Cycle, walk, drive or train? Weighing up the healthiest (and safest) ways to get around the city
Aug 27, 2018 15:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
There are many ways to get around a city. You can drive a car or ride a motorcycle. In many cities you have the option of public transport. And of course if you live close enough to where you are heading you can get around...
Health Check: how long are you contagious with gastro?
Aug 27, 2018 15:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Theres no way youd want to go to work when youve got the telltale signs of gastro: nausea, abdominal cramps, vomiting and diarrhoea. But what about when youre feeling a bit better? When is it safe to be around colleagues,...
With Monsanto, Bayer will need more Aspirin
Aug 23, 2018 23:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Monsanto, now a division of Bayer, has been ordered to pay a whopping US$289 million to a single American person, a former gardener, who developed cancer, allegedly through the use of their products. Dewayne Johnson...
Want cannabis stores banned in your town? Read this first
Aug 23, 2018 23:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
With Ontario Premier Doug Ford handing the provinces municipalities the right to prohibit retail cannabis stores in their communities, he has displayed a populist penchant for municipal autonomy. But prohibiting...
Opioid epidemic – the global spread explained
Aug 21, 2018 17:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The US has been in the grips of an opioid epidemic since the 1990s, with massive rises in the use and misuse of opioids such as morphine and codeine. There has also been a parallel rise in the number of opioid-related...
Genetically modified mosquitoes may be best weapon for curbing disease transmission
Aug 21, 2018 16:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Mosquitoes are some of the most deadly creatures on the planet. They carry viruses, bacteria and parasites, which they transmit through bites, infecting some 700 million people and killing more than 1 million each...
Three reasons the US is not ready for the next pandemic
Aug 21, 2018 16:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
One hundred years after the Great Influenza pandemic of 1918, global health leadership stands at a crossroads. The United States continues to expand its policy of isolationism at a time when international cooperation in...
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