How to cope with extreme heat days without racking up the aircon bills
Jan 29, 2020 06:14 am UTC| Health
Summer in Australia is getting hotter. Extreme heat events, with daytime temperatures over 35 degrees Celsius, are becoming more common and we are getting more of these days in a row. We all need to prepare ourselves,...
Jan 29, 2020 06:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
In Gwyneth Paltrows new Netflix series, The Goop Lab, Paltrow explores a variety of wellness management approaches, from energy healing to psychedelic psychotherapy. Goop has long been criticised for making...
Knowledge of safe contraception is patchy among young Nigerian students
Jan 28, 2020 08:58 am UTC| Health
Nearly half of pregnancies among adolescent girls in developing countries are unplanned. In Africa, about 46% of these pregnancies end in unsafe abortion. Deaths from abortion account for 10% of maternal deaths in...
29,000 cancers overdiagnosed in Australia in a single year
Jan 28, 2020 08:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Almost one in four cancers detected in men were overdiagnosed in 2012, according to our new research, published today in the Medical Journal of Australia. In the same year, we found that approximately one in five...
Obesity, second to smoking as the most preventable cause of US deaths, needs new approaches
Jan 28, 2020 08:38 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The opioid crisis and deaths related to e-cigarette use among teenagers have dominated news headlines recently. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 34 people had died as a result of...
Why it's unclear whether private programs for 'troubled teens' are working
Jan 28, 2020 08:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
I first became interested in what Ive learned is called the troubled teen industry more than 20 years ago, when my parents sent me away to a program they thought would help me finish high school. At that point I was...
What the latest coronavirus tells us about emerging new infections
Jan 28, 2020 08:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Viruses are quick studies. Theyre prolific at adapting to new environments and infecting new hosts. As a result they are able to jump the species divide from animals to humans as the new coronavirus in China is...
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 student Gaza protests: five things that have been missed
Will Solomon Islands’ new leader stay close to China?
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects