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How your smartphone or wearable device could forecast illness

  • Written by: Caleb Ferguson, Senior Research Fellow, Western Sydney Local Health District &, Western Sydney University
How your smartphone or wearable device could forecast illnessFew health care professionals are currently tapping into smarthpone data to inform clinical decisions, but it could help.Shutterstock

What if you could forecast sickness, before you even had any symptoms? Your smartphone and digital data might be able to help.

If you carry your smartphone with you everywhere, then it’s probably already...

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Blood type, Pioppi, gluten-free and Mediterranean – which popular diets are fads?

  • Written by: Clare Collins, Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
Blood type, Pioppi, gluten-free and Mediterranean – which popular diets are fads?You might lose weight in the short term but fad diets are impossible to sustain.saltodemata/shutterstock

Each year, new weight loss diets appear that promise to reveal the ultimate secret of success – if only you buy the book, pills or potions.

Fad diets might achieve short-term results but they are difficult to sustain in the long term.

They...

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Australian literature’s legacies of cultural appropriation

  • Written by: Michael R. Griffiths, Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Wollongong
Australian literature’s legacies of cultural appropriationAustralian literature has a long history of appropriating and misrepresenting Aboriginal culture.Tom Williams

Non-Indigenous Australian writers face a dilemma. On the one hand, they can risk writing about Aboriginal people and culture and getting it wrong. On the other, they can avoid writing about Aboriginal culture and characters, but by doing...

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Report recommends overhaul of My Health Record, but key changes not supported by Coalition

  • Written by: Robert Merkel, Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University
Report recommends overhaul of My Health Record, but key changes not supported by CoalitionThe opt-out period for My Health Record closes on November 15.Shutterstock

The Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs report into the My Health Record system was released last Thursday. It has recommended several substantial changes to the way My Health Record operates that attempt to address security and privacy concerns raised about the...

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  2. Decoding the music masterpieces: Rossini's opera, Otello
  3. Why children in institutional care may be worse off now than they were in the 19th century
  4. how much physical activity is enough in older age?
  5. Why do flies vomit on their food?
  6. The five stages of grief don't come in fixed steps – everyone feels differently
  7. The national apology to victims of institutional child sexual abuse matters. Here's why
  8. is the Coalition spending '$1 billion extra, every year' on aged care?
  9. David Goldblatt's kind, calm photographs of South Africa exist in a morality minefield
  10. Nauru's life on the frontlines
  11. Some cybersecurity apps could be worse for privacy than nothing at all
  12. Turning 'big brother' surveillance into a helping hand to the homeless
  13. Wentworth mightn't be typical but it's the shrill canary in the mine
  14. Phelps consolidates her lead in Wentworth after nail biting day
  15. what is a hung parliament and how would it affect the passage of legislation?
  16. Wentworth byelection called too early for Phelps as Liberals recover in late counting
  17. Australia's native rhododendrons hide in the high mountain forests
  18. Liberals trounced in huge Wentworth swing, bringing a hung parliament
  19. William Forsythe's A Quiet Evening of Dance is surprising, amusing, but precise
  20. what's on the menu for Australia's top predator?
  21. With a billion reasons not to trust super trustees, we need regulators to act in the public interest
  22. One year on for Ardern's coalition government in New Zealand
  23. When Thailand and Australia were closer neighbours, tectonically speaking
  24. climate snake oil or the 1.5-degree panacea?
  25. Michelle Grattan on Morrison's pitch for the Jewish vote in Wentworth
  26. Pacific nations aren't cash-hungry, minister, they just want action on climate change
  27. the bacteria that live in and on us
  28. With the right help, bears can recover from the torture of bile farming
  29. family as 'brand' – the rise of the digital mumpreneur
  30. The Morrison government's biggest economic problem? Climate change denial
  31. Please don't dismiss the PC inquiry into mental health as 'just another inquiry'
  32. A Goblin could guide us to a mystery planet thought to exist in the Solar system
  33. this is what needs to be done to make a Central City CBD work
  34. the housing market might deflate, but it might pop. Here's how
  35. Scott Morrison braces for judgement by Malcolm Turnbull's old voters
  36. How rare minerals form when meteorites slam into Earth
  37. 15% of students admit to buying essays. What can universities do about it?
  38. Criticism of Western Civilisation isn't new, it was part of the Enlightenment
  39. don't bet the house on it
  40. More than a habit? When to worry about nail biting, skin picking and other body-focused repetitive behaviours
  41. don't think of it as a problem to be managed
  42. The resonances between Indigenous art and images captured by microscopes
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  44. Planning for death must happen long before the last few days of life
  45. Australia's naval upgrade may not be enough to keep pace in a fast-changing region
  46. How huge floods and complex infrastructure could have triggered ancient Angkor's demise
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