The diet paradox: why your subconscious makes you crave naughty foods
Jul 22, 2017 07:45 am UTC| Health
The UKs diet industry is thriving to say the least. More than half of British adults try to lose weight by controlling their calorie intake each year. Unfortunately, losing weight is not as easy as turning down a biscuit,...
Antidepressants and pregnancy: study didn't find they actually cause autism
Jul 20, 2017 17:03 pm UTC| Health
A new paper published today has reported a small increase in the number of children born with autism in mothers who were using antidepressant medication while pregnant. But the increase was small, and the study did not...
A new vaccine is promising to advance the frontier of eliminating malaria
Jul 19, 2017 11:15 am UTC| Health
More than 30 malaria vaccine candidates are at various stages of development. The RTS,S vaccine is at the most advanced stage. The World Health Organisation has recommended the introduction of the vaccine in Ghana,...
New Home Office drug strategy, same old rhetoric
Jul 18, 2017 13:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The Home Office has just published a new drug strategy. The last one was published by Theresa May (then home secretary) seven years ago. The world has changed a lot in that time not least for May and so have drugs and...
Why has healthcare become such a target for cyber-attackers?
Jul 18, 2017 13:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
More than 16m patient records were stolen from healthcare organisations in the US and related parties in 2016. That year, healthcare was the fifth most targeted industry when it came to cyber-attacks. And earlier this...
As academic hospitals lower mortality rates, should insurers reconsider excluding them?
Jul 17, 2017 01:19 am UTC| Health Economy
A comprehensive new study has found that major teaching hospitals in the United States outperformed non-teaching hospitals in the most important of all health care outcomes: reducing mortality rates. Using a traditional...
What to look for when choosing a good care home
Jul 14, 2017 13:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Although four out of five adult care homes in England evaluated in a recent report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) were found to provide good care, it is the shocking reports of resident abuse, medication errors,...
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