Feb 24, 2020 07:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
In 2018, the Victorian Ombudsman, Deborah Glass, delivered a report about the saddest case she had ever seen. A 39-year-old woman with a developmental disorder had been locked in her prison cell for up to 23 hours a day...
Some infant formula milks contain more sugar than soda drinks – new research
Feb 22, 2020 00:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Some formula milks have double the sugar per serving than a glass of soda. That was the key finding of our global investigation into the sugar content of infant formula and follow-on milks. But perhaps more shocking is the...
What scientists are doing to develop a vaccine for the new coronavirus
Feb 22, 2020 00:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
With an increasing number of confirmed cases in China and 24 other countries, the COVID-19 epidemic caused by the novel coronavirus (now known as SARS-CoV-2) looks concerning to many. As of Feb. 19, the latest numbers...
Brain temperature is difficult to measure. Here's how a new infrared technique can help
Feb 22, 2020 00:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Brain temperature is implicated in many common conditions including stroke, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, and headaches. Changes in brain temperature can indicate there is a disease developing,...
Cancer Cure: Scientist reportedly close to finding the cure to the feared Big C
Feb 21, 2020 09:22 am UTC| Health
Cancer is an illness that everyone fears, and this is because it is hard and expensive to treat. For decades, many people already died from it, and it is considered a disease with low survival since, in most cases,...
Young people dropping private health hurts insurers most, not public hospitals
Feb 19, 2020 01:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Young Australians are abandoning private health insurance in droves. And the overall decline in the percentage of the population with private coverage is continuing. New data for the three months to the end of 2019,...
Natural supplements can be dangerously contaminated, or not even have the specified ingredients
Feb 18, 2020 01:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
More than two-thirds of Americans take dietary supplements. The vast majority of consumers 84% are confident the products are safe and effective. They should not be so trusting. Im a professor of pharmacy practice...
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’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects