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Medicine and Health Science
Video
Kylie Stephens talks to NITV about Indigenous sexual health education
1 June 2012

Respectful relationships, sexual health and feeling proud to be an Aboriginal teenager are some of the topics covered in a new DVD resource created by young people in North-East Victoria through The University of Melbourne’s Centre for Excellence in Rural Sexual Health (CERSH).

The DVD and YouTube clip, called Smart and Deadly, is a guide for professionals and organisations wishing to collaborate with Aboriginal communities to deliver sexual health promotion to rural Aboriginal young people.

Music and Performing Arts
Heavy metal music has negative impacts on youth
20 October 2011

Young people at risk of depression are more likely to listen habitually and repetitively to heavy metal music. University of Melbourne researcher Dr Katrina McFerran has found.

Medicine and Health Science
Sexting driven by peer pressure
30 September 2011

Both young men and women experience peer pressure to share sexual images via the new phenomenon of ‘sexting’, preliminary findings from a University of Melbourne study has found.

Solariums double skin cancer risk in young people
3 August 2010

Scientists have confirmed what has long been feared - young people who use solariums have almost double the risk of being diagnosed with skin cancer before the age of 40.