Working from home since COVID-19? Cabin fever could be the next challenge
Jan 16, 2024 08:13 am UTC| Health
As Canada opened back up after the COVID-19 lockdowns, many businesses encouraged their workers to head back to the office. Yet, despite restrictions being lifted in Canada and around the world, teleworking as a regular...
Ultra-processed foods: here's what the evidence actually says about them
Jan 16, 2024 08:12 am UTC| Health
The perils of ultra-processed foods received widespread coverage in recent months thanks in no small part to the publication and promotion of TV presenter and doctor of virology Chris Van Tullekens book Ultra-Processed...
RSV, flu and COVID: demystifying the triple epidemic of respiratory viruses
Jan 16, 2024 07:50 am UTC| Health
Since 2022, a triple epidemic of respiratory viruses RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 has been disrupting our daily lives. In addition, the media constantly reminds us of how this is straining emergency departments. How...
Jan 15, 2024 03:07 am UTC| Health
Microplastics are turning up everywhere, from remote mountain tops to deep ocean trenches. They also are in many animals, including humans. The most common microplastics in the environment are microfibers plastic...
What newly digitised records reveal about the Tuskegee syphilis study
Jan 15, 2024 02:06 am UTC| Health
In 1972, a whistleblower revealed that the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) had withheld syphilis treatment from hundreds of Black men as part of a 40-year study observing the natural course of the disease. The...
Concerned about student mental health? How wellness is related to academic achievement
Jan 11, 2024 03:36 am UTC| Health
Supporting student mental health and well-being has become a priority for schools. This was the case even prior to the increased signs of child and youth mental health adversity in and after the pandemic. Supporting...
Why you shouldn’t let guilt motivate you to exercise
Jan 11, 2024 03:36 am UTC| Health
The hardest part of consistently exercising is finding the motivation to do it. But using the wrong type of motivation for your workouts could militate against you and could even have consequences for your mental...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight