Author: healthprofessionalradio

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• The Automated External Defibrillator Deployment Agency has launched a new set of guidelines in an effort to stop flat batteries and software malfunctions in the units.

• Some people may retain awareness after they have technically died, according to a study into hospital patients who went into deep cardiac arrest.

• Anglo-American John O’Keefe and Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser have won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Medicine for discovering the brain’s internal positioning system, helping humans find their way and giving clues to how strokes and Alzheimer’s affect the brain.

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• Scientists led by Dr Glen Boyle, from the QIMR Berghofer medical research institute have been surprised by the rapid cancer-fighting properties of a berry found only in Far North Queensland.

• The New South Wales Health department found there would be an increase of 500,000 people visiting the state’s emergency departments if a $6 GP copayment was enforced.

• AS Aussie teens get back to school for this year’s final term, for some the most important in their education, it is clear this generation is different. Some kids are clean-cut, others scruffy, the variety of the student outfit an eternal hallmark of Australian schooling. But, as we approach 2015, most teens now accessorise with a mobile device, using social media to converse with their peers and the world, round the clock.

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• Sydney-based biotech company Regeneus offering stem cell treatments to injured athletes is under fire for talking up the AFL’s “approval” of its procedure and allegedly misleading the stock exchange.

• A Spanish nurse who treated two Ebola patients at a Madrid hospital is thought to be the first person to have contracted the virus outside Africa.

• Couples in the Central West are being encouraged to participate in a trial which provides a $200 subsidy for couples to use in strengthening their relationship.

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• Hay fever sufferers in Melbourne may be breathing a little easier this spring as some of the city’s trees are injected with hormones in a bid to make them less irritating.

• There is a 75% chance the Ebola virus could reach Europe before the end of the month, scientists have predicted.

• Being curious fires up the brain’s reward circuits, enhancing your ability to learn, MRI scans reveal. The finding, reported in the journal Neuron, provides the first scientific evidence to help explain why it is easier learn about something that you’re interested in.

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• In East Africa, ritual magic, witchcraft and superstition play a large part in the everyday life of many people. One of the darkest elements of the cultural practice includes the lucrative trade of body parts of people with albinism who are outcast and believed to be cursed.

• A 36-year-old Swedish woman has become the world’s first to give birth after receiving a womb transplant, medical journal The Lancet says.

• Mental Health Week is a national event, held in October to coincide with World Mental Health Day (10 October). It’s an opportunity to promote awareness about mental health and wellbeing, and equip people with the right information.

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• Tobacco giant British American has been lobbying the Therapeutic Goods Administration to introduce an electronic cigarette into Australia, describing it as a “medicine”.

• Prominent Australians including the Prime Minister are depicted on dialysis in a Darwin exhibition about the escalating rate of kidney disease among Aboriginal people.

• Repeated reassurances from a community midwife led a woman to choose a home birth over the hospital delivery recommended by a doctor, an inquest into the baby’s death has heard.

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• A man who became infected with Ebola in Liberia and travelled to Texas is the first confirmed case of the deadly virus in the United States, health officials have confirmed.

• A mother whose 10-year-old son suffers from a rare form of epilepsy has backed a de-registered doctor’s drive to treat the condition with medical cannabis.

• AMA Vice President, Dr Stephen Parnis, said … that hard-fought investment in Australia’s future medical workforce was being wasted as State and Territory Governments fail to provide sufficient intern places for Australian medical graduates.

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• A woman who was allegedly stalked by a man who went on to start a deadly nursing home fire has given evidence at an inquest in Sydney.

• The Grattan Institute’s Dying Well report found 70 per cent of Australians want to die in their homes but only 14 per cent do, with half dying in hospital and a third in residential care.

• Researchers at the University of Sydney are working on a new program to help support young people whose parents have been diagnosed with cancer.

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• Humans have evolved different defences against malaria depending on where they live, scientists have found.

• Allies should be strengthening the voice of people with disability by speaking up alongside us, not simulating disability in a tokenistic fashion and raising money for charities, writes Stella Young.

• In the final 2014 Boyer Lecture, Professor Suzanne Cory addressed Australia’s other brain drain—the lack of women at science’s highest levels. The former head of the Australian Academy of Science says we need to engage girls early and make room for female scientists to have families.

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• The CSIRO’s new research vessel Investigator is unable to access shore power in Hobart and is running off the ship’s engines.

• Scientists at the University of Rochester in New York have discovered a way to hide large objects from sight using inexpensive and readily available lenses.

• Finance Minister Mathias Cormann announced the Federal Government would soon begin a national advertising campaign to promote the pre-registration process of the share offer which could generate up to $4 billion.