Older people abuse drugs because they’re in pain, but there are better ways to...
By Michael B Friedman, Columbia University
It should be no surprise that older adults are the largest users of prescription medication. After all, older adults...
When it comes to Ebola, how much risk is too much?
By Catherine Womack, Bridgewater State University
Taking care of sick people has always involved personal risk. From plague to tuberculosis to smallpox to SARS, health-care...
When a drawing or cartoon image can land you in jail
By Abhilash Nair, Northumbria University
A cartoon can land you in court, as happened to a man recently convicted of possessing non-photographic images – cartoons,...
How tests and wrong answers help us remember what we learn
By Nate Kornell, Williams College
Teachers give tests to find out what their students know. But tests do a lot more than that and can...
A high oil price might be a good thing for the world – here’s...
By Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington
Oil prices have fallen dramatically since August – and, rather counter-intuitively, this could be a bad thing. As...
Most disappointing headline ever (No, chocolate will not improve your memory)
By Ian Musgrave
This morning I woke to the most disappointing headline ever. “A Bite to Remember? Chocolate Is Shown to Aid Memory” was prominent...
Lack of new drugs is being overcome by new ways of delivering old ones
By Benjamin Burke, University of Hull
Development of new drugs for treatment of disease is an expensive, time-consuming and labour-intensive effort for both pharmaceutical companies...
Official healthy food guide hasn’t changed in 20 years: five things that need updating
By Kremlin Wickramasinghe, University of Oxford and Mike Rayner, University of Oxford
The Eatwell plate is the UK government’s official food guide about which foods...
