Health Archives - CSIROscope

The wash-up on coronavirus and food

You can continue to eat fresh fruit, vegetables and salads. There is no evidence to suggest you can become infected from coronavirus from your food.

Let’s get quiz-ical: March science quiz questions

It's time to find out what you remember from the last month of science news and break the boredom in isolation.

Health

COVID-19: animating this deadly virus

We investigate the basic characteristics of viruses in our special animation. This includes SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease COVID-19.

Health

Superfood or supermyth? Researching current food trends

Going on social media means being bombarded with information about the latest superfood trend. But is it nutritionally sound? Turns out, not completely.

Health

Combatting Ebola through more than just outbreak response

Infectious diseases, such as Ebola, pose a great threat to health and biosecurity globally. Our scientist has some ideas on how to curb future outbreaks

Health

The link between climate change and disease

A new report has been released outlining the link between climate change and disease. Our directors of Health and Biosecurity and the Australian Animal Health Laboratory talk us through what it means for us in Australia.

Health

The Power of Protein

We tend to eat our protein in an uneven distribution across the day - mostly at dinner. We are also getting far too much protein from high energy, nutrient-poor discretionary foods. That's why we've got some recipes from our new Protein Plus Nutrition and Exercise Plan to help pack your plate with protein.

Health

Can you put the pro in protein? Take our quiz

We need a lot of protein in our diets to stay healthy, but how much do you actually know about it? Take our quiz to find out.

Manufacturing

Detecting the ‘drop dead’ drug—fentanyl

Fentanyl is 50–100 times more powerful than morphine, and it's fuelling a spike in overdose deaths in Australia. We've created a new way to detect this drug.

Health
Tech

Mobile app gets specialist advice to burns victims ASAP

We’ve teamed up with Fiona Stanley Hospital in WA to develop an app to support treatment for burns victims.

Health

Maintaining a healthy gut during weight loss

You’ve probably heard a lot about gut health recently, words like probiotics, gut bacteria and the microbiome are hitting the health headlines on a regular basis. But did you know that poor gut health has direct links with obesity?

Environment

Why naming all our mozzies is important for fighting disease

Only half of Australia’s approximately 400 different species of mosquitoes have been scientifically named and described. So how are scientists able to tell the unnamed species apart?

Health