The influence of opium and cocaine panic in Canadian drug policy
Aug 13, 2018 13:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Current discussions on the history of prohibition and drug laws in Canada have explored the narrative that Canadas drug laws were fuelled by racism. The story goes like this: A 1907 anti-immigration attack on Chinese...
Five easy ways to boost children's spatial skills
Aug 13, 2018 13:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
When we read maps, pack the car for holidays, assemble flat-pack furniture or cut cake into equal slices, we use spatial reasoning skills. These allow us to mentally manipulate objects or think in a way that relates to...
Is it time to remove the cancer label from low-risk conditions?
Aug 13, 2018 13:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Over the past few decades, our understanding of cancer has changed. We now know some cancers dont grow or grow so slowly that theyll never cause medical problems. But the way we label disease can harm. The use of more...
Obesity is a market failure and personal responsibility will not solve it alone
Aug 13, 2018 13:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
This is the first of a two-part series on obesity as a market failure. Read the second part here. Obesity levels in Australia and around the world are high and rising. This comes at an enormous economic cost for society...
Obesity is a market failure and innovation, not sin taxes, may be the solution
Aug 13, 2018 13:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
This is the second of a two-part series on obesity as a market failure. Read the first part here. The standard economic response to high and rising obesity is to levy whats known as a sin tax. The thinking is simple ...
Health Check: why do we get nose bleeds?
Aug 13, 2018 12:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Nose bleeds, or epistaxes, are often a mystery to the 60% of us who have had at least one in our lifetime. Suddenly, and without obvious cause, bright red blood starts streaming from one nostril. Usually theyre not...
The promise of personalized medicine is not for everyone
Aug 13, 2018 12:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Could your medical treatment one day be tailored to your DNA? Thats the promise of personalized medicine, an individualized approach that has caught the imagination of doctors and researchers over the past few years. This...
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