Jul 24, 2020 09:14 am UTC| Health Science
Exposure to COVID-19 is not the only risk people should be careful about during a pandemic. More than 70 hand sanitizer brands were found to contain a potentially toxic ingredient, per the latest update from the United...
Neurostimulation may herald a new treatment for depression
Jul 22, 2020 12:22 pm UTC| Health
Depression is a growing problem in Canada and elsewhere, and one of the most important public health issues today, says the World Health Organization (WHO). The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing containment measures have...
Jul 22, 2020 05:53 am UTC| Science Health
There has yet to be a cure for COVID-19, and doctors and scientists are doubling down on efforts to develop a cure or a vaccine that could put an end to the pandemic and save millions of lives. Pharmacy company Novartis...
Is psychiatry shrinking what's considered normal?
Jul 21, 2020 14:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Psychiatric classifications catalogue the many forms of mental ill-health. They define what counts as a disorder and who counts as disordered, drawing the boundary between psychological normality and abnormality. In the...
Do poor Americans drink more soda than the rich?
Jul 21, 2020 14:29 pm UTC| Health
Many countries such as the U.K. and Mexico and a handful of U.S. cities such as Philadelphia and San Francisco have imposed soda taxes in an effort to fight rising obesity. Lots of research shows a link between drinking...
How COVID-19 threatens efforts to contain HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Jul 21, 2020 14:02 pm UTC| Health
When the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread rapidly across the globe, scientists expressed concern that people living with HIV would be particularly severely affected. This was because those with compromised immune systems...
COVID-19 promotes innovative HIV service delivery in Cape Town
Jul 21, 2020 14:02 pm UTC| Health
South Africa is home to the worlds largest epidemic of HIV, a virus that attacks a persons immune system, making one more susceptible to other infections. Sustained treatment with effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) can...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight