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Thursday, 20 June 2013

Australia are ready to unleash Israel Folau on the British and Irish Lions after the explosive wing completed the latest achievement of his remarkable sporting career. Just 12 months ago Folau was playing Australian rules football, but only after ending a spell in rugby league that saw him win seven caps for the Kangaroos and make five appearances for Queensland in the State of Origin. Now the elusive 24-year-old NSW Waratah will make his debut for the Wallabies at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday...

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Oregon Senate passes bill on vaccination education The News & Observer

SALEM, Ore. — A bill that is intended to persuade more Oregon parents to take their kids to doctors for shots and get over their mistrust of conventional medicine has taken a big step in the Legislature with passage by the state Senate. Oregon has the nation's highest rate of parents refusing...

Obese patients may trust diet advice more from heavy doctors The Los Angeles Times

If a doctor is going to tell a patient he’s obese and needs to lose weight, that patient seems more likely to trust the advice if the doctor is overweight too, scientists say. It might seem that patients want role models in their primary care doctors, but in matters of weight, that...

FDA grants priority review status to Gilead's hepatitis C drug Reuters

n">(Reuters) - Biotechnology company Gilead Sciences Inc said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted priority...

Not quite the ER: Boston hospital cleaning mummy STL Today

A 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy named Padihershef came out of his coffin Friday to go to the hospital. Well, actually, he had already been there for a while. The mummy has been on display at Massachusetts General Hospital, one of the nation's oldest, since it received him as a gift from the city of...

Hospital over budget, close to capacity, say doctors Canberra Times

Doctors at one of Sydney's top hospitals say emergency and resuscitation beds that are desperately needed for patient care are lying dormant because of funding shortfalls. Royal North Shore Hospital opened a building in December as part of a $1.1 billion redevelopment, but doctors say the hospital...

Global Response to AIDS Can Serve as Model for Other Global Threats 08/06/2013 Read more (IAS - International AIDS Society) noodls

(Source: IAS - International AIDS Society) The "unprecedented global response to AIDS" that began in the 2000s "can serve as a model for the response to other global health threats," write Peter Piot and Thomas Quinn in a New England Journal of Medicine review of the AIDS epidemic. The first decades...

Partner Violence Boosts HIV Rate 55% in Women of Rakai, Uganda 08/06/2013 Read more (IAS - International AIDS Society) noodls

(Source: IAS - International AIDS Society) Author: Mark Mascolini 08 June 2013 Sexually active women who endured intimate partner violence in Rakai, Uganda had a 55% higher rate of new HIV infection, according to results of a 10-year study. Intimate partner violence accounted for 22% of new HIV...

Mars rover Opportunity finds sign of 'water you could drink' The Los Angeles Times

NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has scraped away at some of the oldest rock it's examined and found the strongest signs for water it has ever discovered over its 9.5-year mission, scientists for the Mars Exploration Rover project said Friday. The scrappy little rover is now heading down...

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