Explainer: why is it so hard to lose weight?

Dec 02, 2015 01:57 am UTC| Health

We are designed to seek food our drive to do so is essential to our survival and we have a complex system to control this. Recent research shows that following weight loss, levels of circulating hormones which affect our...

Junk food advertisers put profits before children’s health – and we let them

Dec 01, 2015 00:08 am UTC| Health

For the first time in history, Australian children could live shorter lives than their parents. The reason? High rates of excess weight and obesity. Despite mounting evidence that junk food marketing is a big part of...

Why Europe will let member states opt out of GM crops

Nov 30, 2015 16:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

In the US, farmers have been cultivating crops with genetically engineered traits since the 1990s and their use and consumption is widespread. Thats not the case in Europe. In fact, a directive passed by the European...

Want to do something good for your health? Try being generous

Nov 30, 2015 16:19 pm UTC| Life Health

Every day, we are confronted with choices about how to spend our money. Whether its thinking about picking up the tab at a group lunch or when a charity calls asking for a donation, we are faced with the decision to behave...

A court just made a landmark ruling for abortion rights in Northern Ireland

Nov 30, 2015 15:52 pm UTC| Health Law

Belfasts High Court has ruled that Northern Ireland can no longer withhold abortions from women who have been the victims of rape or incest, or whose pregnancies involve a fatal foetal abnormality. The judgement is...

Beijing Maintains Orange Alert For Heavy Smog

Nov 30, 2015 11:14 am UTC| Health

Beijing on Sunday issued an orange pollution alert and has maintained the alert today. Heavy smog has covered the capital and is likely to affect all activities in the region. The authorities are closing highways,...

What dictates how much pain you feel after injury?

Nov 30, 2015 05:01 am UTC| Health

A routine work day can quickly turn sour, as Michael, a mine manager, discovered in August. After securing a large boulder, he watched in dismay as one of the securing chains broke and 200kg of stone fell on his...