Health Report
Episodes
29 August: Plant-based vs keto diets | Vitamin toxicity | Added sugar labels | COVID-19 genetics
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vital health and medical news.
22 August: Early time-restricted eating | Healthy produce prescriptions | Weight management with GPs
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how changing your diet—or even your eating schedule—can improve your long-term health outcomes.
15 August: Myocarditis | Alcohol marketing | Methadone stigma | Social housing
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vital health and medical news.
8 August: Cervical cancer screening | Miscarriage and stroke risk | BCG vaccine and kids | Shingles update
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An option for cervical cancer screening could be a game-changer and miscarriages or stillbirths may bring an increased risk of stroke
1 August: Ventilation | Vitamin D | Shingles
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With COVID there are more protective measures to take—and there's a historical parallel | The results of a trial of vitamin D supplementation find ...
25 July: Health services in the final year of life; clarity for legal wording on voluntary assisted dying; social inequity and heart attack; climate and mental health
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The amount of money to spend on health care in the last year of someone's life is debatable. | The vital eligibility criterion for voluntary assisted...
18 July: Living with COVID ain't rosy; Why vax boosters are necessary; Exercise won't fix poor diet
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Some immunologists are concerned that COVID-19 is not travelling as expected. An internationally respected immunologist had four doses of COVID vacci...
11 July: Tackling obesity | Standards on how to handle sepsis | The right amount of Vitamin D
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2009 Australia launched a National Preventive Health Strategy with the aim of being the healthiest country in the world by 2020—where we're at w...
4 July: Coming to terms with long COVID; Vaxes for variants; An artificial pancreas; Protecting pandemic teens
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Australia has many stories from people who say they have long COVID but who are unable to access help | Updated versions of coronavirus vaccines targ...
Speculating on an Australian Centre of Disease Control and Prevention; How Indigenous culture can protect the heart; Associations between mental health and mortality
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What an Australian Centre for Disease Control might aim to be; An Indigenous perspective and research to engage culture for protection against cardio...
Breast density and MRIs, diet and mental health, genomics and osteoarthritis
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There may be a link between what you eat and your mental health—also, avoiding overtreatment for breast cancer; predicting your risk of osteoarthri...
The cancer risks that run through generations
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The cancer risks that run through generations of families—and the growing frontier in medicine trying to change that.
Cancer treatment and 'time toxicity'; youth mental health and smoking; a paradox for cholesterol levels
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The term 'time toxicity' expresses the idea that if treatment to extend a patient's life means lengthy periods in medical facilities, it may be time ...
Abortion access, lipid profiling; quality of life and cancer drugs; exercise and kids' heart surgery
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Those at greatest risk from unplanned pregnancy are often least able to access it; Study on 800 different lipids to check your metabolic risk and he...
What is monkeypox and where is it coming from? treating the rise in melanoma cases; better stroke management; comparing data on mental health conditions against immune-related diseases
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Combating monkeypox with increased vaccination—and monitoring polio cases in Ukraine; Treating the increasing number of melanoma cases; A faster an...
Considering health issues ahead of an election
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ahead of the election, The Health Report hosts a discussion between experts about the pressing health issues. What are the most pronounced problems, ...
Mortality mapped to electorates, prostate surgery and relationships, how doctors can better treat Indigenous patients
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The risk of premature mortality has been mapped on to federal electorates and Australia's lack of response to the disparity contrasts with that of th...
Climate and new virus vectors; advice on prescribing opioids for pain; triggers for an oesophagal problem; cost of macular disease medication
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Global warming will probably mean that wildlife travels more and mixes with other species—and an effect will be to spread unfamiliar viruses; There...
The lowdown on longevity
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's expected now that we will generally live longer, but what really interests people is how to spend their longer life in good health—what to do ...
Chimeras in medicine, Pt2—avatars; What's to be done about tinnitus
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Oncologists don't always know which chemotherapy drug will work best, and even then, one treatment won't suit everyone. So there's growing research o...
Chimeras in medicine: xenotransplantation
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many people are waiting for an organ donation and some of them may die before a suitable organ is found. Some researchers think that in the near futu...
Effect of pain medication on immunity; impact of the Budget on GPs and healthcare; importance of planning global vaccination
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A review of multiple studies on common painkillers found that they have a marked effect on our resistance to infection—which is sometimes bad and s...
Research on passive antibodies to combat Omicron | Is Transient Ischaemic Attack an obsolete term? | Treating blood pressure may affect blood flow to the brain? | How hormones and hypertension are related
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Assessing the continuing ability to treat COVID-19 with antibody infusions. | A 'temporary stroke' means people get the signs of a stroke but the sym...
The changing demographic of blood groups; diet to ease MS; relationship of mental health and dementia
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What we know about the diversity of blood group types in Australia has just been updated—it reflects patterns in immigration. And we discuss the po...
Japanese Encephalitis vectors; climate change and effect on health; archival heart transplant; and data behind decreased heart attacks
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Japanese Encephalitis (JEV) is common in Asia but now causing concern in Australia. The rise of JEV in Australia happened when the Intergovernmental ...
Out of pocket health costs; faecal microbiome transplants; stomas
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Australia is lucky to have free healthcare services—but there can be big gaps in who receives it; reports on two people with bipolar disorder findi...
COVID didn't come from a lab; can you trust blood pressure monitors; your preference for more—or perhaps less—health care; studying concussion and head knocks
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Two recent scientific publications show that the pandemic originated in the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, in Wuhan, China. The publications are n...
Developments in heart transplants; Achilles tendon rupture intel; and cardiomyopathy in meth users
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An Achilles tendon rupture is sometimes heard as a loud 'snap'—so then what? And how the cardiologists are developing new devices for heart transpl...
Living younger for longer; tingles as intervention for anxiety; finding pancreatic cancer early
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tech and physical activity; Insomnia and depression; Retinal age; and early intervention as treatment for BPD
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What happens after omicron; action on blood pressure; coronary artery disease; BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What COVID-normal might mean; hearing loss and screening kids; depression and inflammation; genes and the heart
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brendan Crabb on how we best understand and get to a COVID-normal life. Also, there's reason to consider screening kids at primary school age for hea...
Navigating the pandemic: Dr Anthony Fauci
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, one expert came to the fore as a trusted voice, not just in his home country of the United States, b...
Substance use omnibus: Protecting kids from drug and alcohol misuse; the relationship of alcohol in pregnancy and kids later use; drinking culture and avoiding the pressure to drink;
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An omnibus episode about protecting kids from drug and alcohol misuse.
Rising ICE use in Australia; and an account of the difficulty in quitting
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What you need to know about ICE-crystal meth, and a first-hand account of how difficult it is to quit an ICE addiction.Both items in this programs we...
The enduring stigma surrounding Borderline Personality Disorder
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Borderline Personality Disorder is one of the most stigmatised and misunderstood mental health conditions. It affects a significant number of people ...
The day I lost my mind
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you mention Transient Global Amnesia – TGA – the chances are that nobody has heard of it. When Dasha Ross lost her memory for a day she was di...
Psychedelic drugs and psychotherapy; evaluating a cancer therapy; mental health and your heart; exercise and your brain
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Report on Omicron reinfection rates; screen use after concussion; exercise after concussion; infant formula and cognitive development
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The new variant Omicron; platelet-rich plasma in knees and ankles; and Parkinson's possible connection to influenza
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stillbirth in lockdown, health risks for adolescents, sleep disorder with fly-in fly-out rosters, senescent cancer cells
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Youth mental health care; COVID vaccines of the future; balancing cancer treatment and vaccination
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Women's health: menopause and cardiovascular risk; efficacy of vaginal laser use; remedies for incontinence; tools to improve breast cancer screening
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What to know about buying and using rapid antigen tests | chimeras in medicine part 2 | more snakebite information
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rapid antigen tests can now be purchased by the general public, and what you need to know. There's Part 2 of our Chimeras in medicine—the use of an...
Chimeras in medicine: xenotransplantation
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many people are currently waiting for an organ donation, and some of those waiting may die before a suitable organ is found. However some researchers...
COVID-19 boosters; the big uptake for digital health; cholesterol in different age groups; amputation decision aid
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the world opens up after COVID-19, what should we know about further vaccination; cholesterol studies in different age groups; digital health and ...
Malaria and vector-borne diseases, the Hippocratic Oath, the best way to treat snake bite
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Malaria and the implications of a vaccine for it; a new book about what happens to the Hippocratic Oath when it's in the real world; and, if you are ...
The widespread gender bias in healthcare
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The gender bias in healthcare is pervasive and causes harm when women receive worse treatment during a heart attack, are denied proper pain relief wh...
Who gets care if hospitals become overwhelmed?; colorectal cancer risks; and the myth of placebos
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What may happen if the hospital systems in NSW and Victoria are overwhelmed when we open up at 70 and 80% and the expected surge in cases occurs?New ...
The enduring stigma surrounding Borderline Personality Disorder
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Borderline Personality Disorder is one of the most stigmatised and misunderstood mental health conditions. It affects a significant number of people ...
The first year of COVID; the 'molecular messages' sent during exercise; is orthopaedic surgery over prescribed?; and can a combination pill transform how blood pressure is treated?
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How did Australia fare in the first year of the pandemic? What are the 'molecular messages' our body sends during exercise and how can they be used t...
Vaccine rates in Indigenous communities; the origins of The Black Death; understanding illness caused by ticks; and the trial of Theranos founder begins
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID outbreak in regional New South Wales is highlighting the comparatively low vaccination rates in Indigenous communities.New research uncover...
Can substituting salt save lives?; the science of the COVID modelling; and Toxoplasma Gondii and cognitive decline
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What new research shows about the effect of substituting salt and health - can it save lives?
Have we misunderstood the Doherty modelling?; High viral loads in vaccinated people; COVID risks to children; and substance use and the developing teenage brain
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Australia is pinning its hopes on modelling that says restrictions can start to ease once we hit vaccination targets, but will the high case numbers ...
How can ventilation be improved to protect against COVID; post-op lung complications in patients who isolated before surgery; what's it like living with tinnitus?; and calls to do more to prevent chronic disease
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can ventilation be improved to help reduce the spread of COVID?The surprising discovery that patients who isolate prior to surgery are more likel...
The modelling on the pathway out of the pandemic; why critical care for women having heart attacks is being delayed; and alcohol use and anxiety
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We now have modelling to guide our way out of the pandemic, but some researchers say we will need to vaccinate even younger age groups to reach suffi...
The frontline of the NSW COVID outbreak; the race to find more effective COVID treatments; and COVID risk for people living with mood disorders
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What are people experiencing in intensive care as a result of the delta COVID outbreak and how are hospitals coping?
COVID vaccine trials for young children; COVID's mental health toll on Indigenous communities; should bilateral cataract surgery be done on the same day?; and the link between bone loss and cognitive decline
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Right now overseas, several covid vaccines are being trialled in children as young as babies 6 months of age. So how long will it be until younger ki...
Managing resources in the pandemic; review of COVID research; low value care; and how to prevent kids misusing alcohol
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What's the best way to manage finite resources in the middle of a pandemic and what can Australia learn from other countries; what a review of COVID ...
Growing COVID crisis in NSW; the origins of COVID; vaccine protection for people with blood cancers; and can exercise help those with poor sleep quality?
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does modelling tell us about what it will take to bring the NSW COVID cluster under control; scientists try to settle the debate about the origi...