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Evergreen context on health, distilled into calm, readable pulses.

Health information usually arrives as advice without the underlying reasoning — what a statistic means, how a treatment actually works, why one study outweighs another. Briflio's Health knowledge hub explains that reasoning directly, so you can evaluate health claims and coverage with a clearer sense of the evidence behind them, rather than taking either the claim or the caveat on faith.

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Strait of Hormuz crisis: how danger and uncertainty can affect the mental health of seafarers

Research links unsafe conditions, long hours and poor sleep with worse mental health at sea.

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Strait of Hormuz crisis: how danger and uncertainty can affect the mental health of seafarers

Weight-loss campaigns aimed at First Nations women look like drug marketing in disguise

Snakebites kill tens of thousands every year, could our new research change that?

Mozzies are causing Buruli ulcers in more parts of Australia. Here’s what you need to know

Rib contouring surgery promises a smaller waist. But here’s what this trend really tells us

Why health insurance cuts for the over-65s won’t swamp public hospitals after all

Can a messy person become a tidy person? Or are we doomed?

Does debriefing about a difficult birth stop it turning into trauma?

Feeling angry? Don’t blow off steam. Try these tips instead

Vaccines Train the Immune System Before the Real Infection Arrives

Can removing your fallopian tubes really reduce your risk of ovarian cancer?

Sleep Is Not One State but a Repeating Cycle

Your Gut Microbiome Is an Ecosystem, Not a Single Good-Bacteria Score

Antibiotic Resistance Is Evolution Happening in Real Time

Blood Pressure Is Two Numbers Because the Heart Works in Two Phases

Does ‘R U OK? Day’ actually improve people’s mental health?

I’m trying to lose weight. Will exercising make me hungrier and eat more?

Are petting zoos safe?

Thousands of Australians received infected blood, over decades. Now they’ll have their say

Professional gaming is brutal on the body – inside the growing field of treating esports injuries

Families waiting for news from Nepal and Tibet will feel both hope and despair – and this can change minute to minute

Three discoveries that transformed how we understand nutrition

How does the cancer drug Keytruda work? And how is it different to chemo?

Not eligible for NDIS, too old for Thriving Kids. What supports should these young people get?

Twins can have different parents. How is that possible? A fertility expert explains

Critics claim trans people ‘defy biology’. New research suggests otherwise

Here’s what you need to know about teens and sexual choking

The Northern Territory has just voted to legalise voluntary assisted dying. Here’s how it will work

New study reinforce the positive impacts of lifestyle changes on cognitive health and dementia risk

Confused about the NDIS changes? Here’s what’s coming, and what’s still being worked out

Extreme heat is taking a toll on firefighters as wildfires stretch crews to the limit

Here’s what to keep in mind before and after an aged care assessment

Vaping is better than patches or gums for quitting smoking – updated review

What happens to your body when you eat more pulses? Five effects you need to know

A new saliva test for endometriosis is in trials. What this and other new endo tests mean for you

Relentless heat and drought take a toll on herders’ physical and mental health, in Kenya and the US

From flames to haze, wildfire smoke transforms as it travels, and it can harm your health in different ways

Can you eat too much tinned tuna?

How well do COVID antivirals actually work? Not as well as we thought

How being ‘on-call’ for work can disrupt your sleep – even if the call never comes

Leaving abusive relationships can be harder for migrant women. Here’s what they need to feel safe

New therapies help people with schizophrenia – but access is woefully inadequate

Thriving Kids will start in October. But will the new support system be ready when families need it?

When an overloaded ED gets it wrong, who should be accountable?

One Nation wants to cut the tobacco tax. Would that curb the illicit cigarette market?

Severe flooding raises deadly overdose risk in rural Appalachia, study finds – and the harm lasts for years

Cannabis isn’t ‘safer’ in your 20s and 30s – it’s linked to an earlier onset of psychosis

Many youth athletes quietly struggle with eating disorders – Colorado mandates new training that could turn things around

Young men are ‘voicemaxxing’ to sound more attractive. But women aren’t impressed

Endocrine disruptors: How hormone-disrupting chemicals in everyday products can affect your thyroid and health

For Indigenous people, connection to Country can be a preventive health measure

Can vitamin C cure a cold? How a Nobel Prize winner convinced us it could

Is spraying perfume on your neck bad for your health?

Exclusive poll shows nearly half of respondents defecting from Victorian Labor. What do these voters care about?

Is bird flu infecting humans? How would we know?

With NDIS changes set to pass, here’s who bears the cost of making it ‘sustainable’

Worried your toddler isn’t getting enough iron? Here’s what parents need to know

Storms of dust and sand are another sign our climate is changing. Two experts explain

A new ADHD drug targets three brain chemicals instead of two. Here’s what that means

Trauma can trigger psychosis – and talk therapy can help treat both

Why Trump’s MMR vaccine order is the latest public health disaster, with effects set to last years

People with psychosocial disability from mental illness will lose out from tightened NDIS eligibility

View from The Hill: government shuts down telehealth-for-VAD bill, defying Labor conference

Today’s Mediterranean diet leans on olive oil, vegies and fish. But the ancients mainly ate bread

Vitamin K shots stop internal bleeding in newborns. So why are some parents refusing them?

What’s a doula? What do – and don’t – they do during childbirth?

The census will ask about your sexual orientation. What should you write?

Chronic pain is missing from America’s heat warnings

Should the shingles vaccine be free for all adults? We asked 5 experts

Dense breasts or breast cancer in the family? What screening changes mean for you

How drugs leach out of your sweat (and can spoil your sofa)

Behind the betel nut smile: the quiet epidemic of oral cancer in Papua New Guinea

Dry needling is different to acupuncture. So what’s involved? And is it effective?

Health insurance rebates may change for the over-65s. Our new study shows what to expect

Eating less protein may ‘slow’ ageing. But here’s why the evidence isn’t clear-cut

Pesticide exposure at work may increase motor neurone disease risk – new study

From home support to residential care – how to navigate the aged-care maze for ageing parents

There are new blood tests for Alzheimer’s. Should I have one?

Recurring risk: Like Zika, Oropouche virus can also affect the brains of unborn babies