Finding the causes of cancer is the first step to prevention
Feb 04, 2017 01:01 am UTC| Health
Big Tobacco is the poster child for how an industry can confuse the experts and the public on the dangers of its product. It delayed any smoking restrictions for decades by employing the subterfuge of demanding perfect...
Do vegetarians live longer? Probably, but not because they're vegetarian
Feb 03, 2017 16:43 pm UTC| Health
In the past few years, you may have noticed more and more people around you turning away from meat. At dinner parties or family barbecues, on your social media feed or in the news, vegetarianism and its more austere...
Many kids still don't report concussion symptoms. How can we change that?
Feb 03, 2017 16:07 pm UTC| Health
As Superbowl LI between the Atlanta Falcons and the New England Patriots approaches, football fans reflect on a season of intense competition, hard-fought battles and the tenacity of elite professional athletes. Among the...
We have a vaccine for six cancers; why are less than half of kids getting it?
Feb 03, 2017 15:59 pm UTC| Health
Early in our careers, few of us imagined a vaccine could one day prevent cancer. Now there is a vaccine that keeps the risk of developing six Human Papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers at bay, but adoption of it has been...
Melanoma: Taming a migratory menace
Feb 03, 2017 15:43 pm UTC| Health
The deadliest cancer of the skin is cutaneous melanoma. In 2017 over 160,000 Americans are expected to be diagnosed with melanoma, and over half will have invasive disease, or one that has gone beyond the skin and which...
ADHD: claims we're diagnosing immature behaviour make it worse for those affected
Feb 03, 2017 07:40 am UTC| Health
A recent study on prescriptions of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications for children in Western Australia found a similar trend to that already shown by data from the US and other...
Preventative medicine: the argument for and against
Feb 02, 2017 14:03 pm UTC| Health
Preventative medicine has long used drugs to prevent the onset of disease. Those with symptoms such as high blood sugar or pressure are often diagnosed with the pre-condition, such as prediabetes or prehypertension, if...
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