How can doctors use technology to help them diagnose?
Oct 25, 2016 18:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology Health
In Japans first reported case of artificial intelligence saving someones life, an AI has succeeded where a team of skilled human doctors did not. A woman with a rare type of leukaemia was correctly diagnosed by the AI....
Women's alcohol consumption catching up to men: why this matters
Oct 25, 2016 18:10 pm UTC| Health
Women are catching up to men in rates of alcohol consumption and this has important implications for how we think about our community response to harmful alcohol use. Historically, men have been more likely to drink...
10 tips for eating locally and cutting the energy used to produce your food
Oct 25, 2016 17:48 pm UTC| Health
Being a locavore means choosing food that is grown locally, and is one way that you can help ensure there is more food to go around. To feed the predicted nine billion people in the world in 2050, the world will need to...
How do you get shingles and who should be vaccinated against it?
Oct 25, 2016 17:25 pm UTC| Health
From November 1, the shingles (herpes zoster) vaccine will be available for free to people aged 70 to 79 years. Shingles is a dreaded and common disease of the elderly; lets look at how and why you get it, and who should...
How an old antidepressant could provide the next brain cancer breakthrough
Oct 25, 2016 11:38 am UTC| Health
In 1998, I received an intriguing handwritten note. It came from David Wilkie, emeritus professor at University College London, and asked if I thought the antidepressant drug clomipramine could affect brain tumours. I had...
To keep older people active, pedestrian accessibility must improve
Oct 25, 2016 11:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
At the Habitat III conference in Quito, the foundation of the Federation Internationale de lAutomobile called for a children-first approach when designing the worlds roads with pedestrians in mind. But there is another...
What's the point of paracetamol?
Oct 25, 2016 02:32 am UTC| Health
Paracetamol has been around for over 50 years. Its safe and many guidelines recommend it as the go-to treatment. At least, thats the conventional view of the drug. Its a view so ingrained that its rarely questioned. The...
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