US First Lady Melania Trump has been admitted to hospital and has undergone surgery to treat a benign kidney condition. A statement was released by the White House on Monday afternoon, stating: “This morning, First Lady Melania Trump underwent an embolization procedure to treat a benign kidney condition. The procedure was successful and there were no complications.”
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Six Weeks of NO WHEAT [Interview][Transcript]
Guest: Cyndi O’Meara
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Cyndi O’Meara is a nutritionist, bestselling author, international speaker and founder of Changing Habits. Cyndi graduated with a BSc majoring in Nutrition from Deakin University in 1984, her special interest was ancestral foods. At the end of her degree she was so disillusioned by the nutritional guidelines that she paved her own path and stayed clear of the low fat diets of the day, and not without controversy.
Segment overview: Cyndi O’Meara, nutritionist and co-director of the recent documentary, “What’s With Wheat – The Truth They Don’t Want You To Know!”, author of the book “Changing Habits Changing LIves” (1998) and founder of Changing Habits talks about the ‘6 Weeks No Wheat’ program and other services and products available at www.changinghabits.com.au
The Health News – 30 January 2014
Overview
- Scientists at the Queensland University of Technology have discovered two key enzymes that make ovarian cancer resistant to chemotherapy.
- In QLD the federal candidate for Griffith has effectively retracted his support for a General Practitioner co-payment for Medicare ahead of the seat’s by-election.
- In South Australia, the opposition have made a pre-election promise to build a palliative care facility at Port Pirie Hospital, but the current government says they have significantly underestimated the cost.
- The South Australian Government says a new mobile dialysis truck will provide a better level of service to Aboriginal kidney disease patients in South Australia’s outback.
Synchrony – Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Costs
Greg Pierce, SVP and GM of Specialty, Health & Wellness at Synchrony, a financial services company, discusses the over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids ruling, ways to find and pay an audiologist who can ensure the patient has the right hearing aid for their needs, and how consumers can utilize Synchrony’s network of 260,000 providers (and their 90-year expertise in financing) to ease the path they’ll take in receiving the hearing care they need.
The Health News – 14 February 2014
Overview
- Prime Minister Tony Abbott is being pushed to give full disclosure of when he and his office were informed of a possible conflict-of-interest involving Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash’s chief-of-staff.
- The Australian Medical Association has released its annual Public Hospital Report Card, which shows that many public hospitals are failing to adequately meet public demand and performance targets.
- A Freedom of Information request has revealed a mass resignation of nurses at the Alice Springs Sexual Assault Referral Centre.
- The outgoing under treasurer Tim Marney has revealed Treasury was only given two weeks to scrutinise a multi-billion dollar contract for the Fiona Stanley Hospital.
The Health News – 26 February 2014
Overview
- In QLD, over 300 health workers and supporters gathered outside Cairns hospital in protest of the state government’s plans to put senior doctors on individual work contracts.
- Also in QLD, Townsville MP Ewen Jones has spoken out about the planned federal rollout of a nutritional rating and labelling system for food.
- In Western Australia, the state opposition have said they’ve found further evidence that the state government misled the public about the progress of Fiona Stanley Hospital leading up to the election in March.
The Health News USA March 21 2018
- Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant has just signed into law a bill that prevents women from getting abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. His state, effective immediately, now holds the distinction of having the earliest abortion ban in the nation. Also known as the Gestational Age Act, Mississippi’s new law makes exceptions only for medical emergencies or cases in which there’s a “severe fetal abnormality.” There are no exceptions for incidents of rape or incest.
- This spring, the National Institutes of Health will start recruiting participants for one of the most ambitious medical projects ever envisioned. The goal is to find 1 million people in the United States, from all walks of life and all racial and ethnic groups, who are willing to have their genomes sequenced, and to provide their medical records and regular blood samples. the project, called the All of Us Research Program, should provide new insights into who gets sick and why, and how to prevent and treat chronic diseases. In 2017 alone, the budget for All of Us was $230 million, of which $40 million came from the 21st Century Cures Act. Congress has authorized an astounding $1.455 billion over 10 years for the project.
The couple had been together for more than 5 years, and had discussed freezing Gary’s sperm in late 2014, due to his age and fear of early death. - The latest effort to come up with a male birth control pill has found a formulation that appears to be safe. But the experimental pill has at least one of the same problems that plague female birth control pills: it caused the men to gain weight. It’s also not yet clear how well it works. The pill that was tested is called dimethandrolone undecanoate (DMAU) and it‘s tweaked version of previous failed efforts to develop a male pill. It is being developed with funding from the National Institutes of Health.