Health

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.

Drug companies to work together to speed up new products

3rd April 20146th February 2014

Here’s a nice change: profit-driven multinational pharmaceutical companies are seeing the value in collaboration and co-operation with competitors, it seems, to get new medicines onto the market sooner. Here’s hoping they spend just as much quality time making sure those medicines are safe, and don’t wait for the drugs to kill people before they … Read more

How ‘Thorpedo’ could lift himself up from depression

3rd April 20146th February 2014

Australian Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe went into rehab for depression recently. He joins a long list of famous people throughout history who have battled the condition. An ancient meditation technique could ease his burden. By Marika Sboros Who would have thought Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe would have anything in common with Angelina Jolie, Abraham Lincoln, … Read more