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BizNews Health covers cutting-edge research, advances, opinions and debates in medicine, health and wellbeing from orthodox, complementary and alternative perspectives. We have a special focus on nutrition, fitness, longevity medicine, and prevention of non-communicable diseases – such as obesity, cancer, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, increasingly mood disorders such as depression, and dementias. We include lifestyle and travel to healthy destinations, since mind and body are integrally connected, and optimum health is not just the absence of disease, but a state of complete physical, mental, and even spiritual wellbeing.
Get more people active and we’re talking billions saved in absenteeism, not to mention presenteeism (being at work, but less productive).
Time to throw away all that Googled and/or anecdotal stuff upon which we base so many of our unhelpful responses when we or our loved ones come down with a cold or the flu.
Population ageing is often associated with health-related challenges. But its effects also reach other spheres of life.
Peter Gøtzsche goes further; drug trials are flawed, selective use of data and biased, with regulators failing in their duty of diligence.
Do you feel like nutritionists are always changing their minds? Do you want science-based information about diet but don’t know whom or what to believe?
The discovery that certain brain cell functions can be restored for a few hours with the circulation of artificial blood puts a small additional piece of data on the length of the death process.
It could be a clever recruiting mechanism for an important study on Parkinson’s disease – or a valuable public service enabling early detection and potentially better-managed and better treatment of this distressing malady.
Anthea Jeffery warns that ANC ideology instead of practicality is driving government support of health reforms.
Jenniffer Mabuka, Programme Manager for the African Academy of Sciences, pleads here with African governments to boost genomics research programs to help our continent’s people.
Research has shown that excess salt intake is harmful to people’s health. It can lead to high blood pressure and increase the risk of heart disease and stroke.