Is Your Household Missing Out?

Australia’s Lost Savings: Is Your Household Missing Out? It’s fair to say financial pressure is packing quite the punch for many Aussie families right now. Between higher interest rates, soaring…

Modeling the risk factors for household transmission of SARS-CoV-2

Households are settings that involve repeated and close contact between individuals of different generations. Such a setting could be useful to study the factors that contribute to the transmission of…

Mum Makes 7-Year-Old Child Pay For Household Bills

Mum sparks furious debate online after she revealed she teaches her daughter the value of money by making her pay money towards the household bills. A mother has sparked a…

Can Tulsi cause infertility? Know the benefits and risks of overeating this household herb

The humble Tulsi plant has immense benefits when it comes to curing various seasonal ailments New Delhi: Tulsi is related to the familiar sweet basil that enhances food flavour, as…

Girls’ time spent in unpaid household work contributes to the gender pay gap

Young women and girls’ time spent in unpaid household work contributes to the gender pay gap, according to new research from the Universities of East Anglia (UEA), Birmingham and Brunel.…

Household contact management could help avert 20% of the multi-drug resistant TB cases in children

One in five multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) cases in children under the age of 15 could be averted every year by household contact management, according to a new modeling…

What role do children play in household transmission of COVID-19?

The global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and has claimed more than 6.26 million lives. Households represent…

The relationship between household type, COVID-19 and mental health

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers demonstrated the relationship between the built environment with a common element and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission and mental health…

5 Common Household Problems to Keep an Eye Out For

There truly is no place like home, but when issues arise, they can be a real pain to deal with. Some issues are more likely to come up than others.…

10 Things You Should Do To Minimise Household Expenses

If there’s one thing we all can agree on, it’s saving money and minimise household expenses. I haven’t met anyone yet who was so keen on not saving money at all. Well, I’ve…