Leave the patchwork to the quilts: The case for pharmacare
Aug 26, 2019 04:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
On August 15, 2019, more than 1,200 academics, including me, with expertise in health care signed a letter to the leaders of Canadas federal political parties. The letter called on them to commit to a national pharmacare...
How many people have eating disorders? We don't really know, and that's a worry
Aug 19, 2019 01:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Last week, federal health minister Greg Hunt announced that more than 60,000 Australians will be asked about their mental health and well-being as part of the Intergenerational Health and Mental Health Study. The mental...
Supermarkets put junk food on special twice as often as healthy food, and that's a problem
Aug 16, 2019 06:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Half-price chips, two for one chocolates, buy one get one free soft drinks: Australian supermarkets make it very easy for us to fill our trolleys with junk food. Add in the bonus of an Ooshie or a Little Shop...
The fascinating history of boredom
Aug 16, 2019 06:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Im bored is a statement many parents dread hearing during the summer holidays. Should parents scramble to fill the unstructured time of summer for their kids so they dont complain of nothing to do (or worse, get into...
Being left-handed doesn't mean you are right-brained — so what does it mean?
Aug 15, 2019 18:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
There have been plenty of claims about what being left-handed means, and whether it changes the type of person someone is but the truth is something of an enigma. Myths about handedness appear year after year, but...
Memory and attention difficulties are often part of a normal life
Aug 15, 2019 17:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
From young adults to people in their 60s, everyday functioning in todays world can place high demands on our attention and memory skills. Memory lapses such as forgetting an appointment, losing our keys, forgetting a...
Rethinking the approach to fighting Alzheimer’s disease
Aug 15, 2019 17:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The idea of seeing a loved one decline and lose their ability to recall their most treasured memories is devastating. However, it is a fact of life for an increasing number of Canadians. A group of experts on population...
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