Smoking harms not just your physical health, but your mental health too
Nov 26, 2016 01:00 am UTC| Health
A middle-aged cigarette smoker who has smoked for decades is two to three times more likely to die early than someone similar who has never smoked. Tobacco smoking is well known to be a major risk factor for various...
Africa has an air pollution problem but lacks the data to tackle it
Nov 26, 2016 00:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently launched BreatheLife, a campaign to make people more aware about the fact that air pollution which it calls the invisible killer is a major health and climate...
What can obesity control learn from tobacco control's success?
Nov 25, 2016 10:26 am UTC| Health
Tobacco control is revered in contemporary public health as the poster child for chronic disease control. In nations like Australia, which have taken tobacco control seriously, we have seen virtually continual falls in...
Why kids younger than 12 don't need OTC cough and cold remedies
Nov 25, 2016 10:20 am UTC| Health
The common cold season is here, and if you have children, you will likely feel their suffering from these annoying upper respiratory tract viral infections. Children experience more colds,, about six to 10 annually, than...
Poor And Unpopular People Are Less Healthy, Primate Study Shows
Nov 25, 2016 09:04 am UTC| Health
In most societies in the world, being at top of the social ladder is something that a majority of people aspire to. They want to be popular, wealthy, living the good life, and not have to face the difficulties that their...
Explainer: what is exposure therapy and how can it treat social anxiety?
Nov 25, 2016 01:16 am UTC| Health
Most of us experience a level of social anxiety at some point in our lives. We worry about what people think of us, about being excluded, about being judged or humiliated. Social anxiety is characterised by an excessive...
Opioid Vaccine Created, Helps Overcome Addiction And Lowers Death Rate
Nov 24, 2016 13:02 pm UTC| Health
Cases of overdoses caused by over-consumption of opioids like the drug OxyContin have been increasing of late. This sparked concern among health organizations about the growing addiction rates on substances that are deemed...
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