Telecare is more than just technology – it has the power to create care networks for older people

Mar 06, 2017 13:13 pm UTC| Technology Health

Over the next 25 years, the percentage of people aged over 85 is set to more than double, with one in four in this age group already counting as frail. In the over 65s, this is estimated at one in ten. At the same time,...

How diets high in sugar and saturated fat could be harming your brain

Mar 06, 2017 13:09 pm UTC| Health

A lot of research has been conducted to establish the risks that a high energy diet high in saturated fat and sugar poses to our health. The most common known results of such diets include obesity, heart disease and...

Please don't do your own research on immunisation; you'll get it wrong

Mar 06, 2017 13:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Politics

Pauline Hanson has become the latest politician to flirt with the fringe view of immunisation denial. Of course, like all thoroughly modern anti-vaxers, she claims to be about choice and empowerment rather than denial of...

The Victorians are to blame for assumptions that self-harm is just attention-seeking

Mar 06, 2017 12:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

As I know from bitter experience, self-harm is often linked to a desire to seek attention. Whats the point in referring you? a GP once said to me, with obvious irritation, when I asked him for referral to a free, charity...

How traditional medicine can play a key role in Latino health care

Mar 06, 2017 02:31 am UTC| Health

In the U.S., many undocumented individuals and other vulnerable groups in the Latino immigrant population, such as indigenous language speakers, are already marginalized from mainstream health services. Increased scrutiny...

How new hepatitis C drugs could tackle liver cancer, too

Mar 06, 2017 02:27 am UTC| Health

Wider availability of newer hepatitis C drugs may not only lead to fewer cases of this blood-borne disease, but may also slow the rise in related liver cancer. But these so-called direct acting antiviral drugs have not...

Colonoscopy: nothing to fear from the 'silver stallion'

Mar 06, 2017 02:07 am UTC| Health

I recently had a colonoscopy, an invasive medical procedure to examine the bowel, and was hugely relieved to get the all-clear. I posted a description of my experience to my friends on Facebook and got a range of...