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Editor's note
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Today we're launching a ten-part series on older people's health. We'll be exploring the changes and processes that occur in our body as we age, the conditions we're more likely to suffer from and what we can do to prevent them. First up, Bill Lukin looks at the aim of medicine for older people - and how modern medicine too often treats the failing body while ignoring a person's suffering.
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Alexandra Hansen
Section Editor, Health and Medicine
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Top story
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Modern medicine too often posits doctors as mechanics and people as machines needing to be fixed.
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Bill Lukin, The University of Queensland
A model that has the body at the centre and a reductionist view of disease fails to respond to the suffering of the person.
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Health + Medicine
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Lisa Hee, CQUniversity Australia
Cells and processes in our body have existed for longer and longer periods of time.
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Martin Paul Whitely, Murdoch University; Suzanne Robinson, Curtin University
New research has found the youngest children in West Australian primary school classes are twice as likely as their oldest classmates to receive medication for ADHD.
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Lisa Martin, University of the Sunshine Coast
Humans have three basic needs that drive motivation - without them our performance is likely to suffer.
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Politics + Society
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Joseph Camilleri, La Trobe University
Far from 'making America great again', Donald Trump's sloganeering will deepen mistrust of US motives and irreparably damage any prospect of co-existence, let alone a more co-operative world order.
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Tom Clark, Victoria University
The new president's inaugural speech emphasised protectionism, co-operation and, most emphatically, putting America first.
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Ahmad Rizky M. Umar, Universitas Gadjah Mada
Talks among ASEAN leaders are often limited to political and economic issues, pushing problems with deep social and cultural roots like the persecution of ethnic Rohingya to the margins.
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Krystian Seibert, Swinburne University of Technology; Ann O'Connell, University of Melbourne
Charities in Australia can be political. They can advocate and lobby to further their charitable purposes. But they can't be party-political.
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Business + Economy
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Joellen Riley, University of Sydney
Gig workers need to be aware of their contract terms and band together in order to maintain their working rights and pay.
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Gary Mortimer, Queensland University of Technology
Australian supermarkets businesses have relied on management talent from the UK but perhaps it's time to look elsewhere.
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Roy Green, University of Technology Sydney; Renu Agarwal, University of Technology Sydney
Since the 1990s productivity has been slowing in Australia and elsewhere. We aren't really sure why this is, but here are a couple of theories that could explain it.
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Environment + Energy
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David Lindenmayer, Australian National University
From fisheries to forestry, there's a pattern to collapsing ecosystems and industries. If we can predict them, maybe we can avoid the damage.
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David Hodgkinson, University of Western Australia
The social cost of carbon – which calculates the impact of carbon emissions – plays a key role in US climate policy.
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Arts + Culture
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Ari Mattes, University of Notre Dame Australia
From the Blade Runner reboot to Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot to a film about the reincarnated spirit of a dog ... here is our list of the movies to look forward to - or not.
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Science + Technology
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Greg Austin, UNSW Australia
The prospect of foreign hackers interfering with democracy is not just an American story. It could happen in Australia too, and we need to guard against it.
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Michael J. I. Brown, Monash University
A leading website that monitored predatory open access journals has closed. This will make it harder to keep tabs on this corrosive force within science.
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