Before pregnancy even starts, healthy weight in mums and dads lowers obesity risk in children
Feb 15, 2017 06:23 am UTC| Health
Children born to obese women have double the chance of being obese themselves by age two, compared to children born to women of a recommended body mass index (BMI). Childhood obesity is also strongly linked with obesity in...
Immunity During Pregnancy Determined By Baby’s Sex, Study States
Feb 14, 2017 05:34 am UTC| Science Health
The immune system of pregnant women fluctuate throughout the course of the nine months carrying the child or children, this is an established fact. However, the sex of the baby as the factor has always been more of...
Goosebumps, tears and tenderness: what it means to be moved
Feb 09, 2017 12:52 pm UTC| Health
Emotion embodies motion. When we experience emotions were are agitated and stirred, transported and animated. Motion is at the root of the word itself: emotion comes from the Latin, meaning to move out or away. Many...
Are over-the-counter painkillers a waste of money?
Feb 06, 2017 17:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Simple painkillers (such as aspirin, paracetamol and ibuprofen) are widely bought over the counter and prescribed by doctors. But the stark truth is that most of these medicines dont work very well. Professionals cant...
Ouch! The drugs don't work for back pain, but here's what does
Feb 06, 2017 08:18 am UTC| Health
Hows your back? About a quarter of Australias population experience a back pain episode at any point in time, and nearly all of us (around 85%) will have at least one lifetime experience with back pain. But treating it...
What is a balanced diet anyway?
Feb 06, 2017 07:35 am UTC| Health
I was recently asked: If my eating habits are half good and half bad, does that make my overall diet balanced? The short answer is No! So what is a balanced diet then? For a fast assessment take the Healthy...
Immunotherapy: Training the body to fight cancer
Feb 06, 2017 05:00 am UTC| Health
The human immune system is powerful and complex. It can identify and destroy invaders of nearly infinite variety, yet spare the more than 30 trillion cells of the healthy body. Unfortunately, the broken cells 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