Medicine, Dentistry and Health
Arts & Culture
Opinion
Athletes use Stoicism to deal with pressure, but Broicism and $toicism are lurking
Sportspeople often misuse the ancient philosophy of Stoicism as a tool for winning, but when they embrace its true meaning, it’s their humanity that shines through
Health & Medicine
Research
The promise and peril of AI chatbots in healthcare
Artificial Intelligence chatbots like ERNIE Bot, ChatGPT and DeepSeek can often outperform doctors in diagnosis, but we need safeguards to avoid overprescribing and reinforcing inequality
Health & Medicine
Research
Revisiting a 100-year-old medical treatment to tackle the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance
Bacteria-killing viruses were used more than 100 years ago to treat infections, and now, as antibiotic-resistant infections increase, researchers are studying how we could bring them back
Health & Medicine
Opinion
I’m a GP who’s built 10 apps without writing a line of code
As a GP and public health researcher, developing apps isn’t in my skill set. But I’ve now built 10 functioning apps from scratch. Welcome to the world of vibe coding.
Health & Medicine
Analysis
There are pros and cons for weight loss medications like Ozempic
Drugs like Mounjaro and Wegovy have led to a sudden shift in treatment, but also to a lot of questions about how we think about and treat obesity
Health & Medicine
Q&A
‘It’s still the same for me as it was years ago’
Laureate Professor Graeme Clark AC, who led the team that invented Australia’s multi-channel cochlear implant, says he still cries “tears of joy” when someone’s hearing is restored
Health & Medicine
Research
Why is research into women’s mental health decades behind?
Historically, medical research has excluded women as too complex. But a new study is investigating how the brain may drive alcohol misuse differently between the sexes.
Politics & Society
Book extract
‘Finding an Indigenous voice’
The second volume of the truth-telling initiative, Dhoombak Goobgoowana, shares the steps, and missteps, on the road to finding an Indigenous Voice at the University of Melbourne
Arts & Culture
Book extract
‘How we bring Indigenous knowledges into the academy is as important as the knowledge itself’
A new truth-telling book shines a light on the past, present and future of the University of Melbourne’s Indigenous cultural collections