What parents and teachers should know about non-verbal learning disability
Mar 24, 2016 00:10 am UTC| Life Health
When my daughter was in Year 10 at a private girls school, I got the call that every parent dreads a summons to the deputys office. My polite 15-year-old girl had no behavioural problems, but she couldnt keep up with...
How games can hook students with short attention spans
Mar 23, 2016 17:00 pm UTC| Health Life
Modern human beings have a shorter attention span than goldfish: ours is, on average, below eight seconds while the little fish can focus for nine seconds. These decreasing attention levels are driven by peoples...
The fight against TB shifts to fixing the immune system, not the bacteria
Mar 23, 2016 16:58 pm UTC| Health
Tuberculosis (TB) has managed to remain a major global health problem, despite 100 years of research and more than 50 years of treatment being available. It still claims up to 1.5 million lives each year. Although there...
Memory loss: it's not all amnesia
Mar 23, 2016 16:45 pm UTC| Health
Short-term memory, long-term memory, amnesia, dementia, Alzheimers people often use these terms incorrectly. The reason is partly because memory is one of the most complex mental abilities. It involves experiencing the...
Why taking vitamin D pills could help the fight against TB and HIV
Mar 23, 2016 16:11 pm UTC| Health
Clinical trials have shown that adding vitamin D supplements to the antibiotic treatment regimes for TB patients improves their chances of recovering from the disease. The supplement reduces inflammation in the body much...
Illusion or reality? Does SMS messaging really help the medicine go down?
Mar 23, 2016 15:47 pm UTC| Health Technology
Mobile health solutions or mHealth encompasses all of the technology and software that combined with mainly smartphones, provide individuals to measure, record, monitor, analyse and report the state of their health. The...
Text message medication reminders can save the lives of those with chronic illness
Mar 23, 2016 02:41 am UTC| Health
If you are diagnosed with a chronic disease, chances are youll have to manage it for the rest of your life. This means changing your lifestyle and taking medications as directed. Many find this challenging. In fact,...
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
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Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight