Science and technology - Health and medicine

Not spilling the beans is a healthy choice

Mark Seery | 10 June 2008 | comment 5

It’s your trauma and you can keep it to yourself if you want to, no harm done, says a psychologist.

Overweight and over-hyped

Michael Cook | 29 February 2008 | comment 4

Panicking over the obesity epidemic won't help anyone.

A realistic strategy for fighting African AIDS

Matthew Hanley | 29 February 2008 | comment 39

Discussion of the African AIDS crisis is riddled with ideology. The evidence shows that utilitarian HIV prevention guidelines are failing. 

Mind and soul

Aaron Kheriaty | 29 November 2007 | comment 13

Psychiatry has typically shunned religion, but a unique forum at one university has them talking to each other - for the sake of the patient.

Protecting the pill

Carolyn Moynihan | 16 November 2007 | comment 18

Why does the medical establishment keep playing down the risks of oral contraceptives?

Playing catch-up with scientific change

Stephen Buckle | 16 August 2007 | comment 3

One of the great cliches of modern journalism is that technology is racing far ahead of morals. A very convenient excuse, says a philosopher.

Can’t you give her a needle?

Frank Brennan | 15 June 2007 | comment 12

A palliative care physician remembers an unexpected request from the husband of a dying patient.

Focus on gender politics: Is changing gender as simple as changing clothes?

Theron Bowers | 07 June 2007 | comment 54

Newsweek recently painted a sympathetic portrait of women imprisoned in men's bodies. Such people need a psychiatrist, not a surgeon.

Death for sale is a step into the dark

Michael Cook | 09 May 2007 | comment 16

Suicide and the internet make a potent brew, as the work of one of the world's most prominent euthanasia campaigners shows.

Saintly scientists: Hate the disease, love the diseased

Carolyn Moynihan | 27 April 2007 | comment 11

The Frenchman who discovered trisomy 21 was heroically professional when he insisted it could be cured.

Saintly scientists: ‘Love always wins’

Monica Rafie | 26 April 2007 | comment 5

It is a fitting motto for a heart surgeon who could also one day be declared a saint.

Born too soon

Carlo Bellieni | 03 January 2007

Increasing numbers of babies are born very premature or below weight. Should we try to save them all?

Health warning: shopping is addictive

Theron Bowers | 06 December 2006

Help is near for holiday shopaholics from American psychiatrists.

Special workers

Alejo Sison | 09 November 2006 | comment 1

An unusual Spanish business model employs disabled workers and turns a convincing profit.

AIDS: what’s happening in Uganda?

Carolyn Moynihan | 19 April 2006

Ugandan paediatrician Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige faces the scourge of AIDS every day in her young patients. In this interview she suggests that the solution is not more condoms.

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