Why do people choose expensive branded drugs over cheap generics?
Dec 18, 2015 22:33 pm UTC| Health Law
The Australian federal court has accused Reckitt Benckiser of misleading consumers. The UK-based company has been marketing products in their Nurofen range for specific types of pain. The truth is, they all contain the...
Budget update brings deficit blowout and hits to health and aged care
Dec 15, 2015 08:14 am UTC| Health
Health, welfare compliance and aged care have been targeted for savings in a budget update that forecasts deficits bigger than forecast in May and pushes out further the return to surplus. In some 180 savings measures...
Indonesia's 'war on drugs' may bring health crisis
Dec 15, 2015 07:21 am UTC| Health
Indonesias war on drugs is jeopardising years of hard work by civil society and public health sector to provide harm-reduction interventions. These have successfully reduced rates of HIV prevalence and other blood-borne...
Health Check: will intermittent fasting diets help you lose weight?
Dec 14, 2015 17:57 pm UTC| Health
Intermittent fasting diets involve periods of fasting cycled with periods of feeding. Fasting involves a zero or reduced calorie intake from foods and drinks. Feeding can involve food and drink consumption under strict...
Don't believe the hype – your complementary medicines are unlikely to deliver
Dec 14, 2015 17:45 pm UTC| Health
We recently submitted a complaint about the promotion of Ease-a-Cold products, which claim to be clinically proven to shorten your cold. The complaint highlights a number of long-standing problems with the regulation of...
What a man eats can affect his sperm – and future generations
Dec 14, 2015 16:30 pm UTC| Health
A previously discredited evolutionary theory, called Lamarckism, is being revived thanks to a new understanding of heredity called epigenetic inheritance. In 1809, the French evolutionist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck put...
Drinking on the gay scene: why we need to take it more seriously
Dec 11, 2015 15:26 pm UTC| Health
Gay bars and clubs have been at the heart of LGBT culture in the modern era. But where chemsex has received much of the attention in recent months, voices within the LGBT community have also raised concerns about levels of...
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