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.
It’s the stuff of nightmares – the not unreasonable fear that the deadly Ebola virus sweeping across West Africa could find its way down south, and South Africa is not safe after all. In what could be the first case, a 37-year-old South African man working as a health and safety officer in a mining operation in Liberia has been admitted to the Charlotte … Read more
As the Ebola epidemic escalates there is a lot of confusion and uncertainty about the disease. Confusion and uncertainty can often spread ill-informed information. To get all of the facts on the Ebola virus and the current situation on the ground, Alec Hogg spoke to Daniel Berman, General Director of Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) … Read more
The World Health Organisation announced today that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been declared an international emergency. The words ‘outbreak’, ‘epidemic’ and ’emergency’ have been bandied about en-masse, which can often have a panicked knock-on effect. What exactly does the WHO mean by international emergency? Is the rest of the world at risk? … Read more
From Agence France-Presse – Swiss researchers say they have taken an important step towards a cure for arthritis, successfully testing a prototype treatment in mice that may soon be trialled on humans. The experimental drug “fully cured” arthritic mice who had hobbled on inflamed and swollen toes and paws, scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute … Read more
There’s more than enough research around to show that people often resemble their pets. The phenomenon is well-documented, and could be a function of people being drawn to animals that look like them. Now new research presents even stronger evidence to show the DNA links between you and your closest friends. It’s an intriguing theory on human evolution – and what … Read more
By Sharon Begley NEW YORK – That obesity can cut life short by causing strokes and other illnesses comes as no surprise, but a new study quantifies the toll: The most extreme cases cut a person’s lifespan more than cigarettes are able to do. The analysis, published in the journal PLOS (Public Library of Science) Medicine, … Read more
Too often, technology is made out to be the devil incarnate, intent on destroying hearts and minds, and even bodies, of young people. Danah Boyd, principal researcher at Microsoft and an assistant professor in media, culture and communication at New York University, brings much needed sanity and balance back into the debate. In her new book, It’s Complicated: … Read more
It is known as the ‘ship of the desert’, and in scientific terms ‘an even-toed ungulate with the genus Camelus’, bearing distinctive fatty deposits known as ‘humps’ on its back. The camel produces milk called a ‘nearly perfect animal product for humans’. Its health properties have helped to boost the fledgling camel milk industry’s marketing efforts. Proponents say … Read more
They don’t always make the headlines, and among the great champions are not just those who have conquered Everest or won Olympic gold, but also the many who have beaten cancer. It takes guts, perseverance and determination to face a life-threatening disease head on. Most of all, it takes a new ‘collaborative’ approach to conquering disease … Read more
Stem cell therapy is not new – nor is the ethical, religious and philosophical controversy surrounding it. Routine therapeutic use has so far been limited to blood-forming stem cells that derive from the body’s bone marrow, peripheral blood, or umbilical cord blood. The most well-known of this type of therapy, and the only one in common use worldwide, is bone … Read more