What it’s really like to live with dementia
May 21, 2017 13:30 pm UTC| Health
More than 225,000 people develop dementia every year thats roughly one person every three minute. At the moment, 850,000 people in the UK are living with dementia. This figure is set to rise to two million by...
Africa must reboot its health systems to cope with non-communicable diseases
May 21, 2017 13:23 pm UTC| Health
When it comes to killer diseases in Africa many people think of infectious diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, or even Ebola. But the reality is that diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease known as...
Arms Early Impressions Favorable, Nintendo Switch Motion Control Seems Good
May 18, 2017 05:33 am UTC| Health Science
When it was announced that Nintendo was going to be released a fighting game with motion controls called Arms, many were concerned that the response wouldnt be up to par. Based on early impressions, however, both the game...
Scientific Proof That Vegans Are Right, Going Meatless Will Save The World
May 18, 2017 03:51 am UTC| Health Science
In developed communities, particularly in the US, Vegans have earned unfortunate reputations for being a little annoying. However, new scientific research suggests that they may actually have the right standpoint on the...
The ABC's Ask the Doctor sends mixed messages about obesity
May 17, 2017 14:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment Health
From the popular dramas of A Country Practice and ER to news and documentaries, health and medical issues have been a longstanding favourite theme on television. Now health websites, online discussion forums, apps and...
How to rein in the widening disease definitions that label more healthy people as sick
May 16, 2017 17:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
In the early 1990s a small meeting of experts, part-funded by drug companies, decided on a new definition of the bone condition osteoporosis. Historically, the label was limited to people who had fractures, but with the...
Why bad moods are good for you: the surprising benefits of sadness
May 16, 2017 16:46 pm UTC| Health
Homo sapiens is a very moody species. Even though sadness and bad moods have always been part of the human experience, we now live in an age that ignores or devalues these feelings. In our culture, normal human emotions...
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