A Consumer NZ test of kiwi sunscreen brands is misleading and dangerous, warns a Vitamin D researcher and author, because it ignores an elephant in the room – there’s growing evidence sunscreens don’t actually protect […]
OPINION By Ian Wishart The current moral panic in the news media over “quack” water Te Kiri Gold – claimed by its inventor to treat cancer – illustrates a wider problem facing daily news journalists: […]
CRITICAL THINKING The brain is a marvelous thing – but it can also play tricks on us (for our own good, of course) Have you ever felt badly blue, critically assessed your life and thought, […]
THE TREE OF LIFE new research on Gingko biloba excites science A tree that dinosaurs fed on, a tree that grows 30m tall and lives for a thousand years, may hold […]
ECO-BULBS: MAKING US BLIND? New generation energy efficient appliances and lights are destroying our sight Listen up. This could be one of the most important articles you read this year. IAN WISHART explains why […]
MERS patient is isolated in Indiana hospital By Juan Perez Jr. and Andy Grimm Chicago Tribune (MCT) The man US authorities cite as the nation’s first confirmed case of Middle East respiratory syndrome and dozens […]
BRUSHING UP ON THE SCIENCE Why you’re not being given the facts about fluoride It’s the debate that never goes away. Fluoride: it does get in – we all agree on that much – […]
HEALTH: June 05, AU Edition NOT SO FAT New numbers from America suggest obesity isn’t as dangerous as previously thought. But don’t reach for that Big Mac just yet Obesity is the second-leading preventable cause […]
America’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has issued an alert on the rapid spread of antibiotic resistant superbugs through hospitals and nursing homes, and says the world is on the brink of no longer being […]
The battle to employ more natural ingredients – rather than synthetic chemicals – in the fight against disease and aging has taken a new twist with the latest research on a particular Ginkgo biloba extract. […]
Just a spoonful of sugar Claire Morrow wonders why placebos sometimes work better than nothing Penicillin paediatric syrup is, to my mind, one of the most therapeutic possible smells. The white one, not the orange […]
An online survey conducted by a magazine, to establish New Zealand women’s views on fertility, has revealed some surprising results. The key problems New Zealand women said they encountered while trying to conceive were Endometriosis/Polycystic […]
OPINION BY BILL MUEHLENBERG Pepsi and Dead Babies For some time now we have known that the taste of Pepsi is based in part on the use of aborted babies. And now the Obama administration […]
BMJ-British Medical Journal Effects of Tamiflu still uncertain, warn experts, as Roche continues to withhold key trial data 2 years after pharmaceutical giant Roche promised the BMJ it would release key Tamiflu trial data for […]
TEENS REJECT ‘SAFE SEX’ EDUCATION SUPPORT PARENTAL NOTIFICATION AND ‘RIGHT TO LIFE’ Media Comment From Bob McCoskrie, FamilyFirst A nationwide poll of 600 young people aged 15-21 poll has found that they hold conservative values […]
Taipei (dpa) – A hospital administrator in Taiwan has accepted responsibility for a mix-up that led to five transplant patients receiving HIV-infected organs, a news report said Thursday. Ko Wen-che, head of transplants at National […]
Tokyo (dpa) – Hormonal and other irregularities were detected in the thyroid glands of 10 out of 130 children evacuated from areas near the damaged nuclear power plant in north-eastern Japan, news reports said Tuesday. […]
You know you’re soaking in it… BY CHLOE MILNE, INVESTIGATE HERS MAGAZINE University students get blamed for a lot of things… Like burning couches, causing riots, stealing road signs, wasting police and medical resources and […]
Three News is reporting tonight that Auckland’s prestigious King’s College has suspended two students after a drug sting involving outside security consultants. The background to this story follows: KILLING THEM SOFTLY THE LESSONS FROM THE […]
The Vitamin C Debate Medical ethics professor Grant Gillett wades into the Vitamin C debate First, I must say I am not an authority on Vitamin C but I take from the documents I have […]
BY GARRICK CORNELIUS, INVESTIGATE MAGAZINE All around the world, the use of Gardasil has set in motion a storm of stories about serious reactions. As far as the medical systems worldwide are concerned, these stories […]
By Robyn Dixon Los Angeles Times (MCT) JOHANNESBURG _ In South Africa, they call him “Dr. Death.” Wouter Basson, who ran the apartheid government’s secret germ and chemical warfare program, Project Coast, once was accused […]
By Masanori Tonegawa The Yomiuri Shimbun (MCT) TOKYO – The Japan Society for Lipid Nutrition has drawn up new guidelines stating that high cholesterol levels are better for living longer, defying conventional wisdom. There are […]
By Nadeem Sarwar Islamabad (dpa) – Three people have died at relief camps for Pakistan’s flood victims as diseases started to spread, media and health officials said on Tuesday. Relief workers are scrambling to […]
By Rachel Bernstein Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES – Patients with brain tumors don’t have many good options – surgery and radiation can damage crucial parts of the brain, and chemotherapy drugs don’t easily cross […]
The death toll from an outbreak of cholera reached 23 in the mid-western districts of Nepal, local media reported Wednesday. Officials said it had reached epidemic proportions in Nepalganj, 300 kilometres south-west of Kathmandu, […]
By Jeannine Stein Los Angeles Times The fascination with low-carb versus low-fat diet continues; the latest news comes from a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine released Monday that found that people on both […]
By William Weir The Hartford Courant HARTFORD, Conn. – When Sonic Drive-in opened its first Connecticut franchise in Wallingford last month, it came just in time to serve the fast-food chain’s newest menu item, the […]
Sydney (dpa) – It seems too good to be true: a treatment for the brain-wasting disease Alzheimer’s that doctors could be prescribing in just five years’ time. But it is a prospect that researchers at […]
By Noelle Phillips McClatchy Newspapers You do it. Your co-workers do it. Heck, even Russ Pate does it. And he runs marathons. “You send an e-mail to someone two doors down at the office,” Pate […]
The American Cancer Society recently reported some good news: Cancer is still on the run. Although men and women continue to get the disease in large numbers, the big change is found in cancer deaths. […]
By Sandy Kleffman SAN FRANCISCO _ Emergency room visits linked to abuse of prescription painkillers have jumped 111 percent in five years, straining the nation’s public health system, a recent study revealed. Urgent […]
By David Barber Wellington (dpa) – A retired New Zealand doctor dying from a terminal illness has launched a campaign for voluntary euthanasia to be legalized as a basic human right. Dr John Pollock, 61, […]
By Shari Roan LOS ANGELES _ Disrupted sleep patterns seem to contribute to the risk of obesity and diabetes, according to numerous studies. Researchers have theorized that disrupted circadian rhythms throw off various […]
PERCHANCE TO WALK Sleep is still barely understood; sleepwalking, even less so. A look into the bizarre world of people who go bump in the night So I sleepwalked the other night. I didn’t go […]
DON’T WORRY, DIE HAPPY Are party drugs really the best way to make a cancer patient’s last days more livable? Aside from those who die suddenly in accidents, quietly in their sleep, or simply sitting […]
CRITICAL THINKING The brain is a marvelous thing – but it can also play tricks on us (for our own good, of course) Have you ever felt badly blue, critically assessed your life and thought, […]
VICTORIA’S SECRET Why is the Bracks government sticking with a world-first roadside drug test that’s controversial, expensive, and will make Victorian motorists only marginally safer? JAMES MORROW crunches the numbers and finds that there are […]
How is Karen Matthews turning Ella Baché into a great name in Australian skincare? JAMES MORROW learns the secrets of one of the country’s youngest CEOs Youth is the name of the game in the […]
TYPE-A FOR EFFORT A little hard work never killed anyone, but coping poorly with it can do some real damage Keep working like this and you’ll give yourself an ulcer!’ The year is 1982, and […]
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