Increase in PTSD among UK veterans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq – new research
Oct 09, 2018 13:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has increased among the UKs armed forces in the last ten years, our latest research shows. We have been following military service men and women since 2003 in one of the largest...
Study in Ethiopia links healthy soils to more nutritious cereals
Oct 09, 2018 13:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Large fields, predictable rainfall and favourable temperatures have meant that farmers in Arsi Negele, a town in southeastern Ethiopia, have benefited from good crop yields. Their production of wheat and maize, two of the...
Time and money -- the biggest hurdles to healthy eating
Oct 09, 2018 12:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Philippe Couillard, the freshly Quebec premier, made headlines during the election campaign when he suggested a family of three comprised of one adult and two adolescents could feed themselves for $75 a week. That...
Why people with dementia don't all behave the same
Oct 09, 2018 12:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Dementia is the is the leading cause of death among Australian women and the third most common cause of death among men. While dementia is not a normal part of ageing, the biggest risk factor for dementia is advancing...
International students on British drinking habits – 'people don't know when to stop'
Oct 04, 2018 16:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Of the 2.3m students starting courses at UK universities each autumn, well over 400,000 are international students from non-UK countries. The scale and importance of international students to the UK higher education...
How theatre training can boost your doctor's empathy
Oct 04, 2018 15:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
I teach improvisational theatre to health scientists and trainee doctors. When I tell people this, they are often confused because theatre and medicine appear to be separate fields. Medicine, however, is a performance....
Hazardous drinking: research finds that 40% of people over 50 drink too much
Oct 04, 2018 15:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Mention hazardous drinking and most of us imagine teenagers or students getting drunk, causing havoc and filling our emergency departments on a Friday night. But what if I told you that we should be just as worried...
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