The Conversation, by Gemma Hamilton, Anastasia Powell and Naomi Pfitzner, 30 Jul 2018. So far today police in Australia would have dealt with on average 211 domestic violence matters It’s only a little over halfway through the year and already 37 Australian women have been killed by violence. On average, at least one Australian
Read moreBy Eliza Laschon , 22 May 2016, 11:07am Perth woman Cait Calcutt had a limited understanding of palliative care until the day she reached out to a service which transformed her family’s life. Ms Calcutt’s partner Nigel Livesey was in his early 40s when he was diagnosed with three chronic, life-limiting diseases. For nine years
Read moreBy Lisa Bero, 11 Oct 2018. World Obesity Day isn’t the most auspicious occasion but with two-thirds of Australia’s adults and a quarter of its kids either overweight or obese it isn’t a day we can ignore. Obesity has crept up on Australia over a number of years and is due to a number of
Read moreUpdated 28 Apr 2016, 8:30pm. ABC News Four nutritional supplements could make a big difference to the effectiveness of anti-depression medication, an international study by University of Melbourne researchers and colleagues from Harvard has found. Hundreds of millions of people take anti-depressants but they may not work for up to 50 per cent of patients.
Read moreApril 10, 2018 by Elana Oberlander More than 70 years since the end of World War II, there are still signs of intergenerational transmission of Holocaust trauma that are manifested in the way adult offspring of Holocaust survivors care for their elderly parents, according to a new study by researchers at Bar-Ilan University. To this
Read moreRuth sits with me crying. It is our first session together and she started crying from the moment she began to speak. In between sobs she told me her story. She had been married for 34 years and had a very close relationship with her husband Max. They did everything together-worked in the family business,
Read moreABC Health & Wellbeing By Darragh O’Keeffe. Updated 28 Apr 2016, 8:48am Imagine waking up one day and realising — aside from your partner or family — you have no-one to talk to. No close friend to call if you have lost your job, no shoulder to cry on if your parents are gone and
Read moreBy David Malham New York Times, March 11, 2015 I would not have chosen A.L.S. at the Pick Your Disease store, but there are worse things that can happen and worse ways for a life to end. The very fact that it was happening to me and not to my family was itself a relief.
Read moreUniversal Practice’s Sammy Wilson shares three simple ways to meditate for those who think it’s all too difficult. Just because your mind’s too focused on work matters and other things, doesn’t mean you can’t utilise one of the best relaxation technique available. Meditation can be practiced by anyone. If you were keen to take up
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