Online 'Dallas Buyers Club' promises medications, fast

Dec 16, 2016 02:29 am UTC| Technology Health

The Social Medwork, a new website that sells patients medicines they cannot easily access in their own country, has been dubbed an online Dallas Buyers Club. In the movie, the character Ron Woodroof resorted to...

How HIV's evasion tactics could help fight the flu

Dec 14, 2016 00:13 am UTC| Health

One vaccine. Lifetime immunity. This is the goal for thousands of researchers tackling one of the worlds most evasive pathogens human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV has foiled both the immune system and vaccines....

Comic explainer: how memory works

Dec 12, 2016 19:36 pm UTC| Health

We recall thousands of events and procedures every day, but what is memory? In this comic explainer, The Florey Institutes Dr Jee Hyun Kim explains how memory works, why we recall some things more easily than others and...

What makes it so hard to quit drugs?

Dec 12, 2016 11:05 am UTC| Health

Most people who use alcohol and other drugs do so infrequently and never become dependent (or addicted as its sometimes called). On average about 10% of people who use alcohol or other drugs are dependent. The rate is...

Why cutting meat from your diet could be a revolutionary act

Dec 12, 2016 04:45 am UTC| Health

Controversy erupted at the University of Cape Town in 2016 when some academics suggested that only meat-free meals should be served on parts of the campus. The debates and opposition were couched in arguments around ethics...

Who's listening? The ethical and legal issues of developing a health app

Dec 10, 2016 10:00 am UTC| Technology Health Law

From large companies to tiny startups, many people are working on creating apps to monitor and improve our health. The technical skill needed is widely recognised and developers are becoming more aware of the need to...

New evidence gives supporters of chiropractic a headache

Dec 10, 2016 02:40 am UTC| Health

A paper was published and much discussed online recently which demonstrates all the problems that I and other critics have with the way research is done and interpreted in the world of chiropractic. The study looked at the...