Math challenges? A school psychologist could help
Jul 22, 2019 13:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Statistically speaking, five to eight per cent of children meet the criteria for a mathematics learning disability. Kids who have challenges with math at a young age also tend to experience these challenges throughout...
Jul 22, 2019 13:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Australias biggest city is abuzz with news of yet another housing development declared unsafe for human habitation. This time it is apartments built on a toxic dump the local council fears was not properly cleaned...
All-night public transport hasn't reduced alcohol-related harm in Melbourne
Jul 22, 2019 13:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The Victorian government introduced 24-hour public transport on Friday and Saturday nights in Melbourne from January 1 2016. Services mostly run every hour from 1am to 5am on all metropolitan lines with some additional...
Media hype and increased testing: this year's flu numbers are high, but there's more to the story
Jul 22, 2019 13:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Over recent months, the news has been saturated with headlines claiming were experiencing a killer flu season. Researchers watching laboratory data are using the term flunami. Data suggests this is a serious year for...
Home birth may start babies off with health-promoting microbes
Jul 21, 2019 12:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
For all of human history, babies have been born where their mothers lived whether in a house, hut or cave. Only in the last century has birth moved out of the home and into the hospital. How has that changed the types of...
HIV in Kenya: high risk groups aren't getting the attention they need
Jul 21, 2019 11:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Efforts to manage the HIV epidemic in much of sub-Saharan Africa need to specifically target sections of the population that are most vulnerable to HIV infection. Two such key populations include men who have sex with men...
Heat stroke: A doctor offers tips to stay safe as temperatures soar
Jul 21, 2019 11:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
I easily remember laughing at Wile E. Coyote trying to catch the Road Runner while watching Saturday morning cartoons as a child. I can still see the Coyote walking slowly through the sweltering desert, sun high in the...
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’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects