How sweat sensors could play a critical role in monitoring our health
Feb 02, 2022 09:24 am UTC| Health
Sweat is a biological fluid like blood, saliva and urine that contains metabolites, electrolytes, proteins and hormones. The levels of these vary depending on a persons health. Wearable sweat sensors have been developed...
COVID: WHO recommends two new treatments – here's how they work
Feb 02, 2022 09:15 am UTC| Health
Back in early 2020, if you got ill with COVID there were no proven treatments for doctors to give you it was one of the main things that made this disease so scary. Fast forward to 2021 and scientists have since uncovered...
Why do we bleed? A hematologist explains how the body prevents blood loss after injury
Feb 02, 2022 09:13 am UTC| Health
Ouch! I cried out, looking down at where my familys puppy, Hercules, had just bitten me. Two tiny dots of red started to bloom where he had sunk his canine teeth into my finger. Bad dog, I said to him. He looked up at...
There is much more to mindfulness than the popular media hype
Feb 02, 2022 09:10 am UTC| Health
Mindfulness is seemingly everywhere these days. A Google search I conducted in January 2022 for the term mindfulness resulted in almost 3 billion hits. The practice is now routinely offered in workplaces, schools,...
Three tips to help you stay motivated to keep exercising all year long
Feb 02, 2022 08:55 am UTC| Health
February. The month of shattered dreams and ambitions. The trainers are gathering dust and chocolate bars have replaced protein bars. The gusto with which we attacked our new year resolutions is a vague memory. If your...
Seizures can cause memory loss, and brain-mapping research suggests one reason why
Feb 02, 2022 08:54 am UTC| Health
Epilepsy is a disease marked by recurrent seizures, or sudden periods of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. One in 26 people in the U.S. will develop epilepsy at some point in their life....
How gut bacteria influence the immune system and COVID deaths
Feb 02, 2022 08:47 am UTC| Health
The number of people who have died with or from COVID has varied greatly around the world. Peru, the worlds worst affected country, has had 6,067 COVID deaths for every million inhabitants and 88,345 recorded cases per...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects