Articles by The Conversation
Huntington's disease (HD) has long been impossible to cure, but new research is finally giving fresh hope.
HD is a progressive, hereditary brain disease that affects movement, cognition, and emotion�...
Stiff knees, aching hips, and the slow grind of chronic joint pain are often accepted as an unavoidable part of getting older.
But while osteoarthritis is the world's most common joint disease, expe�...
Older adults can dramatically reduce the amount of ultra-processed foods they eat while keeping a familiar, balanced diet and this shift leads to improvements across several key markers related to ho�...
A UK man who is thought to be Britain's youngest dementia sufferer recently passed away from the disease at only 24 years old. Andre Yarham, from Norfolk in England, was just 22 when he was first dia�...
A new year might mean new viral threats.
Old viruses are constantly evolving. A warming and increasingly populated planet puts humans in contact with more and different viruses. And increased mobili�...
We spend a third of our lives asleep. And a quarter of our time asleep is spent dreaming. So, for the average person alive in 2022, with a life expectancy of around 73, that clocks in at just over si�...
Recent surveys estimate more than 6.7 million Australians almost half of all workers, and the majority in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra work from home at least some of the time in paid or unpaid ro�...
Ever been about to pour rancid milk down the sink and thought"Hmm, maybe I shouldn't"? What about the tomato passata that's gone off? Or the water you washed the paint in? Or that pungent oil from a �...
A large Swedish study reported a lower risk of dementia among middle-aged and older adults who consumed higher amounts of full-fat cheese and cream. The findings may sound like welcome news but they �...
There's an unwritten rule in publishing, or so I've been told: Don't write about COVID. Our collective attention span has been saturated by those endless months holed up in attics and cramped corners�...
