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Children 'as young as six' among growing number damaging knees in sport
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Doctors, physiotherapists and sports injury experts say they are seeing a rise in the number of children having knee surgery, with some suggesting kids' sports becoming more "professional" could be part of the problem.
Topics: sports-injuries, health, adolescent-health, diseases-and-disorders, family-and-children, children, community-and-society, sport, australia
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WA NDIS trial has serious shortcomings, lawyer says
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A Perth lawyer, whose brother is part of the West Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) trial, says it has serious policy shortcomings.
Topics: disabilities, health, federal-government, federal---state-issues, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, health-policy, carers, wa, australia
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Spinal research wins from Barossa cycling event
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A collision on the football field meant Neil Sachse never walked again, but he hopes a new cycling event will raise important funds for spinal research.
Topics: medical-research, health, human-interest, charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, charities, sa, tanunda-5352, adelaide-5000, vic, footscray-3011, melbourne-3000
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Treatments to prolong life for mesothelioma patients closer
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Researchers uncover a strange way that asbestos-related tumours grow, which could pave the way towards better treatments.
Topics: asbestos, health, adelaide-5000, sa
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UNSW's Kirby Institute's Aboriginal health adviser James Ward says rates of HIV in Indigenous men have doubled in the past five years. Video
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Indigenous Australians continue to be disproportionately represented in HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates compared to the wider population, new research has found.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, aids-and-hiv, health, diseases-and-disorders, sexually-transmitted-diseases, healthcare-facilities, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, australia
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Remembering Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins
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When they were born, their village saw them as a bad omen, but the original Siamese twins refused to be treated as second-class citizens.
Topics: family-and-children, history, health, united-states
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Ngila Bevan from Disabled Peoples Organisations Australia image
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Opium poppy thefts increasing in Tasmania
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Snap-happy tourists are being blamed for some of the 516 poppy capsule thefts in 2015-16.
Topics: community-and-society, drugs-and-substance-abuse, health, tas
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Do you know what is (and isn't) making you sneeze?
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Sneezing, itchy eyes, running nose. Hayfever is the pits. But how much do you really know about it?
Topics: allergies, health, australia, canberra-2600
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Another case of rare and potentially deadly meningococcal strain
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An elderly patient is recovering from a rare and potentially deadly strain of meningococcal on the Sunshine Coast.
Topics: health, vaccines-and-immunity, community-and-society, maroochydore-4558
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Public hearing for Queensland combat sports safety inquiry cancelled
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Concerns are being raised about an ongoing parliamentary inquiry in Queensland into the safety of combat sports, after a public hearing was cancelled.
Topics: boxing, sport, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, neuroscience, health, qld, brisbane-4000, mackay-4740
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Eye test may provide early Alzheimer's clue, research suggests
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If you could know decades in advance that you would develop Alzheimer's disease, would you want to know? That's one of the issues a US scientist is thinking about as his research shows a simple eye test may provide early diagnosis.
Topics: alzheimers-and-dementia, diseases-and-disorders, health, medical-research, research, science-and-technology, neuroscience, eyes, southport-4215, qld, australia, united-states
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Nurses across PNG on strike after pay dispute Audio
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As many as 4,000 hospital nurses have walked off the job in Papua New Guinea in protest at the government's failure to deliver on a promised pay rise.
Topics: health, health-administration, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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Doctors' groups call for sugar tax to tackle obesity in Australia
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A coalition of Australia's most influential doctors' groups come together to push for a tax on sugar sweetened drink and changes to the way obesity is defined.
Topics: obesity, health-policy, health, diet-and-nutrition, food-and-beverage, industry, business-economics-and-finance, tax, government-and-politics, australia
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Disability care service funding stripped after 'serious' complaints
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A disability accommodation support service is stripped of its funding after the Disability Services Commission says it received complaints about the level of care.
Topics: disabilities, health, wa, perth-6000
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Doctors 'too quick' to prescribe drugs to dementia patients
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A leading dementia expert is warning Australian doctors about the over-use of anti-psychotic medications.
Topics: alzheimers-and-dementia, diseases-and-disorders, drug-use, health, australia
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Health experts explore solutions for Indigenous wellbeing in Melbourne Audio
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Hundreds of delegates from all over the world have gathered for an indigenous health and wellbeing conference in Melbourne.
Topics: health, indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, pacific
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Colouring away your stress isn't child's play
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A group of Sydney women find friendship and therapy through monthly colouring classes for adults.
Topics: stress, arts-and-entertainment, health, community-and-society, human-interest, sydney-2000
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First sods turned at Adelaide veteran mental health facility
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A new veteran's mental health facility that will be opened under the South Australian Government's Transforming Health plan will be named after fallen soldier Sapper Jamie Larcombe, as the first sods are turned at the centre.
Topics: mental-health, health, veterans, defence-and-national-security, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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Oakey resident 'will lose his house after bank refuses lend because of contamination'
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A resident of a Darling Downs town affected by a defence contamination says he will lose his house because of the scandal, as the Department of Defence releases another report into the matter.
Topics: defence-forces, defence-industry, defence-and-national-security, fires, community-and-society, health, diseases-and-disorders, food-poisoning, oakey-4401, qld
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Summer illnesses: what to look out for
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As we eagerly shed the jumpers and say farewell to the cold and flu season, there are some other nasty illnesses that come with summer fun.
Topics: health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, sydney-2000
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Question mark over whether Perth Children's Hospital will be open before election
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The new Perth Children's Hospital looks almost certain not to open until well into 2017, with completion of construction still weeks away and commissioning of the $1.2 billion facility predicted to take months beyond that.
Topics: health, government-and-politics, perth-6000, wa
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Seqwater alerted to illegally dumped soil back in August
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Seqwater confirms it was told by the Redland City Council in August about the illegal dumping of soil - later shown to contain asbestos - at the Leslie Harrison Dam on Brisbane's bayside.
Topics: local-government, government-and-politics, water-management, water, water-supply, asbestos, health, water-pollution, pollution, environment, capalaba-4157
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