Overview
- Elderly people in regional Australia are on-selling prescription drugs to help pay their bills, the Rural Doctors Association has warned. Around 800 Australians die each year from prescription drug overdoses. The death toll is highest in rural and regional areas
- Research suggests that people who think positively have a better chance of recovering from serious illness than those who don’t. A University of Sydney study indicates optimistic thinking has the power to speed up the recovery of sick people, including cancer patients.
- Fat women experience fat stigma through many avenues in their lives, and perhaps the most dangerous is the impact fat stigma has on their experiences with health care.