Measles: should vaccinations should be compulsory?
Apr 01, 2019 17:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Following a measles outbreak in Rockland County in New York State, authorities there have declared a state of emergency, with unvaccinated children barred from public spaces, raising important questions about the...
How DNA ancestry testing can change our ideas of who we are
Apr 01, 2019 17:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Have you ever wondered who you are or where you come from? I think its a fundamental human desire to want to know this. One way were seeing this curiosity play out is in the rise of the at-home DNA ancestry business....
Neuroscience proves Nietzsche right: some people are wired to be more spontaneous than others
Mar 25, 2019 13:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Why cant you just relax into it? is a question many of us have asked in frustration with ourselves or others be it on the dance floor, the sporting field or in rather more private circumstances. The task typically...
This is what postnatal depression really feels like
Mar 25, 2019 13:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Motherhood can be a source of joy, but it can also pose difficulties and challenges particularly, in the postnatal period. It is a time when some mothers emotional and physical endurance is pushed to the limit. About...
Does most of your paycheck go to rent? That may be hurting your health
Mar 21, 2019 13:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
New data on health across the U.S. shows that high housing costs are harming Americans health and that some communities are affected more than others. The 2019 County Health Rankings, an annual collaborative report...
Having one mental health disorder increases your risks of getting another
Mar 21, 2019 13:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
New studies reveal that most psychiatric illnesses are related to one another. Tracing these connections, like the mapping of a river system, promises to help define the main cause of these disorders and the drugs that...
Tick, tock: The countdown to peak tick season is here
Mar 21, 2019 13:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature Health
With spring comes glorious sunshine, warmer weather and ticks. Ticks and some insect pests can carry bacteria, viruses and parasites that may cause disease in humans. One in particular, the blacklegged deer tick Ixodes...
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