Sep 17, 2019 17:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Sept. 15, 2019 that he plans to pursue emergency regulations to quickly ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, making New York the second state to consider such a ban. Cuomos action...
There's a way for modern medicine to cure diseases even when the treatments aren't profitable
Sep 17, 2019 17:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Strides in medicine have contributed to a dramatic increase in life expectancy over the last century. Diseases like HIV and cervical cancer that were essentially death sentences as recently as 30 years ago can now be...
Using technology to support caregivers of older people with dementia
Sep 17, 2019 17:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
In June, the government of Canada released its long-awaited Dementia Strategy for Canada: Together We Aspire. As a family caregiving researcher for more than two decades and a former family caregiver to my Dad, who had...
Vaping: As an imaging scientist I fear the deadly impact on people’s lungs
Sep 16, 2019 10:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Vaping causes severe illness in otherwise healthy young adults and teenagers. It causes a life-threatening, life-shortening and sometimes deadly lung toxicity and injury with apparently irreversible damage that cannot be...
Drugs don't affect job seeking, so let's offer users help rather than take away their payments
Sep 10, 2019 20:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The Morrison government is having another shot at getting its proposal to drug test people on welfare through the Senate. Welfare, health and drug treatment experts have consistently opposed the proposal since it was...
Introvert? You may just be bad at recognising faces
Sep 10, 2019 20:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Although most of us can distinguish between and remember hundreds of different faces, some people are better at it than others. Super-recognisers can accurately identify faces even when they have only seen them briefly...
Does extra testosterone reduce your empathy?
Sep 10, 2019 20:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Cognitive empathy is the ability to recognise what another person is thinking or feeling, and one way it can be assessed in the lab is by using the reading the mind in the eyes test or eyes test, for short. This involves...
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