Air travel spreads infections globally, but health advice from inflight magazines can limit that
Jul 18, 2019 07:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Travel safe, travel far, travel wide, and travel often, says Nomadic Matt, the American who quit his job to travel the world, write about it and coach others to do the same. But theres a downside to all this travel,...
Six-packs and bulging biceps – how appearance pressures take their toll on men's mental health
Jul 14, 2019 13:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Over recent years, body dissatisfaction or shame about ones appearance has been on the rise in men. This isnt something just affecting young men either, its extensively reported across a range of age groups. And its...
Asbestos in schools: what you need to know
Jul 14, 2019 13:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The Department for Education referred nearly 700 schools in England to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) as they did not provide evidence that they were managing asbestos in line with regulatory requirements. Of the...
Selecting groceries ahead of time helps some shoppers make healthier choices
Jul 14, 2019 13:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
I often toss items into my grocery cart that I have vowed to never buy again. Maybe I cave into my 3-year-olds demands for sugary cereal and cookies. Or perhaps I fail to resist my own urge to snack on chocolate-covered...
The 2019 flu shot isn't perfect – but it's still our best defence against influenza
Jul 14, 2019 13:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Over recent months, reports of a horror flu season causing serious illness and death have dominated the headlines. The high number of cases has led some people to question the effectiveness of the flu vaccine, and...
How to exercise in the summer without heat exhaustion
Jul 14, 2019 13:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
With a kilometre to go, triathlete Sarah True was pulled from the 2019 Ironman European Championship in Frankfurt, Germany, due to heat exhaustion. She was in the lead by seven minutes after having swum, biked and run...
How did people clean their teeth in the olden days?
Jul 13, 2019 06:04 am UTC| Health
Dental hygiene has come a long way since the days of wine-soaked toothpicks and the urine mouthwash once thought to disinfect mouths and whiten teeth. Some of the earliest tooth-cleaning artifacts archaeologists have...
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
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