Perfectionists more likely to develop bulimia, new research

Nov 04, 2018 13:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Bulimia nervosa is a common and life-threatening eating disorder. About 275,000 Canadian girls and women will have bulimia at some point in their lives. They will eat large amounts of food, often secretly, and then prevent...

Cancer Cure Latest News & Update: Is Cancer Research Anywhere Near Eliminating the Dreaded Disease?

Nov 01, 2018 11:07 am UTC| Health

The question seems simple. With the significant advances in most areas of modern technology and health care, why has there yet to be any declared cure for cancer? When people talk about cancer research, the general...

Trust Me, I'm An Expert: Food fraud, the centuries-old problem that won't go away

Oct 31, 2018 13:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

What have you eaten today? And how much do you know about how it was produced, what was added to it along the way, and how it made its way to your plate? Even as most of us grow increasingly removed from actual food...

If we're to have another inquiry into mental health, it should look at why the others have been ignored

Oct 30, 2018 12:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has promised to hold a royal commission into mental health if Labor wins the November state election. Last weeks announcement comes a couple of weeks after the federal government asked the...

Waiting for better care: why Australia’s hospitals and health care is failing

Oct 30, 2018 12:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

This week were exploring nine different policy areas across Australias states, as detailed in Grattan Institutes State Orange Book 2018. Read the other articles in the series here. Australia has a good health system by...

We need answers to the thalidomide tragedy – to ensure drug safety today

Oct 28, 2018 13:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

In 2015, after decades of fruitless lobbying, Canadian survivors of thalidomide finally received compensation from the federal government. The drug was a supposedly mild sleeping pill, a wonder drug that helped pregnant...

No safe suntan, but research suggests there may be a way to reduce 'old leathery' look

Oct 28, 2018 13:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Getting a tan may not depend on how much sun people get, but rather when they get it. This is the finding from a new international research project. The study, published in Molecular Cell, found that sun exposure every...