Surgeons and the opioid crisis: We need prescription guidelines
Nov 22, 2017 02:38 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Of all the possible ways of alleviating the opioid crisis, one has so far garnered far less attention than it deserves: prescription guidelines for surgeons. Surgeons are the third-biggest prescribers of opioids, often...
The public's knowledge of anatomy is sketchy – here's why it matters
Nov 08, 2017 16:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
British people dont seem to know their armpit from their elbow. Our latest study found that only 15% of the participants could locate their adrenal glands, and only 20% knew where their spleen and gallbladder...
Counselling doesn't work in the long term
Nov 08, 2017 15:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Person-centred counselling is one of the most popular treatments for mental health problems. Often just shortened to counselling, the approach focuses on how patients view themselves in the here and now, rather than how a...
3 things I learned from delivering medical aid to a remote part of Puerto Rico
Nov 07, 2017 06:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
I belong to a group called Doctors for Puerto Rico. We have been dispatching medicine and small teams of medical staff to the island, in coordination with local health authorities since two-and-a-half weeks after...
The long, strange history of dieting fads
Nov 07, 2017 06:02 am UTC| Health
Of all the parasites that affect humanity I do not know of, nor can I imagine, any more distressing than that of Obesity. So started William Bantings Letter on Corpulence, likely the first diet book ever published....
Three proven psychological treatments for young people that need to be funded
Nov 03, 2017 07:44 am UTC| Health
From the first of November Australians living in rural and remote areas will be eligible to receive Medicare rebates for psychological treatments delivered in part via video conferencing. This is a step in the right...
Replacing pharmacists with robots isn't the answer to better productivity
Oct 25, 2017 07:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Reforming pharmacy services and the role of pharmacists is one of the recommendations made in a five-year review of the nations productivity, released yesterday. The Productivity Commissions report, Shifting the Dial,...
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