Health

Psychologists are concerned about anxiety and depression becoming long-term problems due to the pandemic, with the worst effects felt by the young and the vulnerable.

Homesickness is no longer classified as a disease, yet it causes both anxiety and depression. The pandemic has magnified the grief and loss of distance and separation.

In the course of the pandemic, sign language has adapted and changed to deal with the demands of televised press conferences. Importantly, the interpreters are increasingly Deaf themselves.

Covid-19 has affected older people more severely than children, but scientists are increasingly concerned about long Covid in young people.

New analysis of the Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu National Park casts doubt on government claims it is not linked to high rates of cancer and stillbirth in nearby Indigenous communities.

Telehealth has been a crucial part of medicine during the pandemic – although it has also been a limiting one.

Three million Australians suffer from chronic pain – a condition that ruins lives and drains the health system. But will a multidisciplinary management strategy help to fight the opioid crisis?

The act of being made aware and acknowledging that medicine is not an exact science is as important for trainee physicians as it is for worried patients.

Health anxiety – or hypochondria, as it was once known – has become even more prevalent because of the coronavirus pandemic.

When we think of international students in monetary terms, we are ignoring their very human needs and challenges. Australia’s Covid-19 recovery will require these foreign visitors, but we need to rebuild trust and care.