Posts by Team VIVA!

With the “festive season”, marked by Christmas, New Year’s Day and Boxing Day now well and truly behind us, Aussie alcohol businesses have since been lining their shelves in preparation for today’s Australia Day (January 26, 2016). However, in a damning report commissioned and published online by the Foundation of Alcohol Research and Education (FARE)…

According to a January 1, 2016 article published by The Australian online, Queensland police performed upwards of 33,000 roadside drug tests during 2015, which led to the subsequent arrests of more than 320 drugged drivers. Although the concept of “drugged driving” is commonly associated with the consumption of illicit drugs, health experts and Government authorities…

Results, drawn from a 25-yearlong study from the University of Alberta, Canada, ; the average person, upon reaching “middle age” becomes happier as they grow older. The study focused on a group of people as they aged. The study looked at participants aged between 18 and 43 years. Over 25 years, researchers asked the candidates…

Alcohol consumption has been linked to many things, including abusive texts, hangovers, slurred words, loss of vision and most importantly, violence. However, academics are vigorously questioning claims published in a 2015 scientific report, citing the link between alcohol and violence. In January, 2015, British Anthropologist, Anne Fox, and her research team published a report entitled, Understanding behaviour in…

VIVA! Principal, Kirsten Bruce and Managing Director, Paul Jans, are beginning to pack their bags in preparation for an exciting trip to GLOBALHealthPR’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), in Mumbai, India from February 17 – 19, 2016. GLOBALHealthPR, for which VIVA! Communications represents Australia exclusively, is the largest, independent partnership of health and science communication agencies,…