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Look mum, no mouth

Health: The Pulse - 24 April 2008
The kiss of life isn't as important as chest compressions in resuscitating someone with a cardiac arrest, say American experts.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, heart-disease, medical-procedures

Look mum, no mouth

Health: The Pulse - 24 April 2008
The kiss of life is less important than chest compressions in resuscitating someone with a cardiac arrest, say American experts. But Australian experts are not so sure.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, heart-disease, medical-procedures

Risk factors for hip fracture

Health Minutes - 17 April 2008
A study of 93,000 women identified ten risk factors for hip fracture, with old age at the top of the list.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, osteoporosis, older-people, womens-health

Sports injuries: how to prevent them

Health: Features - 05 March 2008
Don't let injuries cut your sporting season short - simple steps can keep you going strong.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, exercise-and-fitness

Danger under the Xmas tree

Health: The Pulse - 20 December 2007
Some toys are safe to give kids this Christmas, others aren't. How do you tell?

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, child-health-and-behaviour

I'm here to sting you

Health: The Pulse - 11 October 2007
Beach season is around the corner, but beware of the stings, bites and stabbings below the waves. An expert offers some first aid tips.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, pain, skin

Do-it-yourself injury

Health: The Pulse - 02 August 2007
Falls from ladders, lacerations from power grinders and saws; do-it-yourself renovation can be a dangerous pastime.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents

Kids too small for adult seatbelts

Health: The Pulse - 05 July 2007
Children can be injured in car accidents if, as commonly happens, they're wearing a seatbelt designed for an adult.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, child-health-and-behaviour

Whiplash injury; how severe?

Health Minutes - 01 May 2007
Around 30 per cent of car accidents result in a whiplash injury to the neck. Australian researchers have found the factors that predict how serious it will be.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, bones-and-muscles

Driving with a plaster cast

Health Minutes - 01 May 2007
A Queensland study has found that too many people drive with a fractured arm in a plaster cast.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, occupational-health-and-safety

Salt OK for health

Health Minutes - 12 December 2006
A study questions the value of a low salt diet - and suggests it might even be harmful.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, diet-and-nutrition, hypertension

Could teen driving contracts save lives?

Health: The Pulse - 07 December 2006
Fatalities involving young drivers have jumped in NSW. One solution might be for teens to agree to a written contract with parents setting out rules for safe driving.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, adolescent-health

Whiplash injury; how severe?

Health Minutes - 21 November 2006
Around 30 per cent of car accidents result in a whiplash injury to the neck. Australian researchers have found the factors that predict how serious it will be.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, bones-and-muscles

Driving with a plaster cast

Health Minutes - 21 November 2006
A Queensland study has found that too many people drive with a fractured arm in a plaster cast.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, occupational-health-and-safety

650,000 dead in Iraq

Health Minutes - 14 November 2006
The Lancet reports that a survey of nearly 2000 households in Iraq reveals the human cost of the war to be about 650,000 civilian deaths.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, medical-research

Danger: kids and shopping

Health: The Pulse - 07 September 2006
Supermarket trolleys and escalators are a leading cause of injuries in kids under the age of five. How can we avoid them?

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, child-health-and-behaviour

Kids and road injuries

Health: The Pulse - 08 June 2006
Pedestrian accidents are the leading cause of death among one to 14-year-olds in Australia, say researchers - and we need to get the numbers down.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, adolescent-health, child-health-and-behaviour

Hip protectors; benefits uncertain

Health Minutes - 20 March 2006
Hip protectors are often used to reduce the impact of falls in the elderly - but the evidence that they do much good is lacking.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, osteoporosis, older-people

Salt OK for health

Health Minutes - 14 March 2006
A study questions the value of a low salt diet - and suggests it might even be harmful.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, diet-and-nutrition

Working shifts in the Land of Nod

Health: The Pulse - 05 May 2005
Shift work is on the rise in many industries. But the resulting fatigue impacts badly on shift workers' health.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, sleep-disorders, occupational-health-and-safety

Saving lives with speed cameras

Health Minutes - 23 March 2005
There's no doubt that speed kills. But is it speed cameras on our roadsides or the safety campaigns that accompany them that reduce injuries and deaths?

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, health-policy

Grey nomads go unprepared

Health: The Pulse - 17 March 2005
Every winter, thousands of older Australians hit the road and head north, escaping the colder months to follow the sun. But many aren't prepared for the lack of medical services in the bush.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, older-people, pharmaceuticals, rural

Brighten up to reduce motorbike accidents

Health Minutes - 28 April 2004
If you are going to ride a motorbike, research from New Zealand suggests that changing your dress sense might save your life.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents

Vaseline no treatment for burns

Health Minutes - 09 December 2003
A warning about the use of Vaseline in the first aid treatment of burns has been given in a letter to the British Medical Journal.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, child-health-and-behaviour, skin

Elderly drivers and dementia

Health Minutes - 07 October 2003
Swedish researchers have discovered that a high proportion of elderly people involved in car crashes have thinking and memory problems.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, alzheimers-and-dementia

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