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2013/05/23 19:54
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Most modern human mothers wean their babies much earlier than our closest primate relatives. But what about our extinct relatives, the Neanderthals? A team of U.S. and Australian researchers reports...
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2013/05/22 22:55
2013/05/22 22:55
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The world's fattest country, if measured by Body Mass Index (BMI) is Kuwait, according to the Mail Online. With an average of 29.5 they are well above what's considered healthy. "A healthy BMI for an...
2013/05/22 00:34
2013/05/22 00:34
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Julie Leask and Hal Willaby write: The proposal stems from a public outcry about vaccination rates arising from profound levels of support that most Australians have for vaccination. This support is...
2013/05/20 20:17
2013/05/20 20:17
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Newswise — A study by Alexandra L. C. Martiniuk, M.Sc, Ph.D., of The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, Australia, and colleagues suggests less sleep per night is associated with a...
2013/05/20 17:55
2013/05/20 17:55
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In a statement to the media Harrison says: "Immune suppression by CD52 is a previously undiscovered mechanism that the body uses to regulate itself, and protect itself against excessive or damaging...
2013/05/20 00:34
2013/05/20 00:34
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Crikey journalist Amber Jamiesonrecently reported that the National Health and Medical Research Council is examining whether anti-wind farm campaigner Sarah Laurie has breached ethical codes of...
2013/05/19 14:08
2013/05/19 14:08
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Keep good vision in your sights by eating the right foods, says nutritionist Nicole Senior. Seeing an optometrist is recommended if you feel your vision changing. Correcting vision problems with...
2013/05/17 09:11
2013/05/17 09:11
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Two blue chip Sydney PR operatives that represented the Exclusive Brethren, Scientology and James Hardie have sailed into a bitter fight over a $2 billion wind farm development on King Island. Wells...
2013/05/15 23:48
2013/05/15 23:48
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AUSTRALIAN of the Year Ita Buttrose has lashed out at the Government for not providing adequate investment in dementia research in the Budget. Speaking at the Alzheimer's Australia conference in...
2013/05/15 17:42
2013/05/15 17:42
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The finding could provide a niche for developing antimalarial drugs and vaccines that prevent or treat the disease by cutting these communication networks. Professor Alan Cowman, Dr Neta...
2013/05/13 10:34
2013/05/13 10:34
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Alarm bells are ringing right around the world on climate change (see some of the most recent examples at the bottom of this post). But does the health and medical research sector have its thumbs...
2013/05/13 07:18
2013/05/13 07:18
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THE South Pacific kava plant could be an effective and safe treatment for anxiety, according to research by Australian scientists. Anxiety, or excessive worrying, is the most common psychological...
2013/05/13 01:25
2013/05/13 01:25
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Who would want be the health minister? If anyone is considering the job, they should watch the recent episode of ABC TV’s Q&A when Commonwealth Minister for Health Tanya Plibersek and the Shadow...
2013/05/11 00:26
2013/05/11 00:26
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Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), is the most common personality disorder and one of the most stigmatised mental disorders, yet it is not seen as a serious, legitimate mental illness. Erin...
2013/05/09 21:15
2013/05/09 21:15
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A drug to help cystic fibrosis patients and others who suffer chronic bacterial infections is a step closer to reality after a major breakthrough at the University of Wollongong. Dr Mike Kelso, from...
2013/05/09 16:49
2013/05/09 16:49
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More than 85 percent of those who enrolled in the trial completed treatment -- almost three times the usual retention rate. After eight months of outpatient treatment, patients in both treatment...
2013/05/07 20:27
2013/05/07 20:27
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Wind sickness doctor fronts Senate inquiry environment reporter Sarah Clarke A doctor who pioneered a controversial study into what she calls "wind turbine syndrome" has told a Senate inquiry that...
2013/05/07 18:16
2013/05/07 18:16
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Researchers at the University of Wollongong and University of NSW have patented a new approach to treating antibiotic-resistant infections. In ground-breaking work funded by the Australian National...
2013/05/07 04:55
2013/05/07 04:55
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A new drug treatment that can switch off a key gene involved in skin cancer has been developed and tested in a world-first trial on Sydney patients. The first-ever human trials of the drug, called...
2013/05/04 15:06
2013/05/04 15:06
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CLUCKY couples are taking overseas ''sex tours'' - to choose their baby's gender using IVF in foreign fertility clinics. Global Health Travel is offering baby sex-selection trips to Thailand and...