The ABC's Ask the Doctor sends mixed messages about obesity
May 17, 2017 14:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment Health
From the popular dramas of A Country Practice and ER to news and documentaries, health and medical issues have been a longstanding favourite theme on television. Now health websites, online discussion forums, apps and...
How to rein in the widening disease definitions that label more healthy people as sick
May 16, 2017 17:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
In the early 1990s a small meeting of experts, part-funded by drug companies, decided on a new definition of the bone condition osteoporosis. Historically, the label was limited to people who had fractures, but with the...
Why bad moods are good for you: the surprising benefits of sadness
May 16, 2017 16:46 pm UTC| Health
Homo sapiens is a very moody species. Even though sadness and bad moods have always been part of the human experience, we now live in an age that ignores or devalues these feelings. In our culture, normal human emotions...
Speed and co-ordination are key to curbing the DRC's Ebola outbreak
May 16, 2017 16:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Three people have died and more than 125 are suspected to be infected with the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The outbreak comes less than two years after the most deadly spread of the disease in...
Fainting and the summer heat: Warmer days can make you swoon, so be prepared
May 16, 2017 16:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Over one million Americans faint every year, and countless more do worldwide. Fear, pain, the sight of blood or prolonged standing think the long lines of summer travel can trigger fainting. These triggers set off a...
Electrically stimulating your brain can boost memory – but here's one reason it doesn't always work
May 16, 2017 16:02 pm UTC| Health
The first time I heard that shooting electrical currents across your brain can boost learning, I thought it was a joke. But evidence is mounting. According to a handful of studies, transcranial direct current...
22q11.2 deletion: the most common syndrome you have never heard of
May 16, 2017 15:45 pm UTC| Health
You wouldnt be blamed for thinking that 22q11.2 was a postcode or password. My guess is you wouldnt have thought it was the most prevalent syndrome of its kind. So lets talk about 22q. Everyone has 23 pairs of...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects