—which...
Apathy as a predictor of dementia or its severity
Dementia has overtaken coronary heart disease as the leading cause of premature death in older Australians. Mild cognitive impairment, or MCI is a condition which affects cognitive abilities like memory and language. Those with MCI may have more difficulty...
Intermittent fasting and inflammation: The effect on healthy ageing
In recent years intermittent fasting (IF) has grown in popularity. It’s an eating plan which alternates between states of fasting and windows of eating. Intermittent fasters repeat this pattern, depending on the type of program they’re doing, every day (16:8) or twice...
Medicare reform: How to stay ahead of the game
General Practice is in a difficult place and the biggest changes in decades are about to occur. All practices need to consider if you are doing everything you can to maxmise value for your practice and patients. In a recent General Practice in a Rapidly Changing...
The Dose – Edition 1
In Conversation | Charles Xu, Diversity in Media, OMD Australia
"I am proud to see a more diverse than ever workforce not only being promoted, but celebrated. It is also exciting to see brands, publishers and agencies raising the bars when it comes authentic representation of diverse communities to challenge the conventional way...
5th COVID vaccine dose announced and Long COVID
ATAGI, the advisory group on immunisation has recently announced its recommendations about the 5th dose. ATAGI recommendsa 2023 COVID-19 vaccine booster dose for adults in the following groups, if their last COVID-19 vaccine dose or confirmed infection (whichever is...
Why is liver cancer on the rise in Australia?
Something unusual is happening to liver cancer rates globally, especially in developed nations such as Australia. While the incidence of many other cancers tend to be decreasing - as we get a better handle on risk factors like alcohol and tobacco use - liver cancer is...
