How big data is being mobilised in the fight against leukaemia
Mar 18, 2017 06:32 am UTC| Technology Health
Healthy cell function relies on well orchestrated gene activity. Via a fantastically complex network of interactions, around 30,000 genes cooperate to maintain this delicate balance in each of the 37.2 trillion cells in...
Can we trust Big Tobacco to promote public health?
Mar 14, 2017 05:16 am UTC| Health Politics
Theres a new catchcry in public health: people working in tobacco control should join with Big Tobacco to promote safer tobacco products. It runs like this: before starting work each morning, tobacco company employees...
Does gluten prevent type 2 diabetes? Probably not
Mar 14, 2017 05:14 am UTC| Health
A recent analysis of a massive study observing the effect of food on the health of nearly 200,000 American health professionals suggested eating more gluten was associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes. But is it...
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...
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
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects