Alphabet's new plan to track 10,000 people could take wearables to the next level
May 05, 2017 08:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Health
Verily the life sciences research arm of Google parent company Alphabet wants to track the health of 10,000 people. On April 19, the group announced that it was starting to recruit for Project Baseline, in partnership...
New drugs on the PBS: what they do and why we need them
May 05, 2017 02:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
This week, the government announced the latest additions, amendments, and deletions from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS): the program through which essential medicines are subsidised for Australian patients. The...
How pre-existing conditions became front and center in health care vote
May 05, 2017 01:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Pre-existing conditions became the focus of debate on the American Health Care Act, which was narrowly passed 217-213 by the House of Representatives May 4, 2017. The debate led to bitter disagreement, as Republicans...
More and more restaurants list calories on their menus. What about salt?
May 05, 2017 01:43 am UTC| Health
Which do you think has more salt: a Panera Bread wild blueberry scone or a large order of Burger King french fries? Starting May 5, restaurants and food stores across the U.S. were going to be required to include...
How did health insurance get so complicated? Here are some answers
May 05, 2017 01:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
With the passage of the Republicans health care act, the House of Representatives seems to be saying that coming up with a plan to insure Americans really wasnt all that hard after all. It just took a bit more of a subsidy...
Food as medicine: how what you eat shapes the health of your lungs
May 05, 2017 01:19 am UTC| Health
We all understand that eating too much of the wrong foods those that are high in energy and low in nutrients, such as fast foods, processed foods and takeaways causes weight gain and can lead to obesity. These foods are...
Could taking vitamins in huge doses produce a health miracle after all?
May 05, 2017 00:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
For decades, some people have embraced the idea that there might be major health benefits from taking vitamins in quantities well beyond the recommended daily requirement. The concept was very popular for a while in the...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight