As the country moves into lockdown mode in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are increasingly faced with serious ethical questions about what ordinary people should be obliged to do for others. These challenges can perhaps best be seen in the outrage as people flocked to Bondi Beach and packed into pubs and cafes over […]
Tofu could help women lower their risk of heart disease by 18 per cent because it is high in naturally occurring chemicals, researchers find Tofu, a soybean curd that is originally from China, is high in isoflavones The curd is considered a good source of vegetarian protein and meat substitute The research looked at data […]
How fast could COVID-19 spread in Australia? And how many people could potentially be infected? We can’t of course know for sure, but we have enough data to make some rough forecasts; and being forewarned is to be forearmed. So we’ve developed an interactive website that gives a ten-day forecast, by country, on likely numbers […]
The World Health Organization has been criticized for being slow to declare a public health emergency and a pandemic as COVID-19 spread. Yale SOM’s Saed Alizamir, with Francis de Véricourt of ESMT and Shouqiang Wang of the University of Texas at Dallas, recently published a study that uses game theory to play out the tradeoffs […]
(HealthDay)—Overall, opioid-related deaths in the United States fell 2% between 2017 and 2018, according to newly released data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC said deaths involving prescription opioids were down 13.5%, while heroin-related deaths fell 4%. But fatal overdoses involving synthetic opioids (excluding methadone) were up 10%. “Decreases in […]
Social distancing—voluntarily limiting physical contact with other people—has been vital to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. But it’s important that people remain connected—otherwise a long-term mental and physical health crisis might follow the viral one, warns Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki. Here, Zaki, an associate professor of psychology in Stanford’s School of Humanities […]
As social distancing policies come into play and schools progressively cancel sports, excursions and extra-curricular activities, UniSA experts are cautioning parents that filling this void with additional screen time could be detrimental to their children’s health. Leading children’s behavioral health expert, UniSA’s Associate Professor Carol Maher says while screens are a tempting distraction for children […]
Two new studies from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden underscore health risks associated with childhood obesity. Children with obesity have a three times higher risk of mortality in early adulthood compared with children in the general population and are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression. The findings, published in PLOS Medicine and BMC Medicine, […]
Personalized blood biopsies, which scan patient blood samples for genetic traces of cancer, could potentially provide an earlier warning of metastatic cancer before it is picked up through standard monitoring. Researchers in the Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have increased the sensitivity of […]
As coronavirus panic accelerates, store shelves are beginning to look pretty picked over, and certain household necessities are in short supply as people cross the line from stocking up into outright hoarding. If you didn’t empty your bank account and fill your spare room with thousands of rolls of toilet paper, though, should you start […]
