Dilated cardiomyopathy – the disease that killed George Michael explained

Mar 13, 2017 07:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

An Oxfordshire coroner recently announced that George Michael died of natural causes. The post-mortem examination revealed that the singer suffered from a number of health problems, including dilated...

Organic farming matters - just not in the way you think

Mar 13, 2017 07:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

Is organic agriculture the solution to our global food system challenges? Thats been the premise and promise of the organic movement since its origins in the 1920s: farming thats healthy, ecological, and socially...

The House health plan: Here's how the numbers don't add up for the poor

Mar 13, 2017 05:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Health

House Republicans introduced the American Health Care Act (AHCA), their proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA, also known as Obamacare). At a press conference, Speaker Paul Ryan called this bill an...

Dr Google probably isn't the worst place to get your health advice

Mar 13, 2017 05:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Health

Who is your preferred source for health advice? Gwyneth Paltrow? Pete Evans? Or qualified medical practitioners like Dr Oz? I hate to break it to you, but if youre getting advice from any of these people, youre quite...

Why we're wasting money on medical tests and how behavioural insights can help

Mar 13, 2017 04:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Health Economy

In 2013 and 2014, more than 314,000 CT scans of the lower back were ordered in Australia, most of which showed no abnormalities. In routine cases of low back pain, X-rays and CT scans provide no meaningful information to...

Why is it still so hard for patients in need to get medicinal cannabis?

Mar 10, 2017 03:24 am UTC| Health Law

This week the federal government granted its first license for an Australian company to grow and harvest medical marijuana. This follows Australias amending of the Narcotic Drugs Act 1967 to legalise the production and...

How hepatitis became a hidden epidemic in Africa

Mar 10, 2017 03:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

The five strains of viral hepatitis (A, B, C, D and E) affect 400 million people around the world. Hepatitis B and C are the most deadly; these infections are blood borne, transmitted mainly through unsafe medical...