How the digitalisation of everything is making us more lonely

Feb 08, 2018 14:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Technology

The UK government recently appointed its first minister of loneliness. The move came in response to increasing concern of a loneliness epidemic sweeping Western society. Psychologists define loneliness as a subjective,...

I've been diagnosed with iron deficiency, now what?

Feb 08, 2018 13:25 pm UTC| Health

Iron deficiency is the most common nutrient deficiency in the developed world, affecting around one in three women of reproductive age. It can develop when iron intakes or iron absorption rates are unable to meet the...

How labels like 'addict' and 'junkie' mask class contempt for drug users

Feb 08, 2018 13:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Terms such as drug user, addict or the blatantly pejorative junkie, dope head or stoner, are loaded with moral bias. They suggest that people who consume psychoactive substances are mentally weak and dangerous when in...

New App Equipped With AI Could Help Treat Depression

Feb 01, 2018 05:00 am UTC| Technology Health

Depression is one of the most widely misunderstood psychological conditions in the modern world. A lot of people simply assume that its about people feeling said. Unfortunately, it goes a lot deeper than that since it can...

Five supplements that claim to speed up weight loss - and what the science says

Jan 30, 2018 13:26 pm UTC| Health

When you google weight loss the challenge to sort fact from fiction begins. These five supplements claim to speed up weight loss, but lets see what the evidence says. 1. Raspberry ketones Raspberry ketones, sold as...

How neoliberalism is damaging your mental health

Jan 30, 2018 12:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law Health

There is a widespread perception that mental ill health is on the rise in the West, in tandem with a prolonged decline in collective well-being. The idea that there are social and economic causes behind this perceived...

Why ignoring mental health needs of young Syrian refugees could harm us all

Jan 30, 2018 12:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

When a seven-year-old student in eastern Aleppo was asked at the peak of the bombardment campaign by the Assad regime in 2015 to draw a picture, he did not draw children playing, nor did he draw a blue sky or a smiling...