Children with arthritis lack vitamin D
Nov 24, 2018 18:18 pm UTC| Health
In an analysis of global research, we recently found that children with the most frequent type of arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), have abnormally low vitamin D blood levels. We also found that those living...
Move more, sit less – great advice, but how can we make time for exercise?
Nov 14, 2018 12:09 pm UTC| Health
Its that time again. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services just released a new edition of the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. That sound you hear is Americans collectively sighing. Lets be honest:...
Neuroscientists identify a surprising low-tech fix to the problem of sleep-deprived teens
Nov 14, 2018 12:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Healthy sleep leads to healthy brains. Neuroscientists have gotten that message out. But parents, doctors and educators alike have struggled to identify what to do to improve sleep. Some have called for delaying school...
Four ways children say their well-being can be improved
Nov 14, 2018 12:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Good emotional health as a child lays the foundation for good life satisfaction in adulthood. However, in the UK children and young peoples happiness with their life is now at its lowest since 2010. Our research team,...
Hospital discharges to ‘no fixed address’ – here's a much better way
Nov 14, 2018 11:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Why treat people and send them back to the conditions that made them sick? Michael Marmot, The Health Gap, 2015 Homelessness is one of the most intractable and complex problems facing cities around the globe, says my...
Why natural depression therapies are better than pills
Nov 14, 2018 11:45 am UTC| Health
Winter is upon us. And with it comes the annual worsening of depressive symptoms. Sadly, in the United States, suicide continues to claim more lives than firearms, and suicide rates are increasing in nearly all states. The...
Drugs in bugs: 69 pharmaceuticals found in invertebrates living in Melbourne's streams
Nov 08, 2018 17:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Pharmaceuticals from wastewater are making their way into aquatic invertebrates and spiders living in and next to Melbournes creeks, according to our study published today in Nature Communications. We found...
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
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects