It's time to rethink what the medical profession considers a 'rare disease'
Feb 28, 2019 03:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
International Rare Disease Day is upon us. People around the world spend Feb. 28 raising awareness about the impact that diseases with low prevalence have on patients and their families. The day also marks the passing...
Can sitting less decrease your risk of heart disease?
Feb 26, 2019 15:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Too much sitting has long been criticized for contributing to premature mortality, Type 2 diabetes, and a host of other illnesses. In a new study of 5,638 women, we looked at how sedentary behavior was related to future...
How environmental health workers can help climate change mitigation
Feb 26, 2019 14:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
All the evidence tells us that the worlds changing climate will affect more than the environment. It will have serious consequences for peoples health too. Southern Africa is in the eye of the climate change storm. In...
Burden of trauma and PTSD in young British people revealed – new research
Feb 26, 2019 14:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
For most people, the terms trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) lead to thoughts of veterans haunted by battlefield atrocities. Few realise that children and adolescents can experience trauma and develop PTSD,...
Cancer survivors urgently need funded rehabilitation care
Feb 26, 2019 14:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
There are now more than 17 million cancer survivors in North America and this number is expected to increase to close to 30 million by 2040. This is without doubt a good news story, reflecting an impressive 27 per cent...
Health check: will eating nuts make you gain weight?
Feb 19, 2019 17:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The Australian Dietary Guidelines recommend we eat 30g of nuts a small handful each day. But many of us know nuts are high in calories and fat. So should we be eating nuts or will they make us gain weight? In...
Feb 19, 2019 16:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The term smiling depression appearing happy to others while internally suffering depressive symptoms has become increasingly popular. Articles on the topic have crept up in the popular literature, and the number of...
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