Curtin University is utilising games technology to create web-based video simulations aimed at helping mental health experts identify and better communicate with people contemplating suicide. As the World Health Organization points out, suicide is the second leading cause of death ...

Western media’s coverage of female prime ministers’ gender and gender traits is getting worse, according to Australian National University (ANU) researcher Blair Williams. Williams explored the gendered nature of the news cycle in Australia, the UK and New Zealand as ...

Last week Campus Review published an article about the research of UWA's Dr Cyril Grueter and a team of Edith Cowan University researchers that suggested altruism or kindness as a personality trait does not apply to everyone, and is more ...

There are calls for a new whooping cough vaccine in the next five to 10 years to protect vulnerable individuals from what experts are calling superbug strains of the condition. Researchers at UNSW believe whooping cough bacteria are “becoming smarter ...

What makes someone help a stranger? Like me, a lot of people are likely to believe it’s an innate personality trait, a sense of altruism that runs through someone, something some individuals possess but others neither practice nor understand. But ...

Thankfully we’ve come a long way since people with mental health issues – such as depression, bipolar disorder or psychosis – were locked up in large, austere institutions or subjected to barbaric treatments, including crudely performed lobotomies. With the introduction of ...

Severe diets, fasting, diet pills and gastric bands. These are some of the lengths people with obesity have gone to in order to lose weight and regain their health. But now there may be more effective treatments on the way, ...

Speech and language acquisition researchers at Charles Sturt University have received The Editor’s Award for the best paper published in a prestigious US journal in 2018. The award recognises the most “impactful” works that also feature both outstanding research design ...

Education editor Wade Zaglas here, focusing on the top stories of the week. You can either listen to the podcast or read the summary below. One story that struck me as particularly impressive was Australia being ranked fifth in the ...

A new report is calling for urgent action to tackle the risks to human health posed by climate change. The report, written by Australian researchers and partner institutions of the 2019 MJA–Lancet Countdown report, was published today in the Medical Journal ...