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Professor of Psychiatry Dan Siskind said a 36-week trial found semaglutide – the active component in weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy – was effective for people with schizophrenia who often experienced weight gain from taking anti-psychotic medication.

Instead, they buy it online from private medicinal cannabis clinics after a telehealth appointment with the clinic’s doctor. However, when we looked at these clinics’ websites, we found many examples of aggressive and misleading marketing.

Children who spend more time on screens are at a higher risk of developing future social and emotional problems, researchers have found. A comprehensive review of 132 longitudinal studies found higher screen use could exacerbate aggression, anxiety, attention difficulties and depression – in turn driving children to turn to screens as a coping mechanism.

People on Ozempic may have fewer heart attacks, strokes and addictions – but more nausea, vomiting and stomach pain

Exploring the social lives of image and performance enhancing drugs: An online ethnography of the Zyzz fandom of recreational bodybuilders is published in The International Journal of Drug Policy. Access to the paper is free until 7 December by copying this link into your browser: http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1TvDm3PEroDWd7 .

201 ways to say ‘fuck’: what 1.7 billion words of online text shows about how the world swears

The first cohort of 'home grown' doctors, trained exclusively in the Central Queensland and Wide Bay regions, has begun first-year studies through T he University of Queensland’s Rural Clinical School. The Central Queensland Wide Bay Regional Medical Pathway (RMP) is a partnership between UQ, Central Queensland University (CQ University) and the Central Queensland and Wide Bay Hospital and ...

The University of Queensland has been named among the world’s top universities in the Times Higher Education (THE) 2025 World Reputation Ranking, rising to 4th in Australia and 78th globally.

A high-antioxidant fruit created in Queensland could have the potential to boost human brain activity and scientists at The University of Queensland are keen to carry out further research.

A $13.7 million project to unlock digital health data on debilitating diseases could reduce hospitalisations, tackle complications and cut health costs.. The University of Queensland-led initiative has received $6 million from t he Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) National Critical Research Infrastructure scheme to put data to work finding solutions to better manage conditions such as ...