Medieval medical books could hold the recipe for new antibiotics
For a long time, medieval medicine has been dismissed as irrelevant. This time period is popularly referred to as the “Dark Ages,” which erroneously...
What Netflix can teach us about treating cancer
Two years ago, former President Barack Obama announced the Precision Medicine initiative in his State of the Union Address. The initiative aspired to a...
Amira Willighagen – Live in Concert – South Africa
Amira Willighagen and Patrizio Buanne perform 'O Sole Mio' during the 'Classics is Groot' concert held in South Africa on 30 July 2016.
Amira appeared...
Cycling to work can halve cancer and heart disease risk
The news that cycling is good for your health is unlikely to come as a surprise. However, the extent to just how significantly a person's health could be...
Why your child still needs vaccines, even if you may not...
At the turn of the 21st century, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published an article about the 10 greatest public health achievements...
Online Shopping – Safer & Faster Checkouts with Zapper
These days, a significant amount of retail business transactions take place in the online space. E-commerce has given customers with little time to spend...
Africa’s anti-malaria efforts face a new hurdle – drug and insecticide...
The resistance of malaria parasites to antimalarial drugs and insecticides is a growing global public health concern. The Conversation Africa’s Health and Medicine Editor...
Why medicinal plants could play a role in treating malaria
It will take effective prevention, accurate and timely diagnosis and treatment to successfully eliminate malaria. But none of this will help if the causative...
AN APPEAL FROM BREAST CANCER NGO, REACH FOR RECOVERY
Help us uplift underprivileged survivors of breast cancer: Buy mushrooms in Pink Punnets this October
You may not know it but every member of the...
What does it mean to be a 21st-Century learner?
The classroom we knew years back doesn’t exist anymore. Desks lined up in rows, chalkboards, and independent work has been exchanged for interactive technologies,...
New study suggests six-month-old babies can be racists
Pretty much everything is racist these days: puppets, hurricanes, regions of spacetime. But babies too?
According to Kang Lee, renowned professor of psychology with the Ontario Institute of Child Study,...
World Food Day: It’s time to rethink food
In support of World Food Day and in line with growing food security concerns, Roxanne McLean, Owner of Founder Foods and CEO of FreshBox,...
