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...
Pharma giant plots to destroy cancer drugs to drive up prices
Aspen Pharmaceuticals, a South African drug company, plotted to drive up the prices for several of its products, including a chemotherapy drug called busulfan, a drug called Leukeran...
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,...
Yoga to overcome insomnia by Yogi Ashwini
We spend one-third of our life sleeping or resting. A person who is seventy, taking the average of 7-8 hours of rest daily, would...
Splash Out with Zapper at Splashy Fen 2017
In just a few short days, thousands of passionate music lovers will flock towards Underberg, KwaZulu-Natal for the annual Splashy Fen Festival.
This year’s event,...
Yoga to bring desired changes in body by Yogi Ashwini
Yog taps into the power of consciousness, which simply put, is the ability to manifest thoughts and desires. Yogis and rishis have been known...
#BeBoldforChange – Celebrating International Women’s Day
Action Aid joins the world in celebrating International Women's Day and this year they acknowledge women who are bold to make change amid societal...
