Health Check: what causes chilblains and how can I prevent them?
Jul 09, 2018 07:46 am UTC| Health
While some of us love the winter chill, this winter others will notice itchy or tender red lumps on their fingers and toes. These small bumps are called chilblains (also known as pernio) and they occur with exposure to...
AIDS/HIV Cure Candidate Reaches Next Stage of Human Trials; Scientists Are Optimistic
Jul 09, 2018 01:24 am UTC| Health
As one of the worlds leading killer diseases, AIDS, along with its accompanying infectious microorganism, HIV, has proven to be extremely difficult to cure. However, a recent development in one of the AIDS/HIV cure tests...
Scientists Focus on Cell Metabolism in New Cancer Cure Research
Jul 09, 2018 01:14 am UTC| Health
Cancer is currently one of the worlds leading causes of death in terms of diseases. One of the reasons why its many variations are so difficult to cure is the adaptability of cancer cells. In order to address the problem...
What Big Pharma pays your doctor
Jul 05, 2018 13:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Members of Innovative Medicines Canada (IMC), the lobby group for the large pharmaceutical companies, recently released their voluntary reports of payments to health-care professionals and health-care...
FDA Invited Google and Facebook to a Summit to Discuss Tackling the Opioid Crisis
Jun 28, 2018 02:16 am UTC| Technology Health
The opioid crisis has reached a seemingly never-ending crescendo in the U.S., with more and more Americans dying of overdoses and related illnesses as a result. In an effort to curb these incidents, the Food and Drug...
Most people don't benefit from vaccination, but we still need it to prevent infections
Jun 09, 2018 01:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
A recent article in The Conversation questioned whether we should all get flu vaccinations, given 99 people would have to go through vaccination for one case of flu to be prevented. But this position ignores the purpose...
Paramedics need more support to deal with daily trauma
Jun 06, 2018 05:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Among all emergency service workers, paramedics have the highest rate of PTSD, with an estimated prevalence of 14.6%. This compares to 7.3% among firefighters and 4.7% for police. While all emergency service personnel...
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