News tagged with australians
Major shortfalls in medical best practice: Australian study
(Medical Xpress) -- Australians receive “appropriate” health care in only 57 per cent of consultations, according the first ever national snapshot of the quality of clinical care in Australia.
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Jul 16, 2012 |
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Australians work too hard: expert
(Medical Xpress) -- Overwork is significantly impacting the mental health and wellbeing of Australians, a Flinders University labour studies expert warns.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 28, 2012 |
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Study highlights significant dairy shortfall
(Medical Xpress) -- Australian researchers have called for a focus on public health interventions that increase dairy food consumption following a new study published this week.
Health
Jun 08, 2012 |
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Bariatric surgery works, we just need to ensure it's safe
Around 2.6 million Australians are obese. Obesity causes contribute to diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, obstructive sleep apnoea, infertility, depression and cancer. The strength of the causal ...
Surgery
Jun 08, 2012 |
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We are drinking too much water: expert
Our bodies need about two litres of fluids per day, not two litres of water specifically. In an Editorial in the June issue of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Spero Tsindos from La Trobe University, examin ...
Health
Jun 05, 2012 |
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Taking a muscular approach towards diabetes and other diseases
Australian scientists have identified a gene that regulates muscle size, a finding that could help unlock therapies for Type 2 diabetes and diseases such as muscular dystrophy, where muscles are weakened and ...
Genetics
May 30, 2012 |
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Where not to have a heart attack in Australia
(Medical Xpress) -- Every single town in Australia has been rated on its proximity to cardiac care, before and after a heart attack, in a new report published in Circulation and headed by Queensland University of Technology (QUT). ...
Cardiology
May 30, 2012 |
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A solution to a life-threatening allergy
For around one in 100 Australians who have food allergy, simply ingesting a small amount of pasta containing shellfish can be life-threatening.
Immunology
May 11, 2012 |
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Researchers set out to profile the nip, tuck, travel phenomenon
(Medical Xpress) -- An estimated 50 Australians a month are travelling to Malaysia for cosmetic surgery and researchers would like to know more about them as part of ground-breaking international study of ...
Other
May 08, 2012 |
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When too much sun is not enough
(Medical Xpress) -- Lupus patients show more severe symptoms of the disease if their vitamin D levels are low, an Australian-first study has found.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 07, 2012 |
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Potential gene therapy for patients with rare disease
Australian scientists have discovered that a biological phenomenon known as ‘somatic reversion’, when an abnormal gene spontaneously becomes normal again, explains why some patients with a rare genetic ...
Medical research
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Scientists unlock cause of congenital birth defects
Australian scientists have discovered for the first time how nature and nurture combine to increase the risk for women of giving birth to a baby with congenital defects, according to a study published today.
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Apr 06, 2012 |
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New thinking needed on quad-bike deaths: Australian study
The current logic surrounding the effectiveness of crush protection devices in preventing deaths and injuries caused by quad-bikes on farms, is flawed, according to new research.
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Mar 28, 2012 |
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Preventing the distress and pain of lymphoedema
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from the University of Sydney, together with Royal North Shore Hospital and the University of Queensland, have announced the largest study yet performed into early clinical ...
Cancer
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Men respond more aggressively than women to stress and it's all down to a single gene
The pulse quickens, the heart pounds and adrenalin courses through the veins, but in stressful situations is our reaction controlled by our genes, and does it differ between the sexes? Australian scientists, writing in BioEssays, believ ...
Genetics
Mar 07, 2012 |
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