Author: healthprofessionalradio

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• If the Australian Government warns its citizens not to travel to the United States without private health insurance, imagine what it is like for those who live there without it.

• Diabetes research at the University of Newcastle could have a significant impact on the use of nutrition to treat one of the symptoms of the disease.

• Two children have been stung by the potentially deadly Irukandji jellyfish in what are believed to be the first incidents of the season in Western Australia.
  

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• The World Health Organisation’s Ebola expert, Dr Boris Pavlin said health quarantine officers from Papua New Guinea’s Department of Health are meeting every international flight to check declaration forms to identify passengers who have travelled from West Africa.

• Health advocates have warned e-cigarettes are being taken up by young people rather than helping long-term smokers to quit.

• Rescuers in New Zealand have officially called off their search for an Australian and two other climbers who are presumed dead after going missing on Mount Cook.

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• It has been one of the biggest stories of 2014 and it does not look like it is going anywhere. The Ebola crisis in West Africa has killed thousands of people and it will continue to do so in 2015.

• Last year’s flu season in South Australia was the worst on record, according to the State Government. More than 11,000 cases were recorded, which is double the average and the highest number since records began in 2008.

• Bad luck plays a major role in determining who gets cancer and who does not, according to researchers who say two-thirds of cancers of various types can be blamed on random mutations and not heredity or risky habits like smoking.

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• AMA President, A/Prof Brian Owler, today urged all Australians to take special care on the nation’s roads this holiday season to reduce the risk of car and other vehicle accidents.

• Scientists are concerned that the Federal Government is compromising future trade opportunities by abolishing animal health committees.

• Increasing demand for Botox and tummy tucks in regional areas has prompted cosmetic surgeons to offer fly-in fly-out services to country towns.The cosmetic medicine industry is booming in Australia, with some the uptake of some procedures increasing 15% per year.

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• AMA President, A/Prof Brian Owler, today congratulated all Indigenous medical graduates around the country, with special mention to Murray Haar and Gemma Johnston, both recipients of the AMA Indigenous Peoples’ Medical Scholarship.

• A male nurse has been charged over an alleged double murder at a Newcastle nursing home more than a year ago.

• Cambodian health authorities say more than 80 people – including children and the elderly – who tested positive for HIV/AIDS in a single remote village may have been infected by contaminated needles.

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• Public Christmas celebrations have been banned in Sierra Leone where spiralling cases of Ebola infections continue to spread alarm.

• A team of researchers from Australia, Vietnam and London have discovered an antibody that neutralises all four forms of the potentially deadly virus, including one carried by mosquitoes.

• A food-additive designed to make people feel fuller has been tested by UK and Australian clinicians in London, and shown to be effective at preventing weight gain in overweight volunteers.

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• A $13 million aeromedical base for the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) including a new medical precinct where all members of retrieval services will eventually be based will be built at Adelaide Airport.

• A Perth mother has told a coronial inquest into her toddler’s death she would never forgive herself for not insisting he be admitted to hospital after the family was twice sent home.

• Unions and the Tasmanian Government are blaming each other for a disability support provider going into voluntary administration.