Posts by Team VIVA!

Your daily ritual of indulging in a delicious brekkie muffin, a greasy lunchtime burger or cheap buffet dinner, may explain why you’re failing to get a good night’s sleep. New research conducted by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine on January 14, 2016, indicates a diet…

According to recent media reports, 2015 saw a spike in drug-induced harm at Australian music festivals, including 120 people treated for drug-related issues, and the passing of Sydney pharmacist, Sylvia Choi, 25 at Stereosonic. These events have served to fuel the debate on pill testing at music festivals. Pill testing, which indicates the content of…

As you slowly wake up on the train, your first instinct is to scroll through Instagram. Later, you find yourself traipsing through the city, checking your Facebook channel for updates. To finish the day, you flick through snapchat in bed. Enter the dawn of the ‘iHunch’ – a malady of the 21st century. The term…

The New Year is well underway and team VIVA! has hit the ground running in a bid to make 2016 yet another highly successful year. According to a recent survey of 1,000 Australians published in Body and Soul, 69 per cent of the respondents plan to make at least one New Year’s resolution, yet less…

Dubbed a “national emergency” by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) in August, 2015, codeine pain killer abuse and overdose continues to capture Australian news headlines. Last week, Australian hip-hop recording artist, Matt Colwell, aka “360” made headlines after releasing a rap video recorded in what appears to be a home studio, in which he explains…