I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about in this week’s column. I have been feeling a little low about the current state of Australia and although, here in Canberra we are doing incredibly well, I feel a heaviness for the people close by who are suffering and struggling. The mental health impacts… Read More »
Early identification and treatment is vital to avoid long-term mental health consequences from COVID-19 among children and young people, say researchers. Writing in the Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy Journal, the psychologists from the University of Bath highlight how health anxieties can be triggered by changes like returning to school and argue that young people need… Read More »
Kids can get the coronavirus too, but what parents may not know is that children are more contagious despite having mild or no symptoms, according to a recent study by Massachusetts General Hospital. For the investigation, researchers looked at 192 children between ages 0 and 22. Of these individuals, 49 tested positive for the coronavirus,… Read More »
By Michael Le Page The site of sperm production, as shown in a coloured scanning electron micrograph imageSTEVE GSCHMEISSNER / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The first reliable way of isolating sperm stem cells from the testes and growing them outside the body could help infertile men have genetic children of their own. A few teams have… Read More »