Many household products contain antimicrobial chemicals banned from soaps by the FDA
Jan 19, 2017 12:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business Health
This year marks 20 years since Hasbro was fined for false advertising, claiming their Playskool toys laden with the antimicrobial chemical triclosan would keep kids healthier. It is also the year when soap manufacturers...
Why don't we know how many people die in our hospitals?
Jan 19, 2017 12:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
About this time last year, Australias National Health Performance Authority (NHPA) decided not to release data on death rates across Australias hospitals. This is the type of scandal we should be concerned about, rather...
Is 2017 the year to ditch the term 'innovation'?
Jan 19, 2017 12:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Business
With the appointment of Arthur Sinodinos as minister for industry, innovation and science in the cabinet reshuffle, Australia can look forward to more government promotion of innovation and entrepreneurialism. Yesterday...
Physical health ignored in people with mental illness
Jan 19, 2017 12:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Australians with serious mental illness are living on average for 10-32 years less than the rest of the population, mainly due to preventable and treatable diseases like diabetes. No wonder, these early, preventable deaths...
Printing more money isn't the answer to all economic ills
Jan 19, 2017 12:34 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Economists did not predict the financial crisis of 2007, nor did we predict that advent of secular stagnation that has followed. Those events have shaken the economic and political world. Our theories need work. Maybe a...
Bank of Canada on hold, further easing remains a possibility
Jan 19, 2017 12:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
The Bank of Canada (BoC) held its key interest rate steady at 0.5 percent on Wednesday, but made it clear that further easing remains a possibility amid heightened uncertainty about U.S. trade policies. BoC said the...
FxWirePro: Five glitches that hinder prospects of WTI prices in 2017
Jan 19, 2017 12:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Commentary
The recent struggle in continuation of WTI crude price upward movements still indicate that market consensus remains sceptical of the delivery of cuts by OPEC following their agreement last November. Rapid reductions to...
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