How labels like 'addict' and 'junkie' mask class contempt for drug users
Feb 08, 2018 13:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Terms such as drug user, addict or the blatantly pejorative junkie, dope head or stoner, are loaded with moral bias. They suggest that people who consume psychoactive substances are mentally weak and dangerous when in...
New App Equipped With AI Could Help Treat Depression
Feb 01, 2018 05:00 am UTC| Technology Health
Depression is one of the most widely misunderstood psychological conditions in the modern world. A lot of people simply assume that its about people feeling said. Unfortunately, it goes a lot deeper than that since it can...
Five supplements that claim to speed up weight loss - and what the science says
Jan 30, 2018 13:26 pm UTC| Health
When you google weight loss the challenge to sort fact from fiction begins. These five supplements claim to speed up weight loss, but lets see what the evidence says. 1. Raspberry ketones Raspberry ketones, sold as...
How neoliberalism is damaging your mental health
Jan 30, 2018 12:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law Health
There is a widespread perception that mental ill health is on the rise in the West, in tandem with a prolonged decline in collective well-being. The idea that there are social and economic causes behind this perceived...
Why ignoring mental health needs of young Syrian refugees could harm us all
Jan 30, 2018 12:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
When a seven-year-old student in eastern Aleppo was asked at the peak of the bombardment campaign by the Assad regime in 2015 to draw a picture, he did not draw children playing, nor did he draw a blue sky or a smiling...
NYC Is Now Suing Big Pharma For Causing U.S. Opioid Crisis
Jan 27, 2018 09:04 am UTC| Science Health
Its no secret that the U.S. is now experiencing an Opioid crisis, with coverage of the issue even making international headlines. The fact that pharmaceutical companies dont appear to be too bothered by the harm that its...
New test can detect eight types of cancer in a drop of blood
Jan 22, 2018 13:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Most cancers are detected by a cell biopsy, where a sample of the cancerous tissue is examined under a microscope. However, researchers in the US have reported that they are a step closer to developing a cancer screening...
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