2015年1月23日 星期五

2015-01-24 Australia Health


Sydney Morning Herald
   
How to stop your weekends making you fat   
Sydney Morning Herald
A week of relatively well-controlled eating quickly replaced with overeating, over drinking and basically overindulging until Monday morning. While there is nothing wrong with enjoying the weekend with plenty of good food, wine and company, a weekly ritual ...


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AsiaOne
   
Un-Australian? Aussies drinking 25% less than 40 years ago   
Foodprocessing
So much for the stereotype of the beer-swilling Aussie: research shows we're drinking a full 25% less alcohol than we did 40 years ago. While beer producers probably aren't happy about this, there is a definite upside: it has dramatically curbed ...

ALSA gets on front foot with facts on drinking habits   The Shout
Are we drinking less?   ABC Online (blog)
How other places tackle drinking   AsiaOne
3AW   
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Daily Mail
   
The DEATH test: Doctors' check list spots patients most at risk of dying within 30 ...   
Daily Mail
A test to identify those elderly patients most at risk of dying within 30 days has been developed by doctors. They say the test will give people the chance to go home and spend time saying goodbye to loved ones, preventing them from enduring their last days ...

Full checklist that makes up the 'death test'   Telegraph.co.uk
Checklist May Help Identify Patients for End-of-Life Care   Medscape
Doctors devise 29-point death checklist   6minutes
The Independent   
HealthCanal.com   
The Guardian   
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The Independent
   
Implantable device helps lower high blood pressure   
CBS News
Peter Hunt says life in his English village is more enjoyable now that he's found a way to keep his resistant high blood pressure under control. The 62-year-old is enrolled in a clinical trial to test out a tiny device which he had implanted in his upper thigh two ...

Study: New device to lower high blood pressure shows promise   WCAX
'Implantable' paperclip size device can significantly lower blood pressure   New Kerala
Device Lowers Blood Pressure Significantly   Laboratory Equipment
WTAJ   
BBC News   
The Australian (blog)   
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Oncology Nurse Advisor
   
Colorectal cancer incidence is increasing among young adults   
Oncology Nurse Advisor
Screening efforts have resulted in an overall decrease in incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC). However, incidence of the disease in young adults (ages 20-39 years) has increased in the past 20 to 30 years. Little is known about CRC incidence in young ...

Incidence of Colorectal Cancer Increasing in Young Adults   HealthCanal.com
Colorectal cancer occurs frequently in young adults   helpmeoutDOC News - A consistent flow of medical news

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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Why private health insurance is so expensive, and what can be done about it   
Sydney Morning Herald
Health insurance premiums to surge. For private health insurance customers who cannot understand why their premiums are set to rise at triple the rate of inflation, the experience of CUA Health may shed some light. The fast-growing health fund just paid out ...

Meeting with Ley 'very good', says AMA   6minutes
Private health insurance increase 'couldn't come at a worst time'   Illawarra Mercury
Medicare levy rise fairer – Democrats   Sunraysia Daily
Business Insider Australia   
Newcastle Herald   
The Australian   
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Pioneer News
   
Study Demonstrates Benefit of Video Therapy On Autism Risk In Babies   
Pioneer News
A new study has observed that video-based therapy could reduce risk for developing autism in babies who are born at risk for the condition. Jonathan Green, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry with the University of Manchester, in England, says, ...

Video-based therapy may benefit babies at risk for autism   Examiner.com
'Innovative' intervention helps babies at high risk of autism   Fox News
Video Feedback May Help Babies At Risk for Autism   Tech Times
ABC Online   
Huffington Post   
Doctors Lounge   
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Do sexually transmitted ailments drive variation in mammalian immunity   
National Gazette
It has been assumed that the increased transmission of sexually-transmitted illnesses in the case of mating promiscuity is influential in shaping the immune program of mammals. Outcomes published in the scientific journal Functional Ecology this week ...


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Cancer drugs driving PBS cost blowout   
The Border Mail
SUBSIDIES for high-cost cancer drugs are growing faster than for other medicines, an analysis shows. Chemotherapy costs rose from $84 million in 2009-10 to $586 million last financial year, a parliamentary paper shows. An annual 63 per cent growth in the ...

Cost of cancer drugs rises sharply to $586 million   Sydney Morning Herald

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Los Angeles Times
   
Ebola vaccine heads to Liberia for tests even as crisis eases   
Los Angeles Times
The first 300 doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine were headed for Liberia on Friday, but health authorities say the West African nation may already have turned the corner on slowing the outbreak of the deadly disease. Although the vaccine was ...

Liberia to Receive First Batch of Experimental Ebola Vaccine   Newsweek
First batch of Ebola vaccine set to arrive in Liberia   Al Jazeera America
Ebola vaccine set for trial in West Africa   Aljazeera.com
TIME   
Reuters   
BBC News   
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