The key to creativity? You might be overthinking it
A study of people with neurodegenerative disease has discovered that bursts of creativity can happen when the brain is shutting down. Also, there's a lot of misinformation out there about back pain and how to treat it. Here's where the evidence isn't. And the questions women should ask before undergoing vaginal surgery if their sexual function is important to them.
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Why there's no quick fix for osteoarthritis
A new resource has launched to provide information to the millions of Australians living with osteoarthritis. It pushes back against the idea that an injection or surgery will fix all your woes when it comes to this degenerative disease. Also, what climate change is doing to our hearts, and how a simple check in at school is helping students manage their mental health.
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Dr Google could be making your health anxiety worse
What used to be called hypochondria is now health anxiety — an excessive worry about developing a serious illness. While experiences of health anxiety vary, for some people it can take over their lives and even lead to physical symptoms. Also, a link between conditions like endometriosis and heart disease. And local scientists help make a big discovery about how cells recycle waste.
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Early dementia signs from the body not the brain
When you have dementia, being diagnosed early can help you and your loved ones manage the condition. It could also aid in treatment.A new study has found that in some cases, weight loss and lipid changes happened up to a decade before dementia was diagnosed.Also, concerns that people of a higher weight with restrictive eating disorders could access GLP-1s if doctors aren’t screening patients appropriately.And why type 1 diabetes is more commonly being diagnosed in adults, not just children and adolescents.
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Listening to influencers could give you an incidentaloma
On social media, an influencer's job is to influence you — to get you to strive for a particular lifestyle or buy a specific product. In some cases they're pushing medical tests, telling people to take charge of their health with full body MRI scans and cancer detection tools that have very little, or no evidence to support them.Also, we take a comprehensive look at GLP-1s like Ozempic and Wegovy for weight loss. And who should be substituting table salt for potassium salt?
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