Author: healthprofessionalradio

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• In a competitive world, some parents are prepared to do whatever it takes to give their child an academic edge, even if it means zapping their young brains with an electrical current.

• AMA Vice President, Dr Stephen Parnis, said the new Position Statement outlines the appropriate considerations in taking a palliative approach to the care and management of patients who reside in residential aged care facilities.

• The Indian government has launched the country’s first air quality index amid growing concern over the impact of air pollution on public health.

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• The Australian environment may be causing genetic changes and making people more susceptible to allergies such as hayfever, new research has found.

• The Federal Opposition is pushing for a national inquiry into the education of children with a disability in schools following revelations a Canberra student with autism was held in a cage.

• While Easter is traditionally a time of feasting, Tasmanians are being warned it is time to change old habits and start eating healthily and moving more.
  

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• France’s lower house of parliament has passed a law that bans the use of excessively thin fashion models and imposes possible jail sentences on companies that hire them.

• In a move worth $300 million, mental health services will have their funding renewed for a further 12 months.

• Australian pharmaceutical companies are concerned they may lose their place in the industry as advocates claim billions of dollars are being lost to overseas markets and figures show exports have slumped by more than 30 per cent since 2012.

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• Ice addiction is overtaking alcohol as the biggest problem facing Indigenous populations, the head of a rehabilitation centre specialising in treatment for Aboriginal people says.

• People are too often placing undue emphasis on factors like stress and pollution as causes of cancer ahead of real risks like drinking and obesity, Cancer Council NSW says.

• Victoria’s Emergency Management Commissioner says he is satisfied with the time it has taken the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to alert residents to air pollution.

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• While Easter is traditionally a time of feasting, Tasmanians are being warned it is time to change old habits and start eating healthily and moving more.

• Ross River virus cases hit 20-year high in Queensland, health officials urge precaution against mosquitoes.

• High levels of homophobia among teenage boys are harming the mental health of young gay people and putting them at risk of suicide, according to a study commissioned by beyondblue.

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• The Victorian Government says it expects an independent monitor examining health concerns near Heathcote, in central Victoria, will ease the public’s anxiety about a local mine.

• Western Australia’s chief psychiatrist will review five suicides of serving and former ambulance paramedics and volunteers over five years to see if there is any link between the cases.

• Australia’s key health organisations say thousands of people needing vital drug and alcohol services will be turned away unless an urgent funding crisis is resolved.

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• Free whooping cough vaccinations for pregnant women in Western Australia have been approved after the death of a four-week-old baby earlier this month.

• Police have fired tear gas at an angry crowd in Sierra Leone after they threw stones at officials during a three-day national lockdown that the government hopes will accelerate the end of the Ebola epidemic, residents said.

• Australian researchers have found that so-called ‘triple-negative breast cancers are two distinct diseases that likely originate from different cell types. This helps explain why survival prospects for women with the diagnosis tend to be either very good or very bad.