Exercise changes the way our bodies work at a molecular level
Mar 08, 2017 05:21 am UTC| Health
Exercise is good for you, this we know. It helps build muscle, burn fat and make us all into happier, healthier people. But long before you start looking the way you want, there are other hidden, more immediate, molecular...
How 'cannibalism' by breast cancer cells promotes dormancy: A possible clue into cancer recurrence
Mar 08, 2017 05:02 am UTC| Health
Breast cancer death rates overall have steadily declined since 1989, leading to an increased number of survivors. But while breast cancer survivors are grateful their bodies show no trace of the disease, they still face...
Here's how citizen power can drive mental health reform
Mar 08, 2017 02:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Health Politics
Citizen panels and juries around the world are having their say about how health funding is prioritised and allocated. Its time this happened in Australia, particularly when it comes to deciding how best to carve up...
Pancreatic cancer wouldn't be so deadly if we could just diagnose it earlier
Mar 06, 2017 13:51 pm UTC| Health
Pancreatic cancer is extremely difficult to diagnose. The current prognosis for pancreatic cancer is so poor that a UK cancer charity has warned more than 11,000 people are expected to die from the cancer by 2026, and that...
Love meat too much to be vegetarian? Go 'flexitarian'
Mar 06, 2017 13:49 pm UTC| Health
A flexitarian is defined as one whose normally meatless diet occasionally includes meat or fish. The term, first coined in 1998, describes people who mostly, but dont always eat vegetarian foods. Whos a...
From travel bans to alternative facts: the dangerous descent into irrationality
Mar 06, 2017 13:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Much has been written about US President Donald Trumps proposed travel ban, which, when it was signed, prevented nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States an order that affected more the...
New ways to treat depression in teenagers
Mar 06, 2017 13:19 pm UTC| Health
Around one in 20 teenagers suffers from depression. Episodes can last for several months. Unfortunately, about 50% of teenagers who have a depressive episode are at risk of falling ill again, increasing the likelihood of...
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