March 2022: preventive health in the news

The list is not comprehensive and mainly focusses on topics relevant to the work of the Prevention Centre. Some articles may be behind paywalls but we try to avoid them.

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• Sydney researchers honoured with NHMRC leadership awards
  Sydney University News, 31 March 2022
• Are faux meat products better for your health?
  Yahoo, 31 March 2022
• New GP network to help boost remote clinical trial access
  newsGP, 30 March 2022
• Ultra-processed foods are trashing our health – and the planet
  The Conversation, 29 March 2022
• Trying to cut back on alcohol? Here’s what works
  The Conversation, 29 March 2022
• The Health Wrap: on budget day, and with an election looming, it’s time to get out the calculators
  Croakey, 29 March 2022
• Prevention power needs dollars and sense
  Croakey, 28 March 2022
• High-tech vaping sensors installed in Victorian schools
  9News, 28 March 2022
• Heart-healthy life: GPs redefining the “new normal”
  MJA Insight, 28 March
• GPs key to chronic heart failure management
  MJA Insight, 28 March
• Why the Australian Medical Association is calling for a sugar tax in budget in #SicklySweet campaign
  Canberra Times, 28 March 2022
• How obesity affects the chances of complications during pregnancy
  Sydney Morning Herald, 27 March 2022
• ‘Lack of courage’: Peak medical body pushes for taxes to sugary drinks
  Canberra Times, 25 March 2022
• How heat became the ‘silent killer’ stalking Australia
  Sydney Morning Herald, 25 March 2022
• Spike in domestic violence after bottle shop hours extended
  9News, 24 March 2022
• Fears Australian schools could be doing more harm than good in their quest for healthy eating
  ABC News, 21 March 2022
• Have the benefits of statins been overstated?
  newsGP, 21 March 2022
• ‘Colonised by boys’: How school playgrounds deter girls from physical activity
  Sydney Morning Herald, 20 March 2022
• Tinder for quitting booze: New app aims to swipe away alcohol cravings
  Brisbane Times, 20 March 2022
• Australia needs greater regulation on vaping
  Sydney Morning Herald, 20 March 2022
• Dire report reveals Australia’s drinking problem
  7News, 19 March 2022
• Doctors call for restrictions on vapes ‘aimed at kids’ as import ban fails to hurt black market
  Sydney Morning Herald, 19 March 2022
• Remote Queensland communities brace for skyrocketing living costs
  ABC News, 18 March 2022
• Diabetes risk could be 28% higher after COVID infection
  newsGP, 18 March 2022
• From the ashes: Smoking’s curious comeback on the silver screen
  Good Weekend, 18 March 2022
• Closing Gap on smoking in pregnant Aboriginal women
  National Tribune, 17 March 2022
• Close the gap: Transformational change and allyship
  newsGP, 17 March 2022
• Cutting beer tax not the solution to cost-of-living pressures
  Sydney Morning Herald, 16 March 2022
• NSW Health introduces first LGBTIQ+ strategy to end sector stigma and discrimination
  Sydney Morning Herald, 16 March 2016
• How often do young women die of heart attacks and what can you do to improve your heart health?
  The Conversation, 16 March 2022
• Charities and NFPs to benefit from free impact-measurement tool
  The Mandarin, 16 March 2022
• Rewards lead to more weight loss: CSIRO
  Canberra Times, 15 March 2022
• NSW campaign challenges teens ‘do you know what you’re vaping?’
  Sydney Morning Herald, 15 March 2022
• Vaping, a constant craving for too many of my school friends
  Sydney Morning Herald, 15 March 2022
• The truth about artificial sweeteners and what they do to your body
  Brisbane Times, 15 March 2022
• How living near Sydney’s green spaces makes you healthier and happier
  Sydney Morning Herald, 15 March 2022
• Implementing the National Obesity Strategy: no time to waste
  MJA Insight, 14 March 2022
• Women can’t believe it when I tell them they’ve had a heart attack
  Sydney Morning Herald, 13 March 2022
• Two beers a day can age your brain
  news.com.au, 13 March 2022
• COVID-19 drinking habits: pandemic-induced stress sees middle-aged women turn to alcohol
  Sydney Morning Herald, 12 March 2022
• Yes, real difference can be made to your heart and health in middle age
  Brisbane Times, 12 March 2022
• Australia owes real change and reform for at-risk children, assistant minister says
  The Mandarin, 11 March 2022
• ‘This is our biggest killer’: Shock deaths put spotlight on heart disease
  Sydney Morning Herald, 11 March 2022
• Why are Aboriginal Australians still dying from an entirely preventable disease?
  newsGP, 10 March 2022
• What to eat to prevent kidney disease
  SBS news, 9 March 2022
• Spain plans ban on influencers pushing unhealthy foods to children
  The Guardian, 9 March 2022
• Farmers’ report warns climate crisis puts Australia’s food supply at increasing risk
  The Guardian, 9 March 2022
• As we learn to live with the virus, there’s a big question we have to face: how much death are we willing to accept?
  ABC News, 8 March 2022
• Fluid diets are risky for heart health, experts say
  ABC News, 8 March 2022
• MPs campaign for beer tax cut as booze lobby targets marginal seats
  Sydney Morning Herald, 8 March 2022
• Concerned about your risk of a heart attack? Here are 5 ways to improve your heart health
  The Conversation, 7 March 2022
• Last year, half a million Australians couldn’t afford to fill a script. Here’s how to rein in rising health costs
  The Conversation, 7 March 2022
• Delivering COVID recovery to disadvantaged communities
  MJA Insight, 7 March 2022
• She needed life-saving surgery. A hospital gave her Panadol through a grate and sent her away
  ABC News, 7 March 2022
• You can stroll your way to a younger, healthier brain
  Sydney Morning Herald, 7 March 2022
• Health literacy of poorer populations a focus for Tasmania’s new strategic health plan
  The Examiner, 6 March 2022
• Warne’s untimely death a wake-up call for men in their 40s and 50s
  Sydney Morning Herald, 5 March 2022
• Junk food toys and prizes could be banned in effort to tackle kids’ obesity
  Sydney Morning Herald, 4 March 2022
• Australia’s first National Obesity Strategy launched on World Obesity Day
  The National Tribune, 4 March 2022
• We can’t keep relying on charities and the food industry to supply food after disasters – the government must lead
  The Conversation, 4 March 2022
• People with intellectual disability die 27 years earlier than other Australians. Can a new campaign remedy that?
  ABC News, 4 March 2022
• Wellbeing of children and families focus of new Australian research centre
  The Mandarin, 3 March 2022
• Steep rise in health burden of osteoarthritis
  newsGP, 3 March 2022
• Schools lock toilets to tackle rampant vaping
  Sydney Morning Herald, 3 March 2022
• Doctors say climate change is already having devastating effects on our health
  ABC News, 1 March 2022
• Muscle strengthening lowers risk of death from all causes, study shows
  The Guardian, 1 March 2022
• The TGA has issued a health influencer ‘ban’. This is what it means
  Sydney Morning Herald, 1 March 2022

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