Can people actually multitask?
Apr 18, 2016 04:18 am UTC| Health
Many of us believe we can do two things at once. We try it every day even though our limitations are obvious. Yet we persist, so much so that laws need to be passed to deal with our foolishness. For instance, it is...
Mutant malaria parasites resistant to antimalarial Atovaquone cannot spread: new research
Apr 15, 2016 01:09 am UTC| Health
Resistance to a commonly used antimalarial medication, Atovaquone, cant spread to the general human population, new research suggests. This is significant as scientists have been racing against malaria parasites rapid...
Thinking about getting the 2016 flu vaccine? Here's what you need to know
Apr 14, 2016 23:25 pm UTC| Health
Up to one in ten adults and three in ten children are infected with influenza each year. The vaccine we have used for decades, the trivalent vaccine (TIV), protects against three strains of flu. But in 2016, for the...
Gardening is good for health, society and the odd revolution
Apr 14, 2016 16:40 pm UTC| Health
Its National Gardening Week, the UKs biggest celebration of gardening, according to the Royal Horticultural Society. And judging by the many, many, many images posted on social media, its hard to disagree. There is much...
New weapon in war on rabies: mobile phones
Apr 14, 2016 07:43 am UTC| Health
Outside Dr Chibondas clinic in a remote village in the rural heartland of Tanzania, seven families sit waiting anxiously. One mother is with her teenage daughter and two young sons, and finding it particularly difficult to...
What we know and suspect about the causes of Parkinson's disease
Apr 14, 2016 07:09 am UTC| Health
Parkinsons disease is the second-most-prevalent neurodegenerative condition in Australia, with an estimated 70,000 Australians living with the disease. Because of its complex and debilitating nature, Parkinsons is a great...
Mr Nice, drug trafficking – and how Britain now grows its own weed
Apr 14, 2016 02:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The celebrated Oxford-educated cannabis smuggler, Howard Marks aka Mr Nice is no longer with us. He devoted his early career to international cannabis trafficking (mainly into the US), which eventually brought him a...
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