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Bed-wetting in older children and young adults is common and treatable

  • Written by: Patrina Ha Yuen Caldwell, Staff Specialist, Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead; Senior Lecturer, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
imageAbout 0.5-3% of older children and young adults still wet the bed at night.from www.shutterstock.com.au

This article is part of our series looking at health conditions in children. Later in the week, we’ll have others about childhood migraines and slapped cheek disease. Read yesterday’s article about nightmares and night terrors here.


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Australian foreign policy needs a broader conception of our national interest

  • Written by: Leanne Smith, Visiting Fellow, Australian National University
imageAustralia’s current public-policy space is too small to grapple with the huge geopolitical and environmental shifts underway.EPA/Mast Irham

In a world of growing uncertainty – exemplified by the UK’s Brexit vote, the possibility of a Trump presidency in the US, the recent decision on China’s activities in the South China...

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When bad ideas refuse to die: the denial of human individuality

  • Written by: Luke Smillie, Senior Lecturer in Psychology (Personality Psychology), University of Melbourne
imageWe're all individualsFlickr/Elisa Banfi, CC BY-NC-ND

It is generally thought that science helps good ideas triumph over bad. The weight of evidence eventually pushes false claims aside.

But some ideas march onward despite the evidence against them. The discredited link between vaccines and autism continues to cause mischief and climate change...

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For lovers of graffiti, Pokémon Go is old hat

  • Written by: Lachlan MacDowall, Head, Centre for Cultural Partnerships Faculty of the VCA and MCM, University of Melbourne
imagePokemon Go demonstrates how graffiti has grown into a new form of social media.Koppenbadger/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

For those of us who practice or follow graffiti and street art, the Pokémon Go craze doesn’t seem that new – and not just because street art and graffiti feature so prominently in the game play.

Rather, graffiti and...

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  1. Arctic birds face disappearing breeding grounds as climate warms
  2. Seven ways Australia can boost its connection with Indian universities
  3. Australia expands Iraq role to training law enforcement authorities
  4. Liberals deride quotas for women MPs but how are they going to make targets work?
  5. Under a single minister, will energy and the environment be friends or foes?
  6. Remind me again, how close are we to a cure for HIV?
  7. Australia's reputation for fine wines is under threat
  8. Is the new Senate vote capture system as risky as electronic voting?
  9. Lighting spotfires under a palace of colonial power
  10. City calls on jury of its citizens to deliberate on Melbourne's future
  11. Blockchains could help restore trust in the food we choose to eat
  12. Nightmares and night terrors in kids: when do they stop being normal?
  13. Mums and dads of very preterm babies more likely to be depressed
  14. Can religious vilification laws protect religious freedoms?
  15. We need to talk about the bad science being funded
  16. A realistic strategy for federal budget repair
  17. 'If you don't have a beer you're not a man' – rural workplaces made more dangerous by drugs and alcohol
  18. Whimsy, intimacy and a few bum notes in Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host
  19. It’s not easy being green, especially when affordable help is so hard to find
  20. Three ways to reform research that won’t break the budget
  21. Brendan Nelson declares Kevin Rudd is 'tailor made' for United Nations secretary-general job
  22. All you need for quantum computing at room temperature is some mothballs
  23. Turnbull's reshuffle: Pyne, Nationals winners; conservatives get little
  24. The off-topic Conversation #102
  25. Philip Morris speaks at and promotes an obscure lung disease conference
  26. Health Check: why do we get dry skin in winter?
  27. High-speed rail? At $200 billion we'd better get it right
  28. FactCheck Q A: how unusual is compulsory voting, and do 90% of New Zealanders vote without it?
  29. Memo Steve Price: how 'hysteria' has been used to degrade and control women
  30. Overconfidence is responsible for a lot of mistakes, here's how to avoid it
  31. Pokémon Go puts pressure on when technology meets the law
  32. Internet of Things data will help us predict the future
  33. A snapshot of children's health in Australia
  34. Do kids grow out of childhood asthma?
  35. GPs unlikely to pick up certain cancers right away because it's not the most likely diagnosis
  36. What's next for asylum seekers under a re-elected Turnbull government?
  37. How a little mathematics can help create some beautiful music
  38. A labour dump is unlikely under the China Australia free trade agreement
  39. Blockchain technology could be a game changer for developing communities
  40. How the Indian diaspora is shaping the battle for yoga's soul
  41. What lies beneath Antarctica's ice? Lakes, life and the grandest of canyons
  42. New Evidence for BPA and Obesity? Not so fast!
  43. Peak Pokémon: Despite its success, Pokémon Go's decline is already under way
  44. Capitalism and Democracy [part one]
  45. Nice attack brings a difficult question into sharp focus: why France?
  46. Why the health scheme for coal workers is inadequate to detect black lung
  47. You scratch my back... the beneficial (and not so beneficial) relationships between organisms
  48. Some answers, more questions over Dick Smith failure
  49. Nice attack: how vulnerable are we to 'low-tech terror'?
  50. A very serious painting of Barry Humphries is a welcome prize winner

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