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Medicines to treat side effects of other medicines? Sometimes less is more beneficial

  • Written by Jesse Jansen, Senior Research Fellow, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
imageWhen more and more medicines have to be prescribed to control the side effects of previously prescribed medicines, it's best to discuss with your doctor whether the benefits outweigh the harms.from www.shutterstock.com.au

About two-thirds of people who are 75 years and older take five medicines or more. This is known as “polypharmacy”....

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Being 'job ready' is not the purpose of university science degrees

  • Written by Kelly E Matthews, Senior Lecturer in Higher Education; Australian Learning and Teaching Fellow, The University of Queensland
imageScience graduates struggle to find jobs straight after graduation.from www.shutterstock.com

Recent data – highlighted in the Grattan report Mapping Australian Higher Education 2016 – raised alarm bells about the employability of science graduates.

The report author, Andrew Norton, argues that science degrees are “risky”...

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Here's what Australia can do to help end the Chinese organ trade

  • Written by Wendy Rogers, Professor in Clinical Ethics, Macquarie University
imageFor many years, the number of transplants in China has been concealed.

Exact numbers are unknown, but a Daily Telegraph special feature reports at least some Australians travel each year to China for organ transplants. Many go for kidneys, some of which may come from living donors.

For those who travel to China for whole livers, lungs or hearts,...

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Dolly the Sheep and the human cloning debate - twenty years later

  • Written by Russell Blackford, Conjoint Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Newcastle
imageDolly photograph from Scottish National Museum

Dolly, the world’s most famous and controversial sheep, was born twenty years ago – on July 5, 1996 to be precise. She was the first mammal to enter the world following a process of reproductive cloning, making the event a spectacular scientific breakthrough.

To create Dolly, researchers at...

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  1. What Australia needs to do to protect consumers from untested stem-cell treatments
  2. #CensusFail: the ABS hasn't convinced the public their privacy is protected
  3. Horton wins by naming the elephant in the room at Rio Olympics
  4. Smart cities: does this mean more transport disruptions?
  5. Why credit rating agencies' economic advice shouldn't be trusted
  6. Can big data studies know your thoughts and predict who will win an election?
  7. Australians should also worry about white extremists in our own backyard
  8. Why talent transfer is key for a winning rugby Sevens team
  9. Land of the 'fair go' no more: wealth in Australia is becoming more unequal
  10. Ad skipping and blocking could spur an advertising arms race
  11. Why is doping wrong anyway?
  12. Answering the same questions over and over: how to talk to people with dementia
  13. Australia needs better policy to end the alarming increase in land clearing
  14. Here’s looking at: 'Boy with a straw hat ...' by Diane Arbus
  15. Explainer: the mysterious missing magnetic monopole
  16. Costello questions what the Turnbull government can achieve
  17. Does racism make us sick?
  18. Health Check: do cough medicines work?
  19. Free speech: would removing Section 18C really give us the right to be bigots?
  20. I won't be giving my name to census: Xenophon
  21. Explainer: what is the census, and why does it matter?
  22. FactCheck: do welfare recipients owe the Australian government about $3.5 billion?
  23. Can you 'teach' workers to be more emotionally resilient?
  24. India's GST promises growth, reform and opportunities
  25. Size is largely in the mind: how your body image can change in two minutes
  26. The new Senate looms as a serious problem for a damaged Malcolm Turnbull
  27. Death by dingo: outsourcing pest control raises uncomfortable questions
  28. Without action, Asia-Pacific ecosystems could lose a third of their value by 2050
  29. Can we learn from Thucydides' writings on the Trump of ancient Athens?
  30. What if intelligent machines could learn from each other?
  31. Why technology makes us dishonest: ways to reduce cheating at self-service checkouts
  32. Further Senate results and analysis
  33. The 'no' campaign on marriage equality owes us better arguments
  34. Capitalism and Democracy [part 3]
  35. Whither anarchy: the fantasy of natural law
  36. Whither anarchy: ownness as a form of freedom
  37. Turnbull inquiry-lite bank plan falls short
  38. Latest PBO costings won't hold any parties to account
  39. Here's how you beat 'indestructible' head lice
  40. One Nation's Malcolm Roberts is in denial about the facts of climate change
  41. Whither anarchy: perspectives on anarchism and liberty
  42. Whither anarchy: freedom as non-domination
  43. Are university flagship courses actually workable? And will they be a disaster for equity?
  44. The white man's burden: Bill Leak and telling 'the truth' about Aboriginal lives
  45. Fast food companies use social networking sites to target children
  46. So, how did the new Senate voting rules work in practice?
  47. Road rage: why normal people become harmful on the roads
  48. The man who brought science and a touch of humanity to Australia's Olympic swimming hopes
  49. We don't remove comments just because we disagree with them
  50. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the new Senate

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