Uncertainty in blood supply chains creating challenges for industry
Jan 09, 2017 06:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
When we talk about supply chains, we may conjure up images of manufacturing plants, warehouses, trucks and shipping docks. There is another, truly unique supply chain for a product vitally important to health care and...
Is it safe to microwave your food?
Jan 09, 2017 05:17 am UTC| Health
Today every kitchen would seem under-equipped without a microwave, with its efficient ability to cook, defrost and reheat a variety of different foods. The handy appliance uses microwave radiation to do so. This is a type...
Slum health is not urban health: why we must distinguish between the two
Jan 08, 2017 03:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
We live in an urban century. Already more than 50% of the global population lives in urban areas. The United Nations estimates that by 2030 five billion of the worlds population of eight billion will be urban. Most of the...
Expainer: how diabetic foot disease can lead to amputations and even death
Jan 08, 2017 02:36 am UTC| Health
People with diabetes are prone to foot disease, which can lead to amputations and even death. Australia has the second-highest rate of lower-limb amputations in the developed world with the rate having risen by 30% over...
Taking up running? Here's what you need to know to make it to February
Jan 07, 2017 01:56 am UTC| Health
If the statistics are correct, many millions of new runners in the UK and US have laced up for the first time in the last few days. If you are one of these, then, as Ive written elsewhere, you are well on your way to being...
Mediterranean diet may protect your brain in old age, new finding suggests
Jan 07, 2017 01:38 am UTC| Health
Amid the contention about diets and detoxes, sugar and fats, there is at least general agreement that a Mediterranean diet fruit, vegetables, olive oil, grains, fish is a good thing. Now, a new study based on brain...
Why is it so hard to close the racial health gap in the US?
Jan 06, 2017 05:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The racial health gap in the United States is well-documented. The gap starts with the infant mortality rate (11.1 blacks vs. 5.1 whites per 1,000) and extends to almost any health domain. Compared to whites, blacks live...
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’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects