Category: Health
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Jen Willis on facing mortality at Mount Everest
MS advocate Jen Willis knows from experience that anything can go wrong on Mount Everest. But now — almost three years later — her appetite for experience is stronger than ever and ready for her second attempt at the summit.
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“You shouldn’t set up communities to fail”: Australia’s rural and remote health crisis
Systemic underfunding of health and wellbeing programs in the rural and remote regions of Australia is proving disastrous for the people who call those regions home.
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Fast food under fire in childhood obesity crackdown
Pressure is mounting in the Parliament of South Australian for a ban on new fast-food constructions near schools amidst rising rates of obesity in young Australians.
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Society can’t help but put the STI in stigmatisation
Bloody, cloudy discharge, swollen genitals, painful blisters and genital warts are symptoms of a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Despite many STIs being treatable, society makes you feel like it is the end of the world.
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Periods don’t pause for music: the struggles of menstruating at a music festival
Most music festivals in Australia are an all-day event. Tampons shouldn’t be left in over eight hours. There are no sanitary bins in the toilets. What are menstruating attendees left to do?
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Down the k-hole: the rise of recreational ketamine use in Australia
Recreational use of the illicit drug ketamine has increased nationally over the past decade and does not seem to be going anywhere. Experts say the drug is not yet fully understood, discussing both its dangerous effects and medical applications.