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Date of Posting: 03-12-2014
A UK study has found that although more than half its respondents had cancer symptoms, only two per cent thought cancer might be the cause. People may be risking their lives by dismissing cancer warning signs as less serious symptoms, a study has Read More...
Wine could be as harmful as vodka
Date of Posting: 03-12-2014
Liver disease now accounts for 500 per cent more deaths among working age people in the UK than in the 1970s, according to a UK health official. Drinking a large glass of wine is as potentially harmful as downing three shots of vodka, a UK senior Read More...
HIV drug 'can slow prostate cancer spread'
Date of Posting: 03-12-2014
Early studies have demonstrated the HIV drug maraviroc can dramatically curb the lethal spread of prostate cancer in mice with the disease. A drug used to treat HIV infection can slow the deadly spread of prostate cancer, new research suggests.[su Read More...
Home DNA kit goes on sale in UK
Date of Posting: 03-12-2014
For STG125, Britons can now purchase a home DNA kit to get information about their health, ancestry and family traits. A personal DNA testing kit that gives users an insight into their genetic make up has gone on sale in the UK.[subscribe] The Read More...
Boost to Victorian paramedics and nurses
Last Updated: 02-12-2014
Victorian paramedics are on the threshold of a new era with the incoming Labor government promising to resolve their bitter long-running industrial relations dispute. Premier-elect Daniel Andrews has pledged to end the paramedics’ pay disput Read More...
Rural health programme reaches significant milestone
Last Updated: 02-12-2014
The Government funded Nursing and Allied Health Rural Locum Scheme (NAHRLS) celebrated its 3000th placement at an event in Parliament House last night. Since 2011, NAHRLS has been placing nurses, midwives and allied health professio Read More...
Successful move for sick kids in Brisbane
Date of Posting: 01-12-2014
Staff and patients from two Brisbane children's hospitals are now under one roof, as the Royal and Mater merge in the new Lady Cilento Children's Hospital. The difficult job of moving dozens of sick children across Brisbane has wrapped up Read More...
New bird flu outbreak in the Netherlands
Date of Posting: 01-12-2014
Dutch officials have detected a new case of bird flu at a poultry farm in the country's west. Dutch authorities have reported a new outbreak of bird flu on a western poultry farm.[subscribe] "Avian influenza has been detected on a poul Read More...
Ireland ready to follow Australia's plain cigarette packaging
Date of Posting: 01-12-2014
Ireland is ready to follow Australia's introduction of similar plain packaging for cigarettes. Ten years since setting a trend with its workplace smoking ban, Ireland is pushing ahead to be the first EU state with plain packaging for cigarette Read More...
Date of Posting: 01-12-2014
The latest figures from the World Health Organisation show more than 16,000 people have been infected with the Ebola virus and almost 7000 have died. More than 16,000 people have been infected with Ebola and nearly 7000 have died, according to the Read More...
Proposal for a primary screening tool: 'Keep your waist circumference to less than half your height'
Last Updated: 28-11-2014
There is now overwhelming scientific evidence that central obesity, as opposed to total obesity assessed by body mass index (BMI), is associated with the most health risks and that the waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) is a simple proxy for this central f Read More...
Social support moderates stress effects on depression
Date of Posting: 28-11-2014
This study examined the moderator effect of social support on the relationship between stress and depression of university students. A total of 632 undergraduate students completed the measures of perceived stress, perceived social support, and depre Read More...
Hangover 'cure' for binge-drinkers
Date of Posting: 28-11-2014
Rats given doses of alcohol designed to simulate binge-drinking in humans and then treated with a new drug, navigated a maze as well as sober rats. Scientists have developed the ultimate hangover cure - a drug that reduces the harmful effects of b Read More...
Metals in kids' diets a concern: expert
Date of Posting: 28-11-2014
Australian kids may be consuming high levels of potentially dangerous metals, a WA study has found. Australian kids may be consuming high levels of potentially dangerous metals in their food, a study shows.[subscribe] Researchers analysed 253 c Read More...
Novartis flu vax banned after deaths
Last Updated: 28-11-2014
Italy has banned a Novartis flu vaccine after three people who had received it died and a fourth was taken seriously ill. Italy has suspended the use of a flu vaccine made by Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis amid fears it may have caused three Read More...
Class of HIV drugs could prevent blindness
Date of Posting: 28-11-2014
A class of drugs developed to treat HIV could be useful in treating age-related macular degeneration, a disease that leads to progressive loss of vision. A class of 30-year-old HIV drugs could in future be used to prevent a common cause of incurab Read More...
Last Updated: 27-11-2014
Perioperative nurses provide care for patients in the period prior to and right after surgery or intervention procedures. Perioperative nursing encompasses a variety of specialty roles including holding bay, circulating, anaesthetic, Instrument Read More...
Last Updated: 27-11-2014
Swift medical attention has given cricketer Phil Hughes the best possible chance for a positive outcome, a top emergency doctor says. The CPR and excellent hospital care given to cricketer Phillip Hughes has given him the best possible chance of r Read More...
New year, new career for physiotherapy graduate
Date of Posting: 27-11-2014
Bianca Ferreira can’t wait to get moving on her physiotherapy career. The 23-year-old, who will graduate from the University of Sydney this year with her Masters in Physiotherapy, is now applying for positions in a bid to kick-start her care Read More...
Device could detect diabetes in breath
Date of Posting: 27-11-2014
A breath test is being designed to spot early signs of diabetes by detecting the smell of acetone, indicating the accumulation of ketones in the blood. A breathalyser device that can detect the "sweet smell" of diabetes in children is un Read More...
Obesity tie to 500,000 cancer cases a year
Date of Posting: 27-11-2014
In men, being overweight was blamed for 136,000 new cases, and in women, 345,000 cancer diagnoses, most of them of the colon, kidney and breast. Being overweight is now causing nearly half a million new cancer cases in adults every year, roughly 3 Read More...
Smartphone apps to detect blindness
Date of Posting: 27-11-2014
The Portable Eye Examination Kit consists of smartphone apps and an adapter which can be used anywhere in the world to test eyes easily. A smartphone device which healthcare workers can use to carry out eye examinations could help tackle blindness Read More...
Recovery from brain injury 'a marathon'
Date of Posting: 26-11-2014
Recovery from brain injury is a marathon, not a sprint, says an expert from Brain Injury Australia as cricketer Phillip Hughes fights for his life. Recovering from a brain injury is a marathon, says Brain Injury Australia spokesman Nick Rushworth, Read More...
Tropical fish helps TB researchers
Date of Posting: 25-11-2014
The transparent zebrafish develops the tuberculosis bug in the same way humans do and may help researchers develop new ways to treat the disease. The new weapon for Auckland researchers trawling through ways to treat tuberculosis is a small tropic Read More...
Brain training works in groups only: study
Last Updated: 24-11-2014
Brain training can boost memory and thinking skills but not when done alone at home, a study has found. Computer-based "brain training" is useful for older adults, but only if it's conducted in a group setting, research suggests.[sub Read More...
On-time operations or get it free: Qld
Last Updated: 24-11-2014
Patients in Queensland requiring surgery will be operated on within the medically recommended time or get it all free, says the health minister. Queensland's health minister has announced a guarantee that patients will receive their surgery wi Read More...
US town scraps bid to ban tobacco sales
Date of Posting: 21-11-2014
A bid to ban tobacco sales in a US town has been reversed. Health officials in a US town have voted to withdraw a proposal that would have made it the first in the country to ban all tobacco sales.[subscribe] Westminster's board of health v Read More...
Obesity costs hit $US2 trillion: report
Date of Posting: 21-11-2014
Obesity is costing 2.8 per cent of the global gross domestic product, or $US2 trillion, according to a McKinsey Global Institute report. A new report shows the global cost of obesity has risen to $US2 trillion ($A2.2 trillion) annually - nearly as Read More...
Video games help Parkinson's: researchers
Date of Posting: 21-11-2014
Game consoles like Nintendo Wii and Xbox Kinect have been found to aid symptoms of degenerative brain conditions. Computer consoles can help improve the lives of people with the neurological disease Parkinson's, researchers have found.[subscri Read More...
Oxygen may harm heart attack patients
Date of Posting: 20-11-2014
Giving oxygen to heart attack victims may cause additional damage to the heart, Ambulance Victoria says. Giving oxygen to heart attack victims may do more harm than good, a study suggests.[subscribe] Ambulance Victoria treated 440 patients - ha Read More...
Vic skin cancer warning for men
Date of Posting: 20-11-2014
New data shows Victorian men over 45 suffer melanoma at twice the rate of women in the same age group. Slip, slop, slap - and go to the doctor is Cancer Council Victoria's warning to men over 45.[subscribe] The latest data shows Victorian m Read More...
Qld now Australia's fattest state
Date of Posting: 20-11-2014
More than two-thirds of adults and a quarter of children in Queensland are overweight or obese, a new report says. Queenslanders are the fattest Australians.[subscribe] The Health of Queenslanders Report, released on Wednesday, shows two-thirds Read More...
Mental Health Assessments using a Bio-Psycho-Social-Cultural Model
Date of Posting: 19-11-2014
A patient’s mental health can be evaluated in two dimensions: 1) The absence of mental illness, and 2) The presence of a well-adjusted individual who is able to participate in society.[subscribe] A holistic assessment of a patient must con Read More...
Australians urged to curb antibiotic use
Date of Posting: 19-11-2014
The misuse and overuse of antibiotics can put you at risk due to antibiotic resistance. WHY WE MUST STOP OVER USING ANTIBIOTICS:[subscribe] * Overuse and misuse of antibiotics is increasing the problem of antibiotic resistance. * The more anti Read More...
Smoking banned in NSW national parks
Date of Posting: 17-11-2014
Smoking is to be banned in all 860 national parks in NSW, Environment Minister Rob Stokes has announced. Smoking is to be banned in NSW national parks, the state government has announced.[subscribe] Environment Minister Rob Stokes said the ban Read More...
8 dead in Portugal Legionnaire outbreak
Date of Posting: 17-11-2014
The death toll in a Legionnaire's disease outbreak in Portugal has climbed to eight, officials have announced. The death toll has climbed to eight in a Legionnaire's disease outbreak in Portugal which the World Health Organisation has call Read More...
Fewer Aussie teens getting suntans
Date of Posting: 17-11-2014
Fewer Australian teenagers are willing to bake themselves in the hot sun for the sake of a tan compared to 10 years ago, a Cancer Council survey has found. Getting a sun tan isn't as cool as it used it be among young Australians.[subscribe] Read More...
Doctors seeing more mental health problems
Last Updated: 14-11-2014
The number of visits to doctors by Australians seeking help with mental health problems is on the rise, according to a report. The number of Australians seeking help from GPs for mental health problems is on the rise, with depression and anxiety t Read More...
Health groups call for govt action on coal
Date of Posting: 14-11-2014
The Australian government is paying little attention to the health effects of the nation's reliance on coal, health organisations and unions warn. Australia's reliance on coal is making the population sick, health organisations and unions Read More...
Diabetes myths contribute to bullying
Date of Posting: 13-11-2014
Almost 50 per cent of those with type 1 diabetes have been bullied, with misunderstandings about the disease contributing to the problem. Writes Leah McLennan. [subscribe] If you think type 1 diabetes is brought on by guzzling too much suga Read More...
