Tweaking diet and exercise doesn’t result in weight loss
Randomised controlled trial shows a 100 calorie per day reduction combined with 2000 extra steps is not as effective as pilot studies suggested.
Pandemic party time? How Australia’s illicit drugs scene changed with COVID-19
Addiction experts analyse the set-backs and the advances that coincided with lockdown.
What’s causing the ‘black hole’ in this patient’s vision?
Sara is a 33-year-old office manager who is fitted in urgently for review of sudden right-sided visual disturbance.
Medical Must-See: Fire-eater accidentally inhales during performance
He spent 40 days in hospital with the eponymous condition.
The baffling case of metabolically healthy people with obesity
There is a growing global body positivity movement to combat the stigma and prejudice that overweight and obese individuals face. Some of this stigma arises…
Could more sleep be the answer to obesity?
Adults who upped their sleep by two hours to the recommended eight and a half hours consumed fewer calories, US study reports.
GP clinic in trouble over ‘rude’ weight loss texts
The UK practice has apologised to patients for unintentionally offending them with the SMS offer of a weight management program.
Second-hand vaping not without harms, study suggests
Chemicals in e-cigarette liquids may be the problem, US researchers warn.
Vaping liquids exposing Aussie users to toxins, researchers warn
More studies are needed to improve public health policy around e-cigarettes, they say.
Let’s be honest, is cricket really useful exercise?
Testing times as researchers promote health benefits of Twenty20 over one-day matches.
