The secondhand smoke you're breathing may have come from another state
Feb 13, 2020 00:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Scientists estimate that each year in the U.S., outdoor air pollution shortens the lives of about 100,000 people by one to two decades. As it turns out, much of this pollution originates not in a persons own...
1 in 5 kids start school with health or emotional difficulties that challenge their learning
Feb 13, 2020 00:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Teachers identify one in five children as having emerging health or developmental concerns when they start school. This might include a child being disruptive, having difficulties understanding the teachers instructions,...
Feb 09, 2020 23:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Nobody yet knows for sure the definitive origins of the newly recognized coronavirus now known as 2019-nCoV thats currently spreading across the globe as a human respiratory pathogen. Early reports indicate that the source...
False information fuels fear during disease outbreaks: there is an antidote
Feb 09, 2020 23:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
False allegations and rumours about the coronavirus outbreak have been running riot on social media and in some mainstream media. Misinformation is rampant and conspiracy theories have added to the confusion. Examples...
The story of the pharma giant and the African yam
Feb 09, 2020 23:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
It was a drug produced in Nottingham in the United Kingdom that led us on a journey to South Africa to visit muthi markets, archives, herbariums and nature reserves. We spoke with traders, healers, scholars and...
What Freud tells us about Chair Girl – and ourselves
Feb 09, 2020 23:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The case of Marcella Zoia or Chair Girl, as shes been dubbed by Toronto media has captured the attention of the city for a year now. Each time Zoia makes a court appearance, the news cycle fills with pictures and videos...
The coronavirus and Chinese social media: finger-pointing in the post-truth era
Feb 09, 2020 23:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
As public health authorities in China and the world fight the novel coronavirus, they face two major communication obstacles: the eroding trust in the media, and misinformation on social media. As cities, towns,...
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