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Blood pressure targets – what does the new guideline say and how low should you go?

  • Written by Brett Montgomery, Senior Lecturer in General Practice, University of Western Australia

This week, the Heart Foundation launched new national guidelines on the management of high blood pressure (hypertension). There are several changes since the last edition, but the one making headlines is a lower blood-pressure target. Instead of aiming for a (systolic) target of 140 in most people with hypertension, 120 is recommended for many.

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Here's how to close the gap on Indigenous women smoking during pregnancy

  • Written by Gillian Sandra Gould, NHMRC Research Fellow and CINSW Research Fellow, Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research, University of Newcastle
imageIndigenous women who smoke are well aware of the risks for their babies and want to do something about it. Ray Kelly

Almost half of pregnant Indigenous women smoke compared to one in eight in the non-Indigenous population. This means 7,000-9,000 Indigenous Australian babies every year are exposed to smoking in the womb.

Children exposed to tobacco...

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Politics serves as therapy when Trump takes the stage

  • Written by Brendon O'Connor, Associate Professor in American Politics at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
imageTrump and the Republican Convention were high on emotion.Reuters/Mike Segar

Having displaced religion as the organising framework of American culture, the therapeutic outlook threatens to displace politics as well. - Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism, 1979

Since the election of George W. Bush, I have been telling anyone who would listen...

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Smoothies as talismans: the allure of superfoods and the dangers of nutritional primitivism

  • Written by Jessica Loyer, PhD Candidate in Humanities, University of Adelaide
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Superfoods are everywhere these days. Once found only in niche health food shops, displays of “exotic” superfoods like açai from the Brazilian Amazon and maca from the Peruvian Andes now appear in supermarket chains, chemists, and convenience stores.

One can hardly open a newspaper or magazine without coming across a...

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  7. How do we uncouple global development from resource use?
  8. Sleep problems that persist could affect children's emotional development
  9. Study of top business innovators shows more is needed than being tech savvy
  10. Earning influence: what power might Bernardi's grassroots lobby have?
  11. Migraines in childhood and adolescence: more than just a headache
  12. Climate policy needs a new lens: health and well-being
  13. A new brain-warp technique that helps to reconstruct fossil brains
  14. Productivity Commission attacks competition 'effects test' and farm foreign investment rules
  15. Bitter row over move to dump Kim Carr from ALP frontbench
  16. Coalition likely to face difficult Senate
  17. Don’t just blame older Australians for increased hospital demand
  18. Lessons from the election
  19. Death on smartphones: in a world of live streamed tragedy, what do we gain?
  20. The environment-energy superportfolio can deliver real action – here's how
  21. Former ambassador to China to be new Foreign Affairs department head
  22. Melania Trump's speech follows a long history of plagiarism in public life
  23. Queenslanders will soon see in real-time who's paying politicians – now Canberra must act
  24. Don’t poke the Bear: what could Russia do next about drugs in sport?
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  26. Stark divide between young and old as Australian household incomes and wealth stall
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  30. Australian foreign policy needs a broader conception of our national interest
  31. When bad ideas refuse to die: the denial of human individuality
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  35. Australia expands Iraq role to training law enforcement authorities
  36. Liberals deride quotas for women MPs but how are they going to make targets work?
  37. Under a single minister, will energy and the environment be friends or foes?
  38. Remind me again, how close are we to a cure for HIV?
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  40. Is the new Senate vote capture system as risky as electronic voting?
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