The fact that environmental standards are included in the Trans-Pacific Partnership at all is progress, a law expert has said. The TPP is a 12-country trade agreement with the stated goal of supporting economic growth, creating more jobs and raising ...

A majority of Australians agree climate change is happening, but their reason seems to depend on the political party they support. A five-year survey of almost 17,500 Australians by the CSIRO found that 78 per cent believed the earth's climate ...

Cancer sufferers are three times more likely to have memory loss than people without the disease, a new study has found. The impairment in cognitive function - memory, concentration and multi-tasking - for those with bowel cancer was the same ...

Medical cannabis is already legal in Australia and has been for a while, a researcher from the University of Sydney has said. Clinical associate professor Nick Lintzeris, from USYD’s Lambert Initiative for research into cannabis-based therapeutics, said there is great ...

Many members of the public are not taking responsibility for their contribution to antibiotic resistance, research from Bond University has found. The World Health Organization has called antibiotic resistance one of the biggest threats to global public health. Over-prescription and ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have taken one step forward in uncovering the mystery of the migraine. The underlying causes for migraines are unknown, although there are several theories. New research published in NMR in Biomedicine supports the theory ...

Research from the University of New England has found women in regional and rural Australia are more likely to be victims of intimate partner violence than those in metropolitan areas. Gina Dillon, from UNE’s school of rural medicine found from data sourced via ...

Stress during pregnancy may lead to poor co-ordination in children, West Australian research suggests. Almost 3000 mothers were asked to record stressful incidents in their pregnancies at 18 and 34 weeks. Their children then underwent a series of co-ordination tests ...

The University of Adelaide and the Australian Research Council have launched a major new research hub focused on Australia’s copper industry. Funded by a $2.52 million ARC grant, the ARC Research Hub for Cooper-Uranium aims to test and commercialise new, safe and cost-effective ...

Requiring prescriptions for codeine, in a vacuum, is highly unlikely to curb a spike in overdoses, a University of New South Wales researcher has said. This comes after the Therapeutic Goods Administration recommended codeine and all drugs containing codeine, including Panadeine ...