Medicine, Dentistry and Health
Health & Medicine
This is how healthcare should be
Person-Centred Value-Based Health Care shifts the focus from treating a condition to treating a person, by focusing on their values, goals and preferences
Health & Medicine
Rise in e-scooter-related brain injuries highlights the need for new treatments
Traumatic brain injuries have devastating consequences for patients and their families, driving research for new treatments
Health & Medicine
Why antibiotics give you thrush and other microbiome mishaps
Antibiotics cause an imbalance between fungi and bacteria in our microbiome. New ways of understanding this imbalance can help protect against serious disease
Sciences & Technology
Can you accurately read a graph? It may not be as simple as you think
From COVID to mortgage rates, we see data presented in graphs all the time, but our interpretation can differ – a lot
Health & Medicine
Analysis
The biomechanics of going really, really fast
From swimming to shot put, biomechanics can identify key physiological traits that contribute to athletic success in Olympic sports
Health & Medicine
Is rising inequality fuelling our moral outrage?
Moral outrage is on the rise – and it’s creating polarisation and division in democracies around the world in a vital election year
Sciences & Technology
What five thylacine skulls can tell us about extinction
The Tasmanian tiger is extinct. The only specimens are in museums, but it’s amazing what five thylacine skulls can still tell us
Health & Medicine
Olympians shouldn’t pay a punishing mental price for gold
As we head into the Paris Olympics, the mental health of elite athletes is finally becoming less stigmatised and that can only be a good thing
Health & Medicine
The precision of vision for Olympic gymnasts and divers
Elite athletes like Simone Biles and Greg Louganis spend years training their bodies, brains and vision to give peak Olympic performances