How does the drug abemaciclib treat breast cancer?
May 08, 2024 11:03 am UTC| Health Business
The anti-cancer drug abemaciclib (also known as Vernezio) has this month been added to the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) to treat certain types of breast cancer. This significantly reduces the cost of...
Cycling: The untapped potential for improving our health (and the climate)
May 08, 2024 11:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
When the French government recently announced a plan to cut state spending by 10 billion euros, the budget for ecology, development and sustainable mobility was first on the chopping block, with cuts totalling 2.2 billion...
Future pandemics will have the same human causes as ancient outbreaks
May 08, 2024 10:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The last pandemic was bad, but COVID-19 is only one of many infectious diseases that emerged since the turn of this century. Since 2000, the world has experienced 15 novel Ebola epidemics, the global spread of a...
AstraZeneca Pulls Out Its COVID-19 Vaccine From Global Markets After Court Docs Shows Side Effects
May 08, 2024 10:00 am UTC| Business Health
AstraZeneca plc, a British-Swedish pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, is reportedly withdrawing its COVID-19 vaccine worldwide. The company made the decision months after admitting in court there is a rare side...
May 03, 2024 00:02 am UTC| Health
Most young adult men in Australia reject traditional ideas of masculinity that endorse aggression, stoicism and homophobia. Nonetheless, the ongoing influence of those ideas continues to harm men and the people around...
May 03, 2024 00:01 am UTC| Health
People have a pretty intuitive sense of what is healthy standing is better than sitting, exercise is great for overall health and getting good sleep is imperative. However, if exercise in the evening may disrupt our...
Healthy teeth are wondrous and priceless – a dentist explains why and how best to protect them
May 03, 2024 00:00 am UTC| Health
At an auction in England in 2011, one of John Lennons teeth sold for just over US$31,000. How much are your teeth worth? Teeth are amazing little miracles. They light up our smiles, we use them to speak and we chew...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects