Melanoma: Taming a migratory menace
Feb 03, 2017 15:43 pm UTC| Health
The deadliest cancer of the skin is cutaneous melanoma. In 2017 over 160,000 Americans are expected to be diagnosed with melanoma, and over half will have invasive disease, or one that has gone beyond the skin and which...
ADHD: claims we're diagnosing immature behaviour make it worse for those affected
Feb 03, 2017 07:40 am UTC| Health
A recent study on prescriptions of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications for children in Western Australia found a similar trend to that already shown by data from the US and other...
Preventative medicine: the argument for and against
Feb 02, 2017 14:03 pm UTC| Health
Preventative medicine has long used drugs to prevent the onset of disease. Those with symptoms such as high blood sugar or pressure are often diagnosed with the pre-condition, such as prediabetes or prehypertension, if...
Why children find 'poo' so hilarious – and how adults should tackle it
Feb 02, 2017 13:58 pm UTC| Health
A boy meets a man carrying a load of cow manure and asks him what he is going to do with it all. The man tells the little boy, Im taking it home to put on my strawberries. The boy looks up at the man and says, I dont know...
When the drugs don’t work: how we can turn the tide of antimicrobial resistance
Feb 01, 2017 15:53 pm UTC| Health
A new report by the Australian Academy of Science has called for the Australian government to take immediate action to counter the growing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics, a problem known as antimicrobial resistance....
Why using a mobile phone while driving is so dangerous ... even when you're hands-free
Feb 01, 2017 13:43 pm UTC| Health
A recent police clampdown on driving using hand-held mobile phones caught nearly 8,000 UK drivers in a week, ostensibly reflecting a widespread disregard of a law intended to protect all. But is using a hand-held mobile...
'Seeing' music or 'tasting' numbers? Here's what we can learn from people with synaesthesia
Feb 01, 2017 13:33 pm UTC| Health
Imagine what the world would be like if numbers had specific spatial locations, music had shapes, or colours made sounds. Perhaps youd experience the bass in the Jamie xx track Gosh as cuboid, metallic and heavy, with...
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
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight