How your Christmas turkey arrives already stuffed – with antibiotics
Dec 17, 2016 06:14 am UTC| Health
You may consider the turkey to be a traditional part of your Christmas celebrations. But however you cook it, something about this festive bird is changing its getting fatter. The average turkey now weighs in at more...
Lack of education doubles the chance of heart attack and stroke
Dec 17, 2016 06:02 am UTC| Health
Leaving school early more than doubles your risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a new Australian study. The research, published in the International Journal for Equity in Health, found those with no education...
Can looking at art make for better doctors?
Dec 17, 2016 06:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
In 1984, artist Jon Cattapans sister Adriana died in a car accident. His painting, titled Sister, and some accompanying drawings, were a response to this tragedy. Sister depicts a grey-shrouded body lying on a bright red...
Why are young women without wrinkles using Botox?
Dec 17, 2016 03:00 am UTC| Health
The battle against wrinkles has lasted for centuries. Long before surgical facelifts, people ingested powders and potions, stretched their faces using thread and tape, and rubbed their skin with Crisco, acid and animal...
How to know when holiday drinking is hurting your brain
Dec 17, 2016 01:52 am UTC| Health
For many, the holidays are indeed the most wonderful time of the year. Families and friends come together and enjoy food, good cheer and, often, alcohol. Commercially speaking, alcohol and the holidays seem to be made...
Online 'Dallas Buyers Club' promises medications, fast
Dec 16, 2016 02:29 am UTC| Technology Health
The Social Medwork, a new website that sells patients medicines they cannot easily access in their own country, has been dubbed an online Dallas Buyers Club. In the movie, the character Ron Woodroof resorted to...
How HIV's evasion tactics could help fight the flu
Dec 14, 2016 00:13 am UTC| Health
One vaccine. Lifetime immunity. This is the goal for thousands of researchers tackling one of the worlds most evasive pathogens human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV has foiled both the immune system and vaccines....
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
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight