Revised DrinkWise posters use clumsy language to dampen alcohol warnings
Sep 02, 2018 22:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
DrinkWise Australia has withdrawn thousands of posters designed to inform women about the risks of drinking during pregnancy. DrinkWise which has previously drawn criticism for its alignment with the alcohol industry ...
Big Tobacco is consistently overstating black market in cigarettes – new findings
Aug 28, 2018 16:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Law
Whats the size of the black market in tobacco and who is behind it? These questions have dogged governments, public health advocates, researchers and the tobacco industry for years. The worlds biggest tobacco companies...
For some Catholics, it is demons that taunt priests with sexual desire
Aug 28, 2018 15:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
A Pennsylvania grand jury recently released a report on the systematic ways Catholic priests aided and abetted one another to sexually abuse children for 70 years. It reveals once again how the strict patriarchal...
Monkey Dust, Krokodil, Nyaope: why new drug concoctions keep appearing
Aug 28, 2018 15:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The globalisation brought about by the internet means that recreational drug use is now a worldwide issue. And for legislators, drug taking is a rapidly moving target. Over past decades, we have seen changes in how drugs...
Brazilian butt lifts are the deadliest of all aesthetic procedures – the risks explained
Aug 28, 2018 15:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The desire for a larger bottom is becoming more popular, with the number of so-called Brazilian butt lifts more than doubling in the last five years. However, a recent high-profile case involving a doctor in Miami who...
Don't blame women for leaving fields like engineering. Blame bad attitudes
Aug 28, 2018 15:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
There are reasons why feminists use the slogan the personal is political, especially when men make arguments using the age old idea that biology is destiny. Manglin Pillay, the CEO of the South African Institution of...
Teens who feel down may benefit from picking others up
Aug 28, 2018 15:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Think about the last time you helped someone out. Maybe you sent a supportive text to a stressed-out friend or gave directions to a lost stranger. How did it make you feel? If you said good, happy, or maybe even warm...
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’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects