How to improve the NDIS for people who have an intellectual disability as well as a mental illness
Oct 04, 2018 14:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) began a full national rollout in July, 2016 with a fundamental principle to give those with a disability choice and control over their daily lives. Participants can use funds...
The elimination of smallpox showed how humans can work together to solve deadly global problems
Oct 04, 2018 14:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
If you were to watch a split-screen broadcast with global weather on one side and world politics on the other, you could easily conclude that we are doomed. Prodigious storms and killer heat waves announce the arrival...
An insurance discount for your fitness data is a bad deal in the long run
Oct 04, 2018 14:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Business
John Hancock Insurance, the US division of Canadian insurance company Manulife, came under scrutiny last month for offering lower premiums to individuals who agreed to share their fitness tracking data with the...
The power of a hug can help you cope with conflict
Oct 04, 2018 14:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Friends, children, romantic partners, family members many of us exchange hugs with others on a regular basis. New research from the United States, published today in PLOS, now shows hugs can help us to cope with conflict...
Can robots be ‘money doctors’?
Oct 02, 2018 06:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Financial advisors generally have prescriptive roles where they give practical advice to help their clients make decisions that are more rational. They help investors to build their portfolio based on their needs and risk...
Retraction of a journal article doesn't make its findings false
Oct 01, 2018 14:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The American Medical Association recently retracted six papers co-authored by food consumption and psychology researcher, Brian Wansink, in three of its journals. These studies include two showing that large bowl sizes...
Mapping the 100 trillion cells that make up your body
Sep 30, 2018 22:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
There are about 100 trillion cells that make up the human body. A new megascience endeavor will catalog and image each of the 200 or more types of cells from the 80 known organs and identify the genes that are active in...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
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