By Hannah Dahlen, Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
Hazel Keedle, Associate Professor of Midwifery, Western Sydney University
Kingsley Emwinyore Agho, Professor of Biostatistics and Global Health, Western Sydney University
Most women give birth in public hospitals, seeing whichever midwife or doctor is rostered on. But research shows seeing the same person reduces a number of risks.
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By Judy Ingham, Newsletter Producer, The Conversation
Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au.
Monday March 9
No more talc powder
“Apart from J&J not using talc anymore, it’s been at least two years since I’ve been able to buy any talcum powder. Some I learnt to use in the Army. We were issued with a particularly foul smelling product, called ‘Foot and Body Powder’,…
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By Brodie Ramin, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Near-misses, when accidents are narrowly avoided, aren’t false alarms. They’re the most honest feedback a system gives: the future, whispering in the present.
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By Roxana Suehring, Assistant Professor in Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Toronto Metropolitan University
Patricia Hania, Assistant Professor, Law & Business Department, Toronto Metropolitan University
The Arctic has been in the news a lot lately. Between the increased geopolitical interest in Greenland, claims over sovereignty, resource exploitation and the devastating impacts of climate change, the region has become a sentinel for global change.
But away from these headlines, a quieter crisis is unfolding that threatens Canada’s role in global environmental science, law and policy: the…
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By Meghan McCue, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University
Exercise can be a powerful tool to improve symptoms of anxiety and depression. The amino acid tryptophan may be part of the reason why.
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By Megan Shipman, Behavioural Neuroscientist and Fellow at the Cascade Institute, Royal Roads University
Zachary Pierce-Messick, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
With the internet and its widespread accessibility, many of us have front-row seats to widespread suffering and death across the globe for the first time in history, even when we are not directly affected.
We’re living in what scholars describe as a “polycrisis”…
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By Geoffrey Wood, Professor, Co-Director, Institute for Comparative Cancer Investigation, University of Guelph
A new study isolated DNA from the tumours of 500 cats across 13 different tumour types and mapped the sequence of 1,000 genes often found mutated in human cancers.
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By Oliver Kiptoo Kirui, Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Chibuzo Henrietta Nwagboso, Research Analyst, CGIAR
Countries in west and central Africa are facing a food crisis with multiple causes. Estimates in late December 2025 suggested that 41.8 million people were already in crisis or worse in October-December 2025. The number was expected to rise…
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
One of the Victorian polls has Labor ahead on primary votes, while the other says it’s the Liberals in the lead. In NSW, Labor is out in front.
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By John Calabrese, Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute, American University
Washington has long worked with Kurdish groups in the Middle East. But without sufficient support, encouraging Iranian Kurds into an uprising now could be dangerous.
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