E. coli Outbreak Update: Taylor Farms Pacific Recalls Products Out Of ‘Abundance Of Caution’
Dec 02, 2015 10:05 am UTC| Health
According to latest reports, an ingredient in the Costcos rotisserie chicken salad diced celery, has been found as the source of the recent E. coli outbreak. The said ingredient came from Taylor Farms Pacific of Tracy,...
Explainer: why is it so hard to lose weight?
Dec 02, 2015 01:57 am UTC| Health
We are designed to seek food our drive to do so is essential to our survival and we have a complex system to control this. Recent research shows that following weight loss, levels of circulating hormones which affect our...
Junk food advertisers put profits before children’s health – and we let them
Dec 01, 2015 00:08 am UTC| Health
For the first time in history, Australian children could live shorter lives than their parents. The reason? High rates of excess weight and obesity. Despite mounting evidence that junk food marketing is a big part of...
Why Europe will let member states opt out of GM crops
Nov 30, 2015 16:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
In the US, farmers have been cultivating crops with genetically engineered traits since the 1990s and their use and consumption is widespread. Thats not the case in Europe. In fact, a directive passed by the European...
Want to do something good for your health? Try being generous
Nov 30, 2015 16:19 pm UTC| Life Health
Every day, we are confronted with choices about how to spend our money. Whether its thinking about picking up the tab at a group lunch or when a charity calls asking for a donation, we are faced with the decision to behave...
A court just made a landmark ruling for abortion rights in Northern Ireland
Nov 30, 2015 15:52 pm UTC| Health Law
Belfasts High Court has ruled that Northern Ireland can no longer withhold abortions from women who have been the victims of rape or incest, or whose pregnancies involve a fatal foetal abnormality. The judgement is...
Beijing Maintains Orange Alert For Heavy Smog
Nov 30, 2015 11:14 am UTC| Health
Beijing on Sunday issued an orange pollution alert and has maintained the alert today. Heavy smog has covered the capital and is likely to affect all activities in the region. The authorities are closing highways,...
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