Why is it so hard for your doctor to apologize?
Oct 04, 2019 14:51 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Youve just undergone surgery. Somehow, a mistake was made. Perhaps the preparation was inadequate or perhaps there was miscommunication. The result is that you were harmed when you expected to be healed. Hurt, angry and...
The vegans are coming! What's fuelling the interest in plant-based eating?
Oct 04, 2019 14:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Between the rise of plant-based sausages and veggie burgers that bleed, vegan protesters at supermarkets, and Disney adding hundreds of vegan items to its theme park menus, veganism is in the news. Not to mention the woman...
How to talk to your teenagers about drugs
Oct 04, 2019 14:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The UK has seen a sharp increase in teenage drug use in the last few years: the NHS reports that 37% of 15-year-olds have used drugs, and that deaths resulting from drug use are at their highest since records began in...
3 questions about vodka, answered
Oct 04, 2019 14:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Towards the end of Ian Flemings spy novel Dr. No, James Bond orders a vodka dry martini Shaken and not stirred please. The novel was published in 1958, at the height of the Cold War. But four decades before the Berlin...
Cancer cure: Combination treatment for advanced melanoma shows promising results
Oct 02, 2019 09:50 am UTC| Health
The world is still waiting to see a complete cure for the various types of cancer. On the bright side, scientists have achieved major strides in developing much-improved treatment strategies to increase survival rates...
HIV cure: Identifying ‘kill switch’ to dormant virus reservoirs sparks hope
Oct 02, 2019 08:12 am UTC| Health
A recently published study sparks hope that the world is getting closer to developing a cure for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Scientists reported finding the kill switch to dormant reservoirs of the virus in a...
Low blood pressure could be a culprit in dementia, studies suggest
Oct 02, 2019 03:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Decline in brain function often occurs as people age. People often worry that declining brain function is an inevitable part of growing old and will lead to dementia, but it is not. Many people do not experience...
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
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