Changing the face of autism: here come the girls
Apr 01, 2016 09:21 am UTC| Health Science
If you ask someone to name famous people (fictional or non-fictional) who are known for having autism or being on the spectrum, Rain Man is often the top favourite, possibly followed by Sherlock Holmes (especially in his...
Four things parents can do to keep their kids’ kidneys healthy
Apr 01, 2016 05:48 am UTC| Health
There has been an increase in kidney disease in children globally. In the developed world up to 5% of patients with chronic kidney disease are children. But statistics are harder to come by in the developing world. The...
Resisting expanding disease empires: why we shouldn't label healthy people as sick
Apr 01, 2016 00:57 am UTC| Health
You might have heard the frightening news last year suggesting half of all Americans had some form of diabetes. A survey in the journal JAMA was covered extensively, including by NBC, WebMD and the Los Angeles...
Is anyone there? About consciousness and its disorders
Mar 31, 2016 08:44 am UTC| Health
Imagine you just woke up from a deep, dreamless sleep. Fuzzy at first, you suddenly become aware of your surrounding, your body, your reality. We say at this point that you are conscious. But although familiar and...
Time for better chronic disease management in primary care
Mar 31, 2016 08:35 am UTC| Health
Living with a chronic disease, such as heart disease, diabetes or asthma, is hard work. Today the federal government announced its intention to revolutionise the way chronic diseases and complex conditions are cared...
Ebola and Zika epidemics are driven by pathologies of society, not just a virus
Mar 30, 2016 15:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The global health threats posed by recent viral epidemics, such as avian flu, H1N1, Ebola and Zika, have been happening too frequently to be dismissed as coincidental. Unless the global public health community invests...
Should alcohol limits for men and women really be the same?
Mar 30, 2016 14:10 pm UTC| Law Health
The UKs new alcohol guidelines advise that men and women shouldnt drink more than 14 units of alcohol a week. Previous advice for the British drinker presented a higher threshold for men, so this represents a considerable...
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