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Domperidone can boost breast milk supply – here's what you need know

  • Written by: Luke Grzeskowiak, NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow – Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide
Domperidone can boost breast milk supply – here's what you need knowIt's not suitable for women with heart problems, but otherwise is a safe and effective option.Alex Pasarelu

Breast milk is the best form of nutrition for infants’ growth and development. But some women don’t produce enough milk to exclusively breastfeed their baby.

We don’t have good data on the proportion of women with breast...

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Articulate US teenagers could finally force action on gun control

  • Written by: George Rennie, Lecturer in American Politics and Lobbying Strategies, University of Melbourne

On Wednesday in the US, thousands of students left their classrooms in a national day of action designed to force political change on gun crime. Following the recent shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, this walkout is part of an extraordinary national movement. Young people across the US are doing what countless others have tried and...

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Don't shoot the messenger when confronted with inconvenient ideas

  • Written by: Russell Blackford, Conjoint Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Newcastle
Don't shoot the messenger when confronted with inconvenient ideasAl Gore's climate change advocacy was rejected out of hand by his political opponents.Shutterstock

This is the fourth article in a series in which philosophers discuss the greatest moral challenge of our time, and how we should address it. Read part one here, part two here and part three here.

In August 2017, James Damore, a Google software...

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An STI epidemic in young people does not signal sexual abuse

  • Written by: James Ward, Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases Research Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
An STI epidemic in young people does not signal sexual abuseIt isn't helpful to jump to conclusions about child sexual abuse.Raj Rabidas/Shutterstock

Over the past two weeks, a number of commentators have called for the removal of Aboriginal children with sexually transmissible infections (STIs) from their families. This has resulted from the wrongful conflating of rates of STI notifications with child...

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  2. Australia doesn't have too many universities. Here's why
  3. How picture boards were used as propaganda in the Vandemonian War
  4. Affordable housing policy failure still being fuelled by flawed analysis
  5. New cities? It's an idea worth thinking about for Australia
  6. Why duck shooting season still isn't on the endangered list
  7. What to do when the baby is born before you get to hospital
  8. To achieve more equity in the tech industry, we must reframe diversity
  9. Tributes pour in for Stephen Hawking, the famous theoretical physicist who died at age 76
  10. A timeline of Stephen Hawking's remarkable life
  11. The slippery grammar of spoken vs written English
  12. How do we feel about a 'big Australia'? That depends on the poll
  13. IPCC cities conference tackles gaps between science and climate action on the ground
  14. The Great War and Kings of War journey from the kill zone to the map room
  15. What the Royal Commission can do if the banks don't play ball on evidence
  16. We need to become global citizens to rebuild trust in our globalised world
  17. When we lose weight, where does it go?
  18. The US isn't a shining example for Australia when it comes to jobs
  19. The ASEAN-Australia Special Summit marks a step toward a deeper relationship
  20. Curious Kids: What causes windy weather?
  21. why is a green screen green?
  22. Our growing big cities need new centres of employment – here's Melbourne's chance
  23. Why virtual reality cannot match the real thing
  24. do student protests work? History tells us they can
  25. Politics podcast: the Batman byelection battleground
  26. Full response from a spokesperson for Steven Marshall for a FactCheck on electricity issues in South Australia
  27. would pokies reform in South Australia wipe out 'many' of 26,000 jobs?
  28. does South Australia have the 'highest energy prices' in the nation and 'the least reliable grid'?
  29. What we know about Novichok, the 'newby' nerve agents linked to Russia
  30. could Labor's tax changes make the system fairer or hurt investors?
  31. The off-topic Conversation #156
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  33. War with North Korea: from unthinkable to unavoidable?
  34. Looking for truth in the Facebook age? Seek out views you aren't going to 'like'
  35. Yes, kangaroos are endangered – but not the species you think
  36. should I let my kids drink juice?
  37. why you can hear gravitational waves when things collide in the universe
  38. The origins of Pama-Nyungan, Australia's largest family of Aboriginal languages
  39. More of us are drinking recycled sewage water than most people realise
  40. Rise in protest votes sounds warning bell for major parties
  41. Australia can't afford to forget smaller businesses when negotiating trade deals
  42. How protons can power our future energy needs
  43. Technology and regulation must work in concert to combat hate speech online
  44. Voice assistants will have to build trust before we're comfortable with them tracking us
  45. Why aren't birds pulled down by gravity while they're flying?
  46. The greatest moral challenge of our time? It's how we think about morality itself
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