Drinking water study raises health concerns for New Zealanders
Jan 27, 2019 14:31 pm UTC| Health
Last year, a Danish study reported a link between nitrate in drinking water and the risk of developing colorectal (bowel) cancer. This finding could have important implications for New Zealanders. New Zealand has one of...
Jan 23, 2019 12:56 pm UTC| Health
MDMA (Methylenedioxymethamphetamine), commonly referred to as ecstasy, was manufactured as a potential pharmaceutical early last century. It had some limited use in the 1970s as a therapeutic aid in trauma treatment and in...
Australia will never be HIV-free if access to prevention requires a medicare card
Jan 23, 2019 12:56 pm UTC| Health Law
Australia aims to virtually eliminate HIV transmission by 2022, according to the health ministers new national HIV strategy. This ambitious goal has been made possible by biomedical HIV prevention, a new and highly...
How to feed a growing population healthy food without ruining the planet
Jan 20, 2019 09:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
If were serious about feeding the worlds growing population healthy food, and not ruining the planet, we need to get used to a new style of eating. This includes cutting our Western meat and sugar intakes by around 50%,...
Exercise can fast-track your workplace well-being - here's how
Jan 20, 2019 06:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Exercise has been found to reduce stress, increase positive mood, decrease anxiety and alleviate depression. But you may not know that the emotional well-being associated with exercise is also linked to key attributes that...
Gillette ad isn't anti-men, it's anti-toxic masculinity – and this should be welcomed
Jan 20, 2019 06:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Gillettes new ad The best men can be, which plays on the razor brands long-held motto, The best a man can get is powerful and emotional, a carefully-spun narrative about the role models young boys see in their daily...
Rationality: research shows we’re not as stupid as we have been led to believe
Jan 20, 2019 06:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Suppose you toss a coin and get four heads in a row what do you think will come up on the fifth toss? Many of us have a gut feeling that a tails is due. This feeling, called the Gamblers Fallacy, can be seen in action at...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects