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| UpdatedA Melbourne woman whose legs were scorched after going into the sun and a Brisbane mother whose children were left with large blisters are the latest in a string of people raising safety concerns about Banana Boat sunscreen.
Topics: health, skin-cancer, diseases-and-disorders, australia, wa, brisbane-4000, qld
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The Environmental Protection Authority slaps the owner of the Port Augusta power station with a formal notice requiring it to stop ash dust blowing over the city.
Topics: land-pollution, pollution, air-pollution, environment, health, respiratory-diseases, environmental-health, port-augusta-5700, sa
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A coroner examining the death of a baby in Western Australia's remote north says more could have been done by hospital staff and the infant's own family to save her life.
Topics: health, infant-health, death, broome-6725, wa
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Rural communities are being left without access to medical treatment for weeks at a time as Western Australia's Mid West region grapples with a nurse shortage, local councils say.
Topics: health, rural, wa, perth-6000
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The West Australian Government may settle for filtering out lead from drinking water at the new $1.2 billion Perth Children's Hospital, as contractor John Holland continues to search for the source of contamination.
Topics: states-and-territories, healthcare-facilities, health, government-and-politics, perth-6000, wa
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Topics: child-health-and-behaviour, infant-health, health, india
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Fresh fish is on sale in Tonga, as part of the government's attempts to promote healthier lifestyles and tackle the country's obesity epidemic.
Topics: community-and-society, health, diseases-and-disorders, pacific, tonga
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Could you be completely silent and do nothing but meditate for 10 days? More people are choosing solitude over sipping cocktails in a bid to recharge from the stress of life.
Topics: health, meditation-and-prayer, australia
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Topics: health, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedA drug that melts away cancer in some patients with advanced stages of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia is approved by Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration, offering hope for patients with limited treatment options.
Topics: cancer, diseases-and-disorders, health, melbourne-3000
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Tasmania is in desperate need of a nursing and midwifery workforce plan to keep senior staff in the state, the nurses union says.
Topics: health, government-and-politics, tas
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| UpdatedThe father of James Hird says he had no suspicion his son was on the path to being taken to hospital for a suspected overdose.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, health, melbourne-3000, essendon-3040, australia, vic
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| UpdatedMedicinal cannabis advocates are pleading for compassion and urging Australian authorities to legalise the drug to help ease the pain and suffering of those who desperately need it.
Topics: drug-education, community-and-society, health, drug-use, drug-offences, diseases-and-disorders, qld
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| UpdatedLead filtration systems may be accepted as the fix to water contamination problems at the new $1.2-billion Perth Children's Hospital, the Barnett Government says.
Topics: health, government-and-politics, urban-development-and-planning, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedA Queensland medical graduate who was left quadriplegic after a car accident says being offered a place as an intern at the Gold Coast University Hospital is "incredible and surreal".
Topics: health, community-and-society, disabilities, southport-4215, qld
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Central Australian residents are being warned against the potentially deadly mud disease melioidosis following heavy wet season rains in deserts across the Northern Territory.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, infectious-diseases-other, floods, rainfall, health, gardening, nt, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedPort Augusta residents worried about the impacts of an ash cloud blowing over the regional city will have their health checks paid for by the South Australian Government.
Topics: air-pollution, pollution, environment, health, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, port-augusta-5700, sa
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| UpdatedLabor renews its call for Health Minister Sussan Ley's resignation over ongoing questions about more than a dozen taxpayer-funded flights to the Gold Coast, including trips around New Year's Eve in 2013 and 2014.
Topics: health, federal-government, government-and-politics, house-and-home, australia, qld
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| UpdatedHealth Minister Sussan Ley agrees to partly pay back the cost of four trips to the Gold Coast after she purchased an almost-$800,000 apartment during one of the visits, apologising for the "error of judgement".
Topics: health, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedPipi fishing is banned at Goolwa Beach south of Adelaide after the state's blackwater event gives rise to E coli levels considered unsafe for human consumption.
Topics: environmental-health, health, fishing-aquaculture, rural, goolwa-5214, sa
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| UpdatedHeavy snowfall and below-freezing temperatures sweep across Europe causing more than a dozen deaths and throwing travel routes into chaos.
Topics: weather, health, poland, italy, belgium, turkey, greece, european-union
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| UpdatedWith the snow all but gone for the season and the summer tourists starting to arrive, the ABC travels to the Kosciuszko National Park to look at just how much of an impact humans are having on the unique alpine environment.
Topics: national-parks, conservation, environmental-management, environmental-impact, environment, environmental-policy, environmental-health, health, jindabyne-2627, nsw, australia, perisher-valley-2624
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| UpdatedMore testing is required to ascertain any health risks posed by an ash cloud coming from the former Port Augusta power station, a former industrial chemist says.
Topics: pollution, building-and-construction, environment, health, port-augusta-5700, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedUrgent action is needed to ensure there is adequate support for people with a mental illness who are not eligible for the NDIS, mental health service providers say.
Topics: mental-health, health, government-and-politics, tas, australia
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It has long been thought that goosebumps are just evolutionary residue from the caveman era, but new research shows we may have been underestimating them.
Topics: medical-research, health, evolution, skin-cancer, human-interest, melbourne-3000