Health
Face identification accuracy impaired by poor sleep
It is often necessary to identify unfamiliar people by comparing face images: for example a CCTV image to a mugshot, or a passport photograph to a traveller.
Oct 6, 2016
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Finding momentary pleasure—how viewing art can help people with dementia
The symptoms of dementia take on different forms and vary from person to person. Long before diagnosis, individuals and their family and friends may notice changes in behaviour, mood, and cognitive and physical functioning.
Sep 14, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Prisons could unlock hep C-free future
Prisons provide one of the most significant opportunities to drive down the prevalence of hepatitis C, and help reach global WHO elimination goals, says new research presented at the 5th International Symposium on Hepatitis ...
Sep 8, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Travelling overseas? Get immunised to prevent measles outbreaks in Australia
Unimmunised travellers visiting family and friends overseas remain the biggest source of measles outbreaks in Australia, according to new research by the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
Aug 3, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
'Managing' elderly patients without powerful antipsychotics
(HealthDay)—About 25 percent of dementia patients in U.S. nursing homes are still quieted with risky antipsychotic medications. Now, a small study suggests that managing these difficult patients, instead of medicating them, ...
Jul 26, 2016
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Immunology
Malnutrition, shaping up to be a first world problem
Australian researchers have discovered that a bad diet has consequences on your immune system even before you notice an increase in body weight.
Jul 18, 2016
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Health
Prisons need better drug treatment programs to control infectious diseases
Worldwide, around 30 million people enter and leave prison each year. Of these people, around 4.5 million have hepatitis C, almost 1 million have HIV and 1.5 million have hepatitis B infections.
Jul 15, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers map molecular 'social networks' that drive breast cancer cells
A powerful new technology that maps the "social network" of proteins in breast cancer cells is providing detailed understanding of the disease at a molecular level and could eventually lead to new treatments, Australian scientists ...
Jul 14, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Docs tending away from post-prostatectomy adjuvant RT
(HealthDay)—Compared with 2012, in 2015 urologists based in Australia were less favorable toward adjuvant radiotherapy for men with high-risk pathologic features post-prostatectomy, according to a study published online ...
Jul 8, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Lip cancer risk up for some solid organ transplant recipients
(HealthDay)—For solid organ transplant recipients, azathioprine dose and duration of immunosuppression are associated with increased risk of lip cancer, according to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of ...
May 24, 2016
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