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.
Australian corporate banker turned health author David Gillespie explains, there are ways to reduce the risk of Parkinson’s Disease. Starting with avoiding sunflower, canola, sesame and other seed oils.
Here, a snapshot at the most relaxing new travel perks in the skies – mostly in business and first class – including a few that might warrant leaving the melatonin at home.
If you eat every three hours, you are eating addictively, Professor Tim Noakes said during a talk on challenging carbohydrate beliefs in Cape Town.
The surgeon claims he will be ready to do a head transplant in 2017. Colleagues elsewhere doubt the technical feasibility, quite apart from the ethical nightmare if it goes wrong.
Discovery CEO Adrian Gore is a recipient of this year’s Geneva Forum for Health Award by the Forum for Health in Geneva, Switzerland.
Forget human DNA. In forensics, gut bacteria and colony of microbes in the body and on the skin may be a unique identifier, much like a fingerprint, researchers say.
Former South African columnist Jani Allan has learned how to ‘rock with the waves’, and invent a ‘new way of being in the world’
US spending on prescription drugs saw the largest increase since 2001, with the nation’s pharmacy bill rising to $373.9 billion last year as new treatments came to market and manufacturers increased prices on old ones.
US psychiatrist Dr Ann Childers says a low-carb, high-fat diet is best for stable, good mood in both adults and children.
Jonno Proudfoot fell into food by mistake. Once there, he was hooked. Here he talks about the health benefits and where next for his Real Meal Revolution