Are we streaming into political participation through a personalized, on-demand TV diet?
Oct 31, 2016 02:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Health
Media and scholarly reports have linked the binge-watching of streaming television to personal health problems. The effects of heavy use of platforms such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime have been reported to include...
'Healthy’ fast food chains not living up to their claims
Oct 28, 2016 07:25 am UTC| Health
Each month, 11.5 million Australians consume fast food. Alongside traditional burger, fried chicken and pizza chains, new chains are positioning themselves as healthier alternatives to the typical, energy-, saturated fat-,...
Three reasons the US doesn't have universal health coverage
Oct 26, 2016 14:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Amidst the partisan rancor and the unusual tilt toward questions on civility during the second and third presidential debates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump drew the attention of health experts when they articulated...
Britain's NHS is chronically underfunded, but great value for money ... for now
Oct 26, 2016 09:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Health
Margaret Thatcher rightly said that you can only have the services you can afford. But does Britain afford as much to health as other Western nations? The answer is a resounding no and here is the evidence. Using WHO,...
New estimate suggests a quarter of the world's population has latent tuberculosis
Oct 25, 2016 18:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
In rich countries, tuberculosis is sometimes thought of as a thing of the past, the disease that claimed Keats, Poe, Chopin. But globally, TB is today the number one infectious killer, causing an estimated 1.8m deaths in...
Alcoholism research: A virus could manipulate neurons to reduce the desire to drink
Oct 25, 2016 18:34 pm UTC| Health
About 17 million adults and more than 850,000 adolescents had some problems with alcohol in the United States in 2012. Long-term alcohol misuse could harm your liver, stomach, cardiovascular system and bones, as well as...
Why requiring low-nicotine cigarettes is still ill-advised
Oct 25, 2016 18:28 pm UTC| Health
Global policymakers will soon consider a policy of requiring that only reduced-nicotine cigarettes can be manufactured or sold. This may sound good, but as someone who has studied tobacco for decades, I believe it is...
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