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...
How LSD helped us probe what the 'sense of self' looks like in the brain
Apr 14, 2016 01:57 am UTC| Health
Every single person is different. We all have different backgrounds, views, values and interests. And yet there is one universal feeling that we all experience at every single moment. Call it an ego, a self or just an I ...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects