Posts by Team VIVA!

Maintaining your fitness without exercising sounds like a dream, right? Well, international research is set to turn this fact on its head, with the introduction of an ‘exercise pill’ promising to generate the effects of exercise without expending any energy. A new study conducted by University of Sydney and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, published…

Health experts are growing increasingly infuriated by a new “pox party” trend where ‘anti-vaxxers’ – parents conscientiously opposed to vaccinating their children – are dealing with the issue of immunity by exposing their non-immunised children to children with contagious diseases (e.g. chicken pox, measles), in order to activate/stimulate an immune response. The controversy of this…

In what has been dubbed a “fast-tracked plan to eradicate Hepatitis C” in Australia, the Federal Government yesterday (December 20, 2015) pledged to invest AUD$1 billion over the next five years to subsidise the cost of four-combination-therapies or “new generation” treatments for the potentially life-threatening disease.  The Government’s lofty goal in subsidising the “new generation”…

“When you’re too old to use Twitter, you use it poorly” – Vince Staples, 22, American Rapper. Historically (well, for the past 11 years if we consider Facebook the trailblazer) social media has been a “young person’s game.” Following the launch of “Facemash” in October, 2003 – a website created by Mark Zuckerberg to allow…