The Bottomless Craft Beer Festival 2017 is in Soweto!
The 1st annual Bottomless Craft Beer Festival is happening in the historic suburb of Soweto, Johannesburg on 30 April 2017.
A celebration of good friends,...
Can the study of epigenomics lead to personalized cancer treatment?
Molecular insight into our own DNA is now possible, a field called personal genomics. Such approaches can let us know when we might have...
Why addressing loneliness in children can prevent a lifetime of loneliness...
The Republicans’ controversial effort to repeal the perhaps optimistically named Affordable Care Act because of rising premiums may be fatally stalled. But there are...
Don’t believe everything you hear about pesticides on fruits and vegetables
Spring is just around the corner, and with it comes another growing season. Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can help lower...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
South Africa needs more than a sugar tax to get to...
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...
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...
