This week, we released results from the Australian Child Maltreatment Study. It is the first national survey of the population aged 16 years and older about their experiences of child maltreatment. It’s also the first study globally to examine combined exposure to all five specific domains of child maltreatment and associated family risk factors for multiple types of child maltreatment. […]

The Veterans Administration Office of Healthcare Innovation and Learning and Veterans Experience Office launched a virtual reality pilot training program that is immersing staff in a computer-generated VA facility. WHY IT MATTERS The agency’s frontline team members gathered at the Orlando VA to experience that process from the veteran’s perspective in a train-the-trainer session, according to the VA in a […]

Sometimes your kids surprise you in the most heartfelt ways. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is reflecting on a sweet moment with his middle daughter Jasmine “Jazzy,” 7, who he shares with wife Lauren Hashian, and it’s making us feel emotional. Over the weekend, the little girl joined her dad for a Samoan dance in Hawaii that has a very special […]

My little girl was diagnosed with eye cancer – the warning sign was worryingly subtle Isla Palul was diagnosed with retinoblastoma in January 2021 aged 14 months The mothers of Isla, now aged three, noticed her right eye was ‘whizzing’ around A mother has revealed the worryingly subtle sign her then-14-month-old daughter had eye cancer.  Isla Palul’s mothers, Rebecca and […]

Dr Zoe Williams discusses visceral fat on This Morning Visceral fat is a different type of fat from subcutaneous fat, which is located just under the skin. Instead, it is stored deep within the belly making it hard to see. A certain amount is needed to protect and insulate vital organs. However, having too much is cause for concern due […]

As a teenager, Evelyn Miller became anxious about her health condition. “I felt so much anxiety,” Evelyn, now 31, recalled when it came to her intimate relationships. She was diagnosed with uterus didelphys in 2011 by a gynaecologist at the Women and Children’s Hospital in Australia. This meant she had a double uterus, two sets of ovaries and two vaginas, […]

It’s hard to believe there was once a time when we collectively agreed that changing your Facebook relationship status to ‘it’s complicated’ was a good idea, but 2010 was a different time. Nowadays, it’s all about soft launching your beau: a subtle reveal by way of an extra glass on a dinner table, or a mysterious caption that whispers, ‘I’m […]

Therapeutics that use mRNA-;like some of the COVID-19 vaccines-;have enormous potential for the prevention and treatment of many diseases. These therapeutics work by shuttling mRNA 'instructions' into target cells, providing them with a blueprint to make specific proteins. These proteins could help tissues to regenerate, replace misfunctioning proteins, or prompt an immune response, providing a variety of different treatment strategies. […]

The human body contains more than 30 trillion cells. Until recently, the sheer number of cells in the organism meant that approaches to understanding human diseases and developmental processes based on the analysis of single cells were a futuristic vision. The development of new sequencing methods is currently revolutionizing our understanding of cellular heterogeneity. These technologies can detect rare or […]

Although certain core brain regions are involved in the processing of all languages, these regions show distinct activation patterns during the processing of different languages. The different brain activation patterns observed during the processing of specific languages suggest that individuals with different native languages would show structural differences in the brain. A new study found that native Arabic and German […]