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Homeopathy and Somatization Disorders [Interview][Transcript]

19 February 2016

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Guest: Dr. Kathy Gruver, Phd
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Kathy Gruver, PhD is an award-winning author and the host of the national TV show based on her first book, The Alternative Medicine Cabinet. She has earned her PhD in Natural Health and has authored five books, including Conquer Your Stress, and her latest book, Journey of Healing has already won three awards. She has studied mind/body medicine at the famed Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has been featured as an expert in numerous publications.

Segment overview: Dr. Kathy Gruver, Phd, discusses homeopathy in depth and physical and somatization disorders.

Therapeutic Massage, Reiki, and Stress Busting Techniques [Interview][Transcript]

19 February 2016

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Guest: Dr. Kathy Gruver, Phd
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Kathy Gruver, PhD is an award-winning author and the host of the national TV show based on her first book, The Alternative Medicine Cabinet. She has earned her PhD in Natural Health and has authored five books, including Conquer Your Stress, and her latest book, Journey of Healing has already won three awards. She has studied mind/body medicine at the famed Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has been featured as an expert in numerous publications.

Segment overview: Dr. Kathy Gruver, Phd, talks about therapeutic massage, Reiki, and stress busting techniques.

Journey of Healing [Interview][Transcript]

19 February 2016

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Guest: Dr. Kathy Gruver, Phd
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Kathy Gruver, PhD is an award-winning author and the host of the national TV show based on her first book, The Alternative Medicine Cabinet. She has earned her PhD in Natural Health and has authored five books, including Conquer Your Stress, and her latest book, Journey of Healing has already won three awards. She has studied mind/body medicine at the famed Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has been featured as an expert in numerous publications.

Segment overview: Dr. Kathy Gruver, Phd, discusses her latest book, Journey of Healing: One woman’s path to healing self and others (pub. July 2015), and why she wrote it.

The Health News – 19 February 2016

19 February 2016

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Overview:
• Child vaccination rates in parts of South Australian have improved more than anywhere else in the country, a new report suggests, but rates vary across the state and SA Health is not sure why.

• PlusLife, Western Australia’s only bone bank says it will be forced to close its doors within months if it cannot secure $10 million to relocate, it provides bone and tissue transplants to patients with bone cancer and arthritic diseases.

• In west Java, south-east of Jakarta, Indonesia poverty can be seen everywhere. In one local village, 70 per cent of people have no employment and spend their days scavenging through rubbish.

The Health News – 18 February 2016

18 February 2016

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Overview:
•A damning report into the West Australian Department of Health’s management of its computer systems has detailed a litany of mismanagement and waste, with the findings referred to the state’s corruption watchdog.

• A centre that uses art as a way of encouraging Indigenous women to access pregnancy health services has also revealed an alarming statistic when it comes to birth outcomes. The study is using women attending art classes at the Gomeroi Gaayngall maternal health care centres in Tamworth and Walgett in north-west NSW.

• More than 10 paramedics will need to be found to staff an ambulance shuttle service between two hospitals in Adelaide’s north from already stretched resources, the union says.

The Health News – 17 February 2016

17 February 2016

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Overview:
•The majority of parents who took their children to hospital emergency departments for less-urgent medical situations did not contact their GP first despite appointments being available, a new survey conducted by the University of Melbourne.• The majority of parents who took their children to hospital emergency departments for less-urgent medical situations did not contact their GP first despite appointments being available, a new survey conducted by the University of Melbourne.

• The administrators of a new Federal Government health program are touring regional Western Australia to collect feedback. The aim is to streamline the delivery of services by giving the not-for-profit ‘WA Primary Health Alliance’ responsibility for allocating funding across regional WA.

• The national regulator responsible for monitoring doctors has failed to do its job, Victoria’s Health Minister has said in the wake of the deaths of babies at Bacchus Marsh Hospital.

Providing Support to People with Coeliac Disease and those Requiring a Gluten Free Diet [Interview][Transcript]

16 February 2016

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Guest: Tom McLeod
Presenter: Wayne Bucklar
Guest Bio: Tom McLeod is the National President of Coeliac Australia. His professional background is in governance, risk and audit. He is a Chartered Accountant. He was previously the Head of Internal Audit at Rio Tinto and before that the General Manager, Audit and Fraud at SingTel Optus. He is now the co-founder of a boutique governance, risk, audit and fraud prevention consultancy called McLeod Governance. His “coeliac” background is that he was diagnosed about 13 years ago – he was having sharp pains in his stomach that would, literally, bring him to my knees. It was the inevitable visit to the doctor that started him on the journey to diagnosis. The diagnosis and my strict adherence to a gluten free diet has fundamentally and positively changed his health.

Segment overview: Coeliac Australia is a national not-for-profit association, comprising five state organisations supporting people with coeliac disease. Coeliac Australia provides a framework for the states to work together, share resources and fulfil its vision: To enhance the quality of life of people with coeliac disease and those medically diagnosed as requiring a gluten free diet for life and to support research towards a cure or other ethical forms of treatment. It was formed to provide a forum to promote the national welfare and uniformity of purpose and objectives of the state Coeliac organisations throughout Australia.

The Health News – 16 February 2016

16 February 2016

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Overview:
•Health and consumer advocates are calling for better labelling in Australia’s health supplement sector. It follows a reports of a Western Australian man who had an emergency liver transplant after taking a weight loss supplement. His doctors say most likely the culprit is the green tea extract, which has been linked to dozens of cases of liver damage around the world.

• Having Neanderthal DNA in your genes may increase the risk for depression, nicotine addiction, stroke, pregnancy complications and many other health problems, a new study at Vanderbilt University suggest.

• The rate of cancer diagnosis in Queensland has more than tripled in a 31-year period, the Cancer Council says. In 1982 a total of 8,274 cases were diagnosed and in 2013, this jumped to 26,335 cases. The increased rates were largely due to rise[s] in population and an aging community.

The Health News – 15 February 2016

15 February 2016

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• An Australian medical research team in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane are trialling a new Swedish technology that aimed at increasing the number of hearts available for transplant, hoping that the machine would double the length of time doctors had to transport hearts from a donor to a recipient. The trial will run over the next 12 months using sheep hearts.

• A New South Wales Labor MP, Jo Haylen has called for police to stop using sniffer dogs to target drug users, arguing it leads to overdoses and deaths.

• The redevelopment of The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne is back on track thanks to a $31.4 million funding package. Development started back in 2013, but the discovery of asbestos slowed construction and threatened the project.

Treatments for Managing Psoriatic Arthritis [Interview][Transcript]

12 February 2016

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Guest: Dr. Jason Faller
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Jason Faller, MD originates from Beaver Falls, PA. He attended the University of Pennsylvania for both his undergraduate and his medical school education. During his fellowship in rheumatology at the University of Michigan, he was granted a fellowship to study purine metabolism from American Rheumatism Association. He has been in private practice in New York City since 1982.

Segment overview: Dr. Jason Faller, MD, discusses treatments for managing psoriatic arthritis, PsA.