Teenage sexting linked to increased sexual behaviour, drug use and poor mental health
Jun 19, 2019 02:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Health Life
You glance at your teens smartphone and see a text message light up the screen. Was that a sext you just saw? Questions flood your mind. Is this what kids are doing nowadays? Does this mean my child is having sex...
Explainer: what is fibromyalgia, the condition Lady Gaga lives with?
Jun 19, 2019 02:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
At least one in ten of us suffer some sort of troublesome, long-term (chronic) pain. But not all have fibromyalgia. People with fibromyalgia have chronic widespread pain including musculoskeletal aches, pain and...
Why the Australasian Health Star Rating needs major changes to make it work
Jun 19, 2019 02:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Unhealthy diets cause multiple physical and mental health problems. To help consumers make healthier choices, Australia and New Zealand introduced the voluntary Health Star Rating (HSR) system in 2014. The system is...
Meat is masculine: how food advertising perpetuates harmful gender stereotypes
Jun 19, 2019 02:22 am UTC| Health Business
The UK Advertising Standards Authority has introduced a new rule in its advertising code which bans adverts which feature gender stereotypes that are likely to cause harm, or serious or widespread offence. This is a...
Want to be healthy and happy? Choose a conscientious partner
Jun 19, 2019 02:21 am UTC| Life Health
Your partners personality can influence your life in all sorts of ways. For example, studies have shown that a conscientious partner is good...
Summer is coming! Here's why you need to protect your children's eyes
Jun 19, 2019 02:00 am UTC| Health
Should we buy sunglasses for children? And if so, how do we choose a quality product? Its a question that I get a lot in clinics. I reply that it is good to remember what the suns effects on eye health are, and how they...

The neuroscience of terrorism: how we convinced a group of radicals to let us scan their brains
Jun 13, 2019 01:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The young man sitting in the waiting room of our neuroimaging facility wearing skinny jeans and trainers looked like a typical Spanish 20-year-old of Moroccan origin. Yassine* was bouncy, chatting up the research...