Explainer: what is scurvy and is it making a comeback?
Dec 02, 2016 05:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
A major hospital in western Sydney recently reported a number of diabetes patients were suffering from scurvy, a historical disease common in sailors on long voyages who were deprived of citrus fruit and...
Why the health and agriculture sectors need to work together to stop antibiotic resistance
Dec 02, 2016 05:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The Australian federal government recently announced a national plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance with an approach encompassing the health and agriculture sectors. Antimicrobial resistance occurs when...
Dec 02, 2016 04:41 am UTC| Health
Repeatedly, studies have found a large majority of smokers regret ever starting to smoke: 85% in this study, 90% in this four nation study. Each year, some 40% of smokers make an attempt to stop, with most relapsing within...
Dec 01, 2016 20:41 pm UTC| Health
Weve known that bacteria live in our intestines as far back as the 1680s, when Leeuwenhoek first looked through his microscope. Yogurt companies use that information in the sales pitch for their product, claiming it can...
After decades of research, why is AIDS still rampant?
Dec 01, 2016 20:36 pm UTC| Health
Today is World AIDS Day. More than three decades after the virus was first discovered, 5,753 people will become HIV infected today. About the same number will become infected tomorrow, and the same number the day after...
Got high cholesterol? Here are five foods to eat and avoid
Dec 01, 2016 19:19 pm UTC| Health
High fat, low fat, no carb, more carb: when it comes to getting information on eating to manage high blood cholesterol, confusion reigns. We checked the most recent research from trials that tested the impact of...
Health Check: why men wake up with erections
Dec 01, 2016 02:11 am UTC| Health
The morning penile erection, or as it is medically known, nocturnal penile tumescence, is not only an interesting physiological phenomenon, it can also tell us a lot about a patients sexual function. Morning penile...
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
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects