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How to recognise a stroke and what you should know about their treatment

  • Written by: Caleb Ferguson, Chancellors Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
imageStroke affects one in every six people.from www.shutterstock.com.au

One in every six people will experience a stroke during their lifetime. And by the time you have read this article, it’s likely that someone in Australia will have experienced one. Stroke kills more women than breast cancer and more men than prostate cancer yet you’re...

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A mini stroke is a warning! A stroke may follow

  • Written by: Candice Delcourt, Clinical Research Fellow, George Institute for Global Health
imageSometimes people having a mini stroke can experience visual loss, dizziness or vertigo. D. Sinclair Terrasidius/Flickr, CC BY-SA

A mini stroke is also called a Transient Ischaemic Attack or TIA. It is a brief episode of dysfunction in the brain. Like a stroke, TIA’s onset is sudden, over a few seconds or minutes.

People having a mini stroke...

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Bilingual babies are better at detecting musical sounds, research shows

  • Written by: Liquan Liu, Lecturer in Child development, Western Sydney University
imageExposing babies to multiple languages can help them detect differences in musical sounds from an early age.from www.shutterstock.com

Exposure to multiple languages may sharpen infants’ music sensitivity in the first year after birth, new research has found.

Compared to infants learning one language (monolinguals), those who grow up with more...

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It is hard to see how Snapchat parent Snap will live up to expectations after its IPO

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
imageSpectacles by Snap Incwww.spectacles.com

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat is looking to go public with an IPO in March of 2017. Snap has filed its intentions secretly with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and it is expected to be valued at between US $20 and $25 billion. Snap’s current earnings are not publicly disclosed...

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  9. There may be a silver lining to Trump's trade policies
  10. As the world pushes for a ban on nuclear weapons, Australia votes to stay on the wrong side of history
  11. Three good reasons to worry about Trump having the nuclear codes
  12. Give prisoners internet access for a safer and more humane community
  13. There is more to good central bank governance than independence
  14. Modi’s surgical strike on black money relies on uptake of electronic payments
  15. Not everyone loves wheat -- so why not remove the bad bits
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  17. Trench art tells a story of survival and resilience
  18. Explainer: how do our bodies balance themselves?
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  22. Raimond Gaita on Donald Trump's America: a cloud cuckoo land devoid of fact, evidence and argument
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