The fourth pillar: how we're arming the immune system to help fight cancer
Jan 07, 2016 01:07 am UTC| Health
The past 40 years have seen a significant improvement in cancer survival. In the 1970s, only one cancer patient in three made it through the first five years after diagnosis. The corresponding figure today is around...
Psychodynamic therapy – there's more to it than lying on a couch talking about your childhood
Jan 06, 2016 14:45 pm UTC| Health
Some people think psychodynamic psychotherapy is mumbo jumbo. The therapy, which grew out of the Freudian school of psychoanalysis, is often portrayed as elitist, expensive, old-fashioned and ineffective. Cognitive...
Affordable Care Act's push to consolidate health care to curb costs may backfire
Jan 06, 2016 14:36 pm UTC| Health Law
In the United States, physicians practice medicine in a variety of settings, ranging from small solo practices to large, multispecialty group practices consisting of hundreds or even thousands of practitioners. The...
Why isn't learning about public health a larger part of becoming a doctor?
Jan 06, 2016 14:35 pm UTC| Health
Chronic conditions, such as Type II diabetes and hypertension, account for seven in 10 deaths in the United States each year. And by some estimates, public health factors, such as the physical environment we live in,...
Vested interest the safest bet as online gambling review's release looms
Jan 05, 2016 23:20 pm UTC| Health
Former NSW premier Barry OFarrell handed his review of online gambling to the federal government late last year. The government says it will publicly release the report and its response together. Under the Interactive...
Why now is the best time to go on a diet, or the science of post-holiday weight loss
Jan 04, 2016 23:42 pm UTC| Health
If you or someone you care about are embarking on post-holiday weight loss, understanding the bodys physiological responses to excess kilojoule intake could give you the edge for a successful New Years...
Jan 04, 2016 23:30 pm UTC| Health
Early in the New Year is the traditional time for setting ambitious goals for better health, fitness and, often, a slimmer body. This resolve commonly reflects guilt stemming from the dissipation of the preceding festive...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US election: why it’s not the protesters’ votes that the Democrats should worry about
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects