Sleep Awareness Week 2024: practical strategies for shift workers

Are getting enough quality shut eye as a shift worker? What works for you and what doesn’t? Is it time to try something new? Sleep Awareness Week runs 10-16 March and is a time to reemphasise the importance of sleep on your health and wellbeing. Sleep researcher, Alexandra Shriane, a former paramedic and shift worker, […]

Smoking rates fall as vaping triples, new data reveals

While less than 10% of Australians are smoking daily, the use of e-cigarettes tripled between 2019 and 2022–2023, survey results from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) have revealed. The National Drug Strategy Household Survey 2022–2023 examines information on more than 21,000 people in Australia aged 14 and over and their use of, and attitudes toward, […]