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29,000 cancers overdiagnosed in Australia in a single year

  • Written by: Alexandra Barratt, Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney
29,000 cancers overdiagnosed in Australia in a single yearMen are 17% more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than they were 30 years ago.fizkes/Shutterstock

Almost one in four cancers detected in men were overdiagnosed in 2012, according to our new research, published today in the Medical Journal of Australia.

In the same year, we found that approximately one in five cancers in women were overdiagnosed.

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10½ commandments of writing

  • Written by: Sean Williams, Lecturer, Flinders University
10½ commandments of writingThings to keep in mind for writers young and old.Kenny Luo/Unsplash

Every author is asked by new writers for advice. There is, however, no all-encompassing, single answer that also happens to be correct. Quite a lot of commonly offered suggestions (“write every day”) don’t work for everyone and must be approached with caution.

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How smart were our ancestors? Turns out the answer isn't in brain size, but blood flow

  • Written by: Roger S. Seymour, Professor Emeritus of Physiology, University of Adelaide
How smart were our ancestors? Turns out the answer isn't in brain size, but blood flowSkulls hold clues to intelligence. (Clockwise from left: Australopithecus, orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzee)Roger Seymour, Author provided

How did human intelligence evolve? Anthropologists have studied this question for decades by looking at tools found in archaeological digs, evidence of the use of fire and so on, and changes in brain size measured...

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The Wuhan coronavirus is now in Australia – here's what you need to know

  • Written by: Sanjaya Senanayake, Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Physician, Australian National University

New South Wales Health has confirmed three men in their 30s, 40s and 50s in Sydney have tested positive to the new Wuhan coronavirus after returning from China.

This follows Australia’s first case of the virus in a patient treated at Melbourne’s Monash Medical Centre – a man in his 50s who spent two weeks in Wuhan.

This brings the...

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