A new drug promises to lower risks of asthma attack
Apr 01, 2019 17:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
A recent study shows that a gamechanger drug called Fevipiprant promises to lower patients risks of suffering an asthma attack and being admitted to a hospital. This is the first time a drug reducing airway smooth...
Apr 01, 2019 17:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is currently looking to expand the list of medicines available over the counter that is, via a pharmacist without a prescription. If these changes get off the ground, we could...
How social media is helping Big Tobacco hook a new generation of smokers
Apr 01, 2019 17:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Big Tobacco is increasingly using social media to find new ways to hook young people on smoking, circumventing decades of laws restricting the marketing of traditional cigarettes to minors. In major cities around the...
Healthy, happy and tropical – world's fastest-growing cities demand our attention
Apr 01, 2019 17:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
What does it take to be a happy and healthy city? In any city, myriad factors go into the mix and of course we are not dealing with just one kind of city. But, due to the world history of colonisation, models are still...
An unexpected pathway to treating neurodegenerative diseases
Apr 01, 2019 17:24 pm UTC| Health
Scientific success stories can sometimes occur when therapies being studied for one disease can be used to treat another. In the case of the drug we have been studying in my lab, this is especially important because it...
Medicaid work requirements: Is there a path forward that could help the poor, not harm them?
Apr 01, 2019 17:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Law
Just days after the 9-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administrations defining accomplishments continues to dominate American politics. President Trump enthusiastically declared on March 26, 2019,...
The exercise conundrum: sometimes active people put on more weight than couch potatoes – here's why
Apr 01, 2019 17:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Governments are always telling us to eat less and exercise more to be healthier, but this presents an obvious problem. Being active is liable to make you hungrier, so theres a risk you end up eating extra to compensate,...
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
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
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