3 things I learned from delivering medical aid to a remote part of Puerto Rico

Nov 07, 2017 06:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

I belong to a group called Doctors for Puerto Rico. We have been dispatching medicine and small teams of medical staff to the island, in coordination with local health authorities since two-and-a-half weeks after...

The long, strange history of dieting fads

Nov 07, 2017 06:02 am UTC| Health

Of all the parasites that affect humanity I do not know of, nor can I imagine, any more distressing than that of Obesity. So started William Bantings Letter on Corpulence, likely the first diet book ever published....

Three proven psychological treatments for young people that need to be funded

Nov 03, 2017 07:44 am UTC| Health

From the first of November Australians living in rural and remote areas will be eligible to receive Medicare rebates for psychological treatments delivered in part via video conferencing. This is a step in the right...

Replacing pharmacists with robots isn't the answer to better productivity

Oct 25, 2017 07:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

Reforming pharmacy services and the role of pharmacists is one of the recommendations made in a five-year review of the nations productivity, released yesterday. The Productivity Commissions report, Shifting the Dial,...

Why aren't we curing the world's most curable diseases?

Oct 25, 2017 02:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

Once upon a time, the world suffered. In 1987, 20 million people across the world were plagued by a debilitating, painful and potentially blinding disease called river blindness. This parasitic infection caused pain,...

More teenage girls are self harming than ever before – here's why

Oct 23, 2017 15:51 pm UTC| Health

A recent storyline on TV soap Hollyoaks has been praised as a masterpiece of televion after focusing on the issue of self harm in young people. The show, which worked with charities Samaritans and Mind on the episode,...

The burger apocalypse: low carbon eating and avoiding food waste

Oct 23, 2017 02:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

More than 95% of people still eat meat and dont like being told that it is wrong and bad for the planet to do so. But it is now well established that meat production is responsible for a substantial proportion of human...