50 episodes
Health Report - Separate stories podcast ABC listen
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- Health & Fitness
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4.4 • 76 Ratings
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Specialist and mainstream audiences alike rely on the Health Report to bring clarity to health and medical issues from social, scientific and political points of view.
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The use of mind-altering drugs in aged and disability care
The latest health news, including new standards of care for the use of psychotropic drugs in people with cognitive decline or disabilities.
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Can sexuality affect your life expectancy?
Researchers from Harvard found lesbian women died 20 per cent sooner than their heterosexual cohort, and bisexual women were even worse off, dying 37 per cent sooner.
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What are nanoplastics doing to our health?
These tiny plastics have the ability to cross biological barriers and cause havoc, but they're very hard to detect.
Scientists are trying to overcome hurdles so we can find out how nanoplastics interact with the human body. -
Mailbag: Grief and kidney transplants
A look at some of the Health Report correspondence this week, including some clarity of grief disorder, and the rules around organ donation.
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How much time should you spend sitting (or standing)?
Researchers have unpacked the optimal amount of time you should spend sitting versus standing for your health.
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A 'Health At Every Size' approach doesn't work on its own
If you’ve spent much time in the wellness space these past few years, you’ve probably heard of Health At Every Size – a movement that prioritises healthy habits over the size or shape of your body.
But while many people have found it freeing, a new review of the evidence shows that, at least when it comes to measures like cholesterol and blood pressure, it’s not enough on its own.
Laureate Professor Clare Collins is from the University of Newcastle.
Customer Reviews
Alternative Health?
Love the show & it's a regular / very enjoyable part of my medical 'reading' while driving to/from ED shifts in northern NSW but interested podcast is listed under Alternative Health. While Dr Swan is far from narrow minded about health care, I see the Health Report as reporting on current mainstream medicine rather than the generally less evidence based alternative stuff.
Missing episodes
I never miss an episode of this interesting and informative show. It’s a 5 star listen that is only being awarded 3 stars because the ABC hasn’t posted the latest 2 episodes of the show to podcast subscribers.
Biased toward broken convention in nutrition
Dr. Swan has a fine voice for radio. Almost trustworthy. I listen to hear how out of date Dr. Swan is when it comes to nutritional health science. Eat less, move more and the Mediterranean diet is so 20th century anchored and may only benefit a small segment of the unhealthy community. Whereas current researchers are resolving type 2 diabetes, for example, with creative application of the findings from the last decade of studies.