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Monday 06 October 2008
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Fever is a normal part of childhood illness and affects a large number of pre-school children. Researchers in the UK have investigated the effect of paracetamol plus ibuprofen in treating childhood fever.
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Our backs and joints are seen as engineering wonders. Unfortunately, they give us lots of problems as well. Dr Tom Oxland is Professor of Orthopaedics and Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and he specialises in back injuries.
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A report which has just been released by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians has expressed major concern about the spiralling use of opioid medications - morphine-like drugs - for people with pain not due to cancer.
Monday 29 September 2008
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A report has been released in early September which reveals serious stress and health problems suffered by Australia's truck drivers. The findings of the Health Survey of the New South Wales Transport Industry have major implications for road safety throughout the country.
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Researchers from Spain and the U.S. have investigated the association of arsenic exposure with the prevalence of type 2 diabetes.
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Lead, mercury and arsenic have been detected in substantial proportions of Indian-manufactured traditional Ayurvedic medicines. Researchers in the U.S. have investigated this and compared the prevalence of toxic metals in the U.S. vs Indian-manufactured medicines.
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Australian scientists have made a discovery which could help doctors decide which women with breast cancer will benefit from anti-oestrogen therapies, and which will not.
Monday 22 September 2008
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An Australian study shows links between circumcision and reduced HIV acquisition among homosexual men and other research looks at the relationship between HIV viral load and infectiousness.
A large number of drug users also experience mental health problems and many people who suffer from mental illness are drug users. Treatment services for these people have been quite inadequate and there is a need to improve these services substantially.
Monday 15 September 2008
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Last week in the New England Journal of Medicine research was published that investigated the efficacy of arthroscopic surgery for the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee.
Some research suggests that foetal exposure to magnesium sulfate before preterm birth might reduce the risk of cerebral palsy. A recent study investigated this claim.
A major report from the Commission on Social Determinants on Health has just been handed to the World Health Organisation.
Monday 08 September 2008
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Depression and heart disease are two leading disorders which add to the global burden of disease. Several large-scale studies have investigated whether treatment of depression improves prognosis after heart attack.
A study recently published in the British Journal of Psychiatry showed that the rate of homicide due to mentall illness has fallen steadily in the UK after the late 1970s. According to this study the risk of lethal violence by a person with schizophrenia who has received adequate treatment is not much higher than the community as a whole and the period of greatest risk is before initial treatment.
According to general practitioners and other health professionals, it is often difficult to get expert psychiatric help needed for a patient. In the Canadian province of Ontario they've developed a program to overcome this problem.
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