As the number of new cases of coronavirus infection continue to rise the impact is now being felt in schools in Australia. At least four closed due to students and a staff member testing positive for the virus. Most international ...
Mar 11, 2020
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News articles containing misinformation about fentanyl—falsely suggesting that people can overdose and die from simply touching the synthetic opioid—are shared and spread far more widely on social media than stories that ...
Sep 28, 2020
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If you spend 30 minutes less on social media every day and engage in physical activity instead, you do a lot to improve your mental health. This is shown in a study conducted by a team from the Mental Health Research and ...
Sep 7, 2022
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Media reports on chronic pain are focusing on treatments involving opioids and cannabis at the expense of best practice non-drug treatments, researchers have found.
Jan 16, 2020
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Finding reliable, accurate information about the novel coronavirus COVID-19 is becoming more convoluted each day, especially when it comes to social media. With an overwhelming amount of information, it can be difficult to ...
Mar 19, 2020
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If you're one of the world's 1.3 billion regular Facebook users, you'll know the feeling of being consumed by your news feed.
Jan 30, 2015
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Vaccine uptake constitutes a key barometer as governments lead communities out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Facts and fake news have apparently influenced vaccination willingness. But how valid is this proposition?
Mar 25, 2022
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The world is reeling in the aftermath of the horrific shootings in Christchurch. The attack has also raised a number of side issues, including the ethics of broadcasting the live stream of the attack, which was later shared ...
Mar 19, 2019
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Repeated exposure to media coverage of collective traumas, such as mass shootings or natural disasters, can fuel a cycle of distress, according to a University of California, Irvine study. Researchers found that individuals ...
Apr 17, 2019
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The outbreak of influenza that swept the globe in 1918 infected an estimated 500 million people—about one-third of the world's population at the time—and killed between 20 million and 50 million people, including some ...
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