Delhi has been hit by a chikungunya epidemic – what is this disease?
Sep 20, 2016 06:10 am UTC| Health
Chikungunya is not a name that rolls easily off the tongue. It is a Swahili word meaning that which bends up. It describes the symptoms of this crippling arthritic disease, a disease which is currently gripping Delhi in...
If you love me, don’t feed me bacon
Sep 20, 2016 05:19 am UTC| Health
A friend reckons he has it good. His partner cooks a bacon-hash-brown-fry-up for breakfast every day. Are you sure? I said. Cause thats exactly what I would feed my partner if I wanted to bump him off! It is easy to...
Explainer: what are cataracts?
Sep 20, 2016 00:15 am UTC| Health
Nearly one-third of Australians aged 55 or over (or around 1.5 million people) have an untreated cataract. In 2013-14, there were 229,693 hospital admissions for cataract surgeries, making cataracts one of the most...
Banning kratom won't stop users or solve the drugs health crisis – so why continue this losing war?
Sep 15, 2016 15:52 pm UTC| Health
While we have seen a surge in new psychoactive substances in recent years, there has also been a rediscovery in the West of old herbal narcotics that have traditionally been used in different parts of the world. One...
Another cost of smoking: Sky-high insurance
Sep 12, 2016 02:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Although the Affordable Care Act (ACA) eliminated some of the barriers to obtaining health insurance coverage, not all Americans have access to affordable coverage. Low-income smokers in particular face challenges when...
One in five tattoo inks in Australia contain carcinogenic chemicals
Sep 09, 2016 11:20 am UTC| Health
A report this week from the Australian governments National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS) shows whats in the ink thats under the skin of more than 2 million Australians and about 100...
Drugs fatalities overtake car fatalities for the first time
Sep 09, 2016 10:49 am UTC| Health Life
Seven years ago, fatalities from opiates overtook fatalities due to road accidents in the US. Sadly, the same phenomenon is now playing out in England. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), show...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects