Health

Shot of confidence: Building trust in vaccination programs

A new paper in the Journal of Public Health finds that highlighting the harms of not getting vaccinated is a more effective message than emphasizing the benefits of vaccination for individual patients or the benefits to public ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Youth mental health outcomes varied during pandemic, study finds

The COVID-19 pandemic caused many disruptions in the daily lives of children and families around the world, which has been associated with various mental health challenges among youth. However, a new study from the Environmental ...

Health

Nutritionist offers advice on iron supplementation

Iron deficiency is common and can be debilitating. It mainly affects women. One in three premenopausal women are low in iron compared to just 5% of Australian men. Iron deficiency particularly affects teenage girls, women ...

Vaccination

EU approves Moderna's RSV vaccine for over 60s

The European Commission on Friday approved Moderna's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for older adults—the first time the bloc has authorised an mRNA shot against a disease other than COVID-19.

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