Health

Nutrition science is changing: low-fat is out, whole foods are in

January 11, 2019

Years of nutrition advice has urged consumers to cut fat. Well, now cutting edge science says healthy high-fat products could lower the chance of developing Type 2 diabetes.

Health

Japan’s shrinking labor force is finding new ways to fight karōshi — ‘death by overwork’

PRI's The World

January 10, 2019

One Toyko company has started playing "Eye of the Tiger" at quitting time and last year, the government placed a cap on overtime hours, but workers suffer from a labor shortage that causes too much work for each worker.

Sexuality

Muslim women chart their own path in #MeToo era

GlobalPost

January 04, 2019

HEART Women & Girls, whose sex educators are all Muslim, raises awareness about sexual health and violence within the community.

How the Spanish flu could have changed 1919's Paris peace talks

The Conversation

January 02, 2019

The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 infected more than one-third of the world. It may have also affected the outcome of the 1919 peace talks in Parias after WWI.

Health & Medicine

Thailand approves medical pot in small step away from US-backed drug war

PRI's The World

December 28, 2018

For decades, Thailand moved in lockstep with America’s global war on drugs — and sometimes waged that war with an aggression that wouldn’t fly in the US, so the legalization of medical pot is quite remarkable.

Indonesia searches for survivors after deadly tsunami

Reuters

December 24, 2018

Hundreds were killed and more than 1,000 wounded in Saturday's tsunami, which was triggered by an underwater volcano eruption.

Women & Girls

Abortion is legal in Italy, but most doctors refuse to perform them

PRI's The World

December 18, 2018

It's estimated that between 70 and 90 percent of doctors in Italy are "conscientious objectors" and refuse to perform abortions, even though it's been legal for 40 years.

Health & Medicine

As access to abortion gets harder in the US, women turn to an online service in the Netherlands

PRI's The World

December 17, 2018

Roe v. Wade made abortion legal in the US. But legal and accessible — that's not always the same thing. Some states are passing legislation aimed at restricting abortion. The latest is in Ohio, where two bills to limit abortion just landed on the governor's desk. And that has some women in need turning to an unconventional place: the internet.