How GPS devices can help find people with dementia when they get lost
Jan 10, 2017 14:17 pm UTC| Technology Health
Twenty-four satellites circle the Earth twice a day and transmit signals to global positioning system (GPS) receivers. The system is owned by the US military, but anyone in the world can use it to get their bearings and...
What happens to your gut if you eat a gold pizza?
Jan 10, 2017 12:03 pm UTC| Health
A restaurant in the New York financial district is offering customers a pizza priced at US$2,000 (1,623). It is topped with caviar, stilton cheese and gold leaf, with each bite costing around US$50. New York is usually...
Heart attacks are more common in January – here's why
Jan 10, 2017 00:07 am UTC| Health
Cardiovascular deaths around the world, such as heart attacks and strokes, peak in January. Why this is the case has baffled scientists for some time, but new evidence is starting to unravel the mystery. Scientists...
Uncertainty in blood supply chains creating challenges for industry
Jan 09, 2017 06:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
When we talk about supply chains, we may conjure up images of manufacturing plants, warehouses, trucks and shipping docks. There is another, truly unique supply chain for a product vitally important to health care and...
Is it safe to microwave your food?
Jan 09, 2017 05:17 am UTC| Health
Today every kitchen would seem under-equipped without a microwave, with its efficient ability to cook, defrost and reheat a variety of different foods. The handy appliance uses microwave radiation to do so. This is a type...
Slum health is not urban health: why we must distinguish between the two
Jan 08, 2017 03:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
We live in an urban century. Already more than 50% of the global population lives in urban areas. The United Nations estimates that by 2030 five billion of the worlds population of eight billion will be urban. Most of the...
Expainer: how diabetic foot disease can lead to amputations and even death
Jan 08, 2017 02:36 am UTC| Health
People with diabetes are prone to foot disease, which can lead to amputations and even death. Australia has the second-highest rate of lower-limb amputations in the developed world with the rate having risen by 30% over...
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
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