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...
Women health-care volunteers have no upward mobility
Sep 30, 2018 22:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Women health-care volunteers in low-income countries such as Afghanistan, Nepal and Ethiopia play a vital role in the health-care system, yet they are undervalued and under trained. Many community health programs use...
How a new vaccine could save cattle herds -- and livelihoods
Sep 30, 2018 21:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
For 10,000 years, the bacterium Mycoplasma mycoides has infected goats, cows and other livestock, annihilating entire herds in days. In sub-Saharan Africa, the disease, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia CBPP or lung...
Healthcare is getting cheaper (unless you need a specialist, or a dentist)
Sep 28, 2018 08:53 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Public and private health expenditure amounted to 10.3% of gross domestic product in 2016-17, almost exactly the same percentage as in 2015-16, according to figures released today by the Australian Institute of Health and...
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