Health and Wellbeing

Does coffee raise your blood pressure? Here’s how much it’s OK to drink

by Clare Collins, Laureate Professor, University of Newcastle

Coffee first entered human lives and veins over 600 years ago.

Is honey good for you? Can it speed recovery if you’re sick or injured?

by Clare Collins, Laureate Professor, University of Newcastle

Honey is often praised for a range of health benefits, from soothing a sore throat and helping you get to sleep to healing woulds and lowering risk factors for diabetes and heart disease.

Education

‘Mum and Dad both finished school in Year 10’ - How to help first-in-family students graduate from uni

by Sally Patfield, Lecturer, University of Newcastle

Each year, about 30% of new undergraduates in Australia are the first in their families to go to university.

Health and Wellbeing

Giving men a common antidepressant could help tackle domestic violence: world-first study

by Tony Butler - Professor and Program Head, Justice Health Research Program, UNSW

In April 2024, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared domestic and family violence a “national crisis” calling for proactive responses that “focus on the perpetrators and focus on prevention”.The issue hasn’t really improved since then.

Health and Wellbeing

What is gingivitis? How do I know if I have it?

by Dileep Sharma, Professor and Head of Discipline - Oral Health

Do your gums look red and often bleed when you brush them, but they’re not painful? If so, you could have the gum disease gingivitis.

Health and Wellbeing

Not all processed foods are bad for you. Here’s what you can tell from reading the label

by Clare Collins, Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle

If you follow wellness content on social media or in the news, you’ve probably heard that processed food is not just unhealthy, but can cause serious harm.

Health and Wellbeing

Kids need to floss too, even their baby teeth. But how do you actually get them to do it?

by Dileep Sharma Professor and Head of Discipline - Oral Health, University of Newcastle

A survey from the Australian Dental Association out this week shows about three in four children never floss their teeth, or have adults do it for them.

Arts, Culture and Society

‘Perfect bodies and perfect lives’: how selfie-editing tools are distorting how young people see themselves

by Julia Coffey, Associate Professor in Sociology

Like many of her peers, Abigail (21) takes a lot of selfies, tweaks them with purpose-made apps, and posts them on social media. But, she says, the selfie-editing apps do more than they were designed for.

Education

Pathway to purpose

by Carmen Swadling

From limited beginnings to limitless dreams - equity in education is giving Arthur Demetriou the chance to change the face of medicine.

Health and Wellbeing

“I thought I was a bad mother”: How telehealth changed a young boy’s life and gave a family hope

by Rosemarie Milsom

“I thought I was a bad mother,” says Marlie Matthews, tearfully. “I tried everything, but Marcus was getting more and more behind. He wasn’t speaking much and when he did, I couldn’t understand him. It was very hard on all of us.”

Health and Wellbeing

Air is an overlooked source of nutrients - evidence shows we can inhale some vitamins

by Flávia Fayet-Moore. Adjunct Lecturer, School of Environmental and Life Sciences (University of Newcastle) and Stephen R. Robinson, Professor in Psychology, Research (RMIT University)

You know that feeling you get when you take a breath of fresh air in nature? There may be more to it than a simple lack of pollution.

Health and Wellbeing

We knew offshore detention was bad for the mental health of people seeking asylum. Our new research shows exactly how bad

by Belinda Liddell, Daphne Keats Chair in Cross-Cultural Psychology (University of Newcastle), & Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology (UNSW), Phillipa Specker, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program (UNSW), and Angela Nickerson, Professor & Director, Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program (UNSW)

For more than a decade, mandatory offshore detention has been a cornerstone of Australia’s strategy to deter people who arrive by boat to seek asylum.

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