Your brain has 'landmarks' that drive neural traffic and help you make hard decisions
Sep 20, 2019 03:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Brain regions exchange information by sending and receiving signals through a network of nerve connections. This exchange is crucial to all aspects of the brains functioning, including how we experience the world, form...
Researchers develop a promising new 'Trojan horse' treatment for multiple sclerosis
Sep 20, 2019 02:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
We often take our immune and nervous systems for granted. We assume that our immune system will protect us from diseases and when pathogens invade our body. Likewise, we assume that our nervous system will take information...
Sep 17, 2019 17:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science Health
More than 500 people have travelled into space to date and, while we know a little about how life without gravity affects our physical health, we know almost nothing about how it affects our minds. So, my colleagues and...
Sep 17, 2019 17:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Sept. 15, 2019 that he plans to pursue emergency regulations to quickly ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, making New York the second state to consider such a ban. Cuomos action...
There's a way for modern medicine to cure diseases even when the treatments aren't profitable
Sep 17, 2019 17:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Strides in medicine have contributed to a dramatic increase in life expectancy over the last century. Diseases like HIV and cervical cancer that were essentially death sentences as recently as 30 years ago can now be...
Using technology to support caregivers of older people with dementia
Sep 17, 2019 17:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
In June, the government of Canada released its long-awaited Dementia Strategy for Canada: Together We Aspire. As a family caregiving researcher for more than two decades and a former family caregiver to my Dad, who had...
Vaping: As an imaging scientist I fear the deadly impact on people’s lungs
Sep 16, 2019 10:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Vaping causes severe illness in otherwise healthy young adults and teenagers. It causes a life-threatening, life-shortening and sometimes deadly lung toxicity and injury with apparently irreversible damage that cannot be...
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