Australia on track to fail on global salt targets, study shows
Media release
A new study released for World Salt Awareness Week shows that while many countries are taking action to drop the salt, Australia is falling behind.
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Meet Miranda Hendry, a Research Assistant at The George Institute from our Women’s Health Program.
Failing to see the wood for the trees may be preventing better cardiovascular outcomes
Media release
Researchers find a higher risk of CVD in lower educated and non-employed people, an overuse of medicines in people at lower levels of CVD risk and an underuse of medicines in people at higher risk.
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Aussies unaware of issues caused by scratchies, lotteries, and bingo
Media release
George Institute researchers asked just over 2000 Australians about gambling products and found that while most recognised pokies, casino games, and sports betting as harmful, very few called out scratch tickets, lotteries, and bingo, despite these being in the top ten most harmful gambling products.