Health

When it comes to reporting the number of sex partners or how often they have sexual intercourse, men and women both lie. While men...

There is so much debate currently about how best to provide health insurance coverage in our country that we risk losing sight of what...

Molecular insight into our own DNA is now possible, a field called personal genomics. Such approaches can let us know when we might have...

The Republicans’ controversial effort to repeal the perhaps optimistically named Affordable Care Act because of rising premiums may be fatally stalled. But there are...

Spring is just around the corner, and with it comes another growing season. Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can help lower...

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...

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...

It will take effective prevention, accurate and timely diagnosis and treatment to successfully eliminate malaria. But none of this will help if the causative...

At the turn of the 21st century, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published an article about the 10 greatest public health achievements...

  For a long time, medieval medicine has been dismissed as irrelevant. This time period is popularly referred to as the “Dark Ages,” which erroneously...

South Africa has been wrapped up in public and parliamentary debates on the value of South Africa’s proposed sugar tax. These highlight that the...

Two years ago, former President Barack Obama announced the Precision Medicine initiative in his State of the Union Address. The initiative aspired to a...