GLP-1 meds (like Wegovy and Ozempic) are recommended as long-term treatments for obesity, according to new guidelines released by the World Health Organization (WHO). They also recommend behavioural ...

Overweight children who drop to a healthy weight before adulthood are no more likely to get heart disease later on than people who were never overweight, according to an overseas study of over 100,000 ...

If your teen spends more time on social media, they may not necessarily develop body issues, according to international researchers who looked at social media use on smartphones. The team collected ...

The smell of fatty foods during pregnancy might put babies at higher risk of obesity later in life, according to overseas research with mice. Scientists fed two groups of pregnant mice the same ...

New Open-source dataset pinpoints exactly when innovations transition from the lab to the real world. A team of researchers has built one of the most detailed open maps of emerging technologies yet ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its first-ever global guideline for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infertility, which is estimated to affect one in six people of ...

Excessive social media use may be driven by habit rather than genuine addiction, according to international research, which found that Instagram users tend to overestimate the extent to which they are ...

A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation has identified biomarkers that predict the likelihood of a patient developing checkpoint inhibitor-associated autoimmune diabetes before ...

A single stressful event can cause ongoing hair loss, according to US researchers. Their study using mice found that stress not only causes hair follicles to die, but it can also cause the immune ...

New research reveals that narrating painful or tragic experiences faced by immigrants fosters a stronger sense of connection and reduces feelings of threat. In contrast, nostalgic narratives, those ...

A new study led by Peter Mac Professor Louise Cheng on fruit-fly brains has uncovered how cells that form the brain’s protective barrier can act as “gatekeepers” and slow down the growth of some brain ...

Professor Esteban Marcellin writes about the COP30 in Brazil, its implications for Australia and the capabilities of The University of Queensland's new Biosustainability Hub. The climate conference ...