Changes to lure young people into private health insurance won't slow increase in premiums
Oct 13, 2017 09:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Australians will be able to choose lower premiums for higher excess, and insurers required to more clearly categorise their policies, under the federal governments shake up of private health insurance announced...
Why Trump's executive order may compound the health insurance industry's problems
Oct 13, 2017 09:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Health Politics
President Donald Trump has issued the first of what promises to be a series of health insurance executive orders aimed at dismantling the Affordable Care Act. It instructs the government to essentially exempt small...
Evolutionary biology can help us understand how language works
Oct 10, 2017 13:49 pm UTC| Health
As a linguist I dread the question, what do you do?, because when I answer Im a linguist the inevitable follow-up question is: How many languages do you speak? That, of course, is not the point. While learning languages is...
What's behind the huge increase in breast cancer rates in China?
Oct 10, 2017 13:36 pm UTC| Health
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in China, according to the latest data from Chinas national cancer registry. An analysis of the data reveals that the cancer has increased at a rate of around 3.5% a year...
How to avoid war and conflict – with a little help from social psychology
Oct 08, 2017 10:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The posturing of US President Donald Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un give rise to a terrifying realisation: that we are moving closer to a nuclear war. The recognition that such a war could be our last raises the...
Dissociative identity disorder exists and is the result of childhood trauma
Oct 05, 2017 04:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Once known as multiple personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder remains one of the most intriguing but poorly understood mental illnesses. Research and clinical experience indicate people diagnosed with the...
How to improve the skills of tomorrow's doctors
Oct 05, 2017 03:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Imagine youre inside an ambulance racing to the emergency room with the lights and sirens blaring. You and your nine-year-old daughter were in a car accident; she is unconscious and bleeding. The paramedic has initiated an...
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
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects