More and more restaurants list calories on their menus. What about salt?
May 05, 2017 01:43 am UTC| Health
Which do you think has more salt: a Panera Bread wild blueberry scone or a large order of Burger King french fries? Starting May 5, restaurants and food stores across the U.S. were going to be required to include...
How did health insurance get so complicated? Here are some answers
May 05, 2017 01:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
With the passage of the Republicans health care act, the House of Representatives seems to be saying that coming up with a plan to insure Americans really wasnt all that hard after all. It just took a bit more of a subsidy...
Food as medicine: how what you eat shapes the health of your lungs
May 05, 2017 01:19 am UTC| Health
We all understand that eating too much of the wrong foods those that are high in energy and low in nutrients, such as fast foods, processed foods and takeaways causes weight gain and can lead to obesity. These foods are...
Could taking vitamins in huge doses produce a health miracle after all?
May 05, 2017 00:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
For decades, some people have embraced the idea that there might be major health benefits from taking vitamins in quantities well beyond the recommended daily requirement. The concept was very popular for a while in the...
How funding to house mentally ill, homeless is a financial gain, not drain
May 04, 2017 12:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Politics Health
As Congress considers the federal budget proposal for fiscal year 2018 to reduce funding for services to poor and homeless Americans, programs with proven cost-effectiveness should not be on the chopping block. One such...
Saving lives in poor countries is about adapting to what's already working there
May 04, 2017 12:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Each year, 5.9 million children under the age of five die, mostly from preventable causes. Thats more than 16,000 children every day and more than 8,000 of these are deaths that could have been prevented with simple,...
How robots can help us embrace a more human view of disability
May 04, 2017 11:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Health
When dealing with the otherness of disability, the Victorians in their shame built huge out-of-sight asylums, and their legacy of them and us continues to this day. Two hundred years later, technologies offer us 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