Category: Health & Wellness

Tasnim Elmamoun looks into the evidence to find some lessons that US health care can take away from the UK’s NHS.

African American women are four times more likely to die from causes related to pregnancy. Where is their voice in the health care debates? Adriana Gallardo talks to survivors.

Millions of people across the world want to make their skin lighter – but the treatments they use can be dangerous. Mary-Rose Abraham meets beauticians, dermatologists and their clients to walk the line between aesthetic choice and racial prejudice.

Traditional flush toilets aren’t an option in many parts of the world, but neither is leaving people with unsafe and unhygenic choices. Now, one company is piloting a new loo that’s waterless, off-grid and able to charge your phone. Lina Zeldovich travels to Madagascar to witness the start of a lavatorial revolution.

The nation’s health care tab is sky-high. Marshall Allen began tracking down the reasons. First stop: A look at all the perfectly good stuff hospitals throw away.

Slipping in the shower, tripping down the stairs, taking a tumble in the supermarket – falls kill over 420,000 people per year and hospitalise millions more. We can’t eliminate all falls, says Neil Steinberg. So we must learn to fall better.

Can virtual reality really soothe pain? Jo Marchant meets the doctors who say yes, and who hope this is a solution for the country consuming 80 per cent of the world’s opioid supply: the United States of America.

How do Scandinavians deal with long, dark winters? And what might this teach us about the relationship between our moods and sunlight? Linda Geddes writes.

An Australian police minister says he did not realise he was breaking the law when he picked up his mobile phone while driving.