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Solovyova/Getty Images A coronial inquest is this week examining the death of Melbourne wellness influencer Stacey Warnecke after a freebirth at her home in September. About 25 minutes after her son Axel was born, Warnecke had a postpartum haemorrhage (severe blood loss after birth) and without time...

Inverse Couple Images/Getty Images Health usually accounts for one of the largest expenditures in annual budgets, as it did in Budget 2026. But the focus on year-on-year increases does not tell us how New Zealand’s health spending compares historically or with other countries – and most importantly,...

Dear Leaders of the G7, the G20, BRICS and of all nations, We write to you together, from Geneva and from Brasília, with one shared conviction: that the world must finish what it started, and that you can help it do so. We begin not with an institution or an annex, but with a memory the whole world...

Taha Samet Arslan/Pexels Have you ever wondered why savoury foods like chips, nachos and salted nuts go so well with a beer or glass of wine? And why sometimes you feel an insatiable appetite for junk food while drinking? Our new study examined the diets and alcohol intake of Australians to find out...

Have you heard someone say online or in casual conversation, when responding to someone’s struggles, “well, the body keeps the score”? For many people, this phrase is a useful way to name the physical toll stress and trauma can take when the body is in “fight or flight” mode. The everyday use of t...

Doing a load of laundry involves lots of decisions – from which cycle to choose to what detergent to use. These choices may seem like simple personal preferences. But in communities where skin and other infections are common, doing laundry is often part of medical advice. Washing clothes and beddin...

When it comes to Ebola outbreaks, it’s not often we have two pieces of good news in one week. First, we heard there’s new funding of up to US$62 million to fast-track the development of vaccine candidates against the type of virus circulating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighbo...

Getty Images Parents know how easily coughs, colds and other infections can move through a household after a child picks up a bug at childcare or school. This puts babies with older siblings at greater risk of serious infectious illness, especially while their immune systems are still developing du...

SDI Productions/Getty Images If you’ve ever taken your child to a maternal, child and family health nurse for a growth check, you might have felt a mix of curiosity and anxiety. As health professionals, we’re often asked: is my baby gaining enough weight? Am I feeding enough? Why did they drop a per...