John Elder
Why you need to protect your veggie garden from animal poop
Ordinarily, we think of gardening as a life-enhancing pastime. Why not? There’s the elemental pleasure of running one’s fingers through the dark...
Staying positive about exercise makes you less fearful of ageing
So, day after day, we get older. That’s everybody. For the first 20 years of your life, you might be impatient for...
The most important thing you must do to cut your risk of dementia
We run as many news stories about dementia as we can, and for good reason. As we wrote in February, the impact...
The top health stories of 2022: The breakthroughs and the oddities
One of the most fascinating aspects of health reporting is seeing the extent to which psychology plays a role in our wellbeing...
COVID-19 antivirals: Millions are now eligible, but the drugs are no substitute for boosters
About two weeks ago, news media began reporting that millions of Australians had become eligible for access to new antiviral drugs –...
COVID-19 has never been more infectious: Why mask mandates are being resisted
On Tuesday, Professor Nigel McMillan predicted that COVID-19 will be the leading cause of death in Australia by the end of the...
Inability to stand on one leg linked to doubling in risk of death within 10 years
From about the age of 30, muscle strength and flexibility begin to drop away unless you work to preserve them. And if...
When ink stinks: Tattoo regrets deliver boon for removalists
Yes, long COVID is a real thing. But scientists are still working it out
There’s an idea that people who complain of suffering from long COVID – the syndrome where debilitating symptoms of the disease persist...
Eating different kinds of protein protects against hypertension: New study
Despite all this talk that more Australians are toying with vegetarianism, and despite the endless drum-beating about red meat giving you cancer...