Genetic detectives: how scientists use DNA to track disease outbreaks

Apr 29, 2016 10:21 am UTC| Science Health

Theyre the top questions on everyones mind when a new disease outbreak happens: where did the virus come from? When did this happen? How long has it been spreading in a particular country or group of people? These...

Having trouble picking the right health insurance plan? Let an algorithm decide

Apr 29, 2016 10:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Law Health

One key goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to lower health care costs by giving consumers more choice over their insurer. Economic theory suggests that when consumers make informed and active choices in a...

Is social media making people depressed?

Apr 27, 2016 22:22 pm UTC| Health

Anyone who regularly uses social media will have had the experience of feeling envious of the fun their friends all seem to be having. This might especially be the case if youre are sitting at home on a cold wet evening,...

Is the end near for the chiropractic profession as we know it?

Apr 27, 2016 21:48 pm UTC| Health

There has been a rising tide of demands from Governmental and other regulatory bodies targeting two related but distinct problems within the chiropractic profession. The first is the push from COAG Health Ministers, the...

Disease evolution: the origins of anorexia and how it's shaped by culture and time

Apr 27, 2016 21:17 pm UTC| Health

There are fashions in diseases, as in anything else. Its understandable that a new, infectious and life-threatening malady could preoccupy us, such as cholera in the 19th century or Ebola in recent times. It is harder...

Supplements including fish oil and vitamin D can boost effects of antidepressant medications

Apr 27, 2016 09:46 am UTC| Health

Taking some nutrient supplements together with antidepressants can enhance the medications effects, our research has found. Published this week in the American Journal of Psychiatry, our review of the evidence found...

Disease evolution: our long history of fighting viruses

Apr 27, 2016 08:01 am UTC| Health

A virus is essentially an information system (encoded in DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protective coat and shaped by evolution to ensure its own replication and survival. Viruses grow only in living cells. But they infect...