Experimental brain technology can rewind Alzheimer's disease
Sep 21, 2017 14:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology Health
Alzheimers disease is considered a global challenge of the century. Alzheimers disease is a thief. It comes and takes away the most precious memories with which people identify themselves. It is a very clever thief. People...
Even when it's sitting in storage, coal threatens human health
Sep 14, 2017 01:20 am UTC| Health Nature Economy
President Trump and his appointees have pledged to end what they call the war on coal policies designed to reduce the health and environmental impacts from producing and burning coal, such as toxic air pollution and mine...
Does marijuana affect your sleep?
Sep 11, 2017 14:33 pm UTC| Health
If you speak to someone who has suffered from insomnia at all as an adult, chances are good that person has either tried using marijuana, or cannabis, for sleep or has thought about it. This is reflected in the many...
We need to close legal loopholes to ensure everyone is safe when going under anaesthesia
Sep 11, 2017 08:14 am UTC| Health Law
A young woman tragically died recently after a cosmetic operation carried out at a beauty clinic. Manslaughter charges have been brought against the practitioner, who allegedly has qualifications obtained overseas but was...
From diarrhoea to heart damage, ultra endurance sports put a huge strain on the body
Aug 29, 2017 14:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
From The Race Across America, a 3,000-mile 12-day cycle demanding more than 20 hours per day in the saddle, to the Iditarod Trail Invitational, where participants run, bike, sled, or ski their way across 1,000 miles of...
HIV is still taboo in the DRC: chronicles from Kinshasa
Aug 29, 2017 14:00 pm UTC| Health
In 2016 I conducted in-depth interviews with patients at a 42-bed AIDS unit run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Centre Hospitalier Kabinda in Kinshasa, as well as caregivers and health staff. My research,...
Expansion of cashless welfare card shows shock tactics speak louder than evidence
Aug 28, 2017 15:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The federal government last week passed legislation to expand the trial of the cashless welfare card to other areas of Australia. The controversial policy quarantines 80% of welfare payments to Indigenous Australians...
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