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| UpdatedA portable helmet being trialled by Australian paramedics that uses microwave technology to quickly diagnose a suspected stroke could help doctors save lives and intervene before major brain damage occurs.
Topics: stroke, health, diseases-and-disorders, inventions, australia
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Australia's Ross River virus has the potential to become a global epidemic, similar to the Zika virus, researchers say.
Topics: ross-river-fever, diseases-and-disorders, health, canberra-2600, adelaide-5000, australian-national-university-0200, adelaide-university-5005, sa, act
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| UpdatedThe circumstances surrounding the recent death of a fourth Adelaide cancer patient connected to an under-dosing of a chemotherapy drug, Carol Barinsfather, will be examined at an inquest.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, cancer, diseases-and-disorders, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedQueenslanders are being urged to maintain a healthy weight, be sun smart and do more to take care of their health to reduce their risk of cancer, after diagnoses in the state rose by more than 20 per cent over three decades.
Topics: cancer, prostate-cancer, lung-cancer, bowel-and-rectal-cancer, breast-cancer, diseases-and-disorders, health, qld, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedJohaan Kaa, who lost both his legs and arms to meningococcal in 2014, hopes Queensland parents will take up a new $6-million State Government program to provide free vaccines to all 15 to 19-year-olds.
Topics: meningococcal-disease, diseases-and-disorders, health, government-and-politics, qld, brisbane-4000
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Victorians are again being warned to protect themselves from mosquito bites with reported cases of Ross River virus continuing to "rise significantly".
Topics: ross-river-fever, diseases-and-disorders, health, vic, melbourne-3000
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Australian doctors say viewing X-rays on a smartphone can be just as useful in diagnosing common lung problems in babies as looking at the standard X-ray film, opening up opportunities for rural patients who need quick diagnosis.
Topics: medical-research, health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, babies, family-and-children, infant-health, diseases-and-disorders, child-health-and-behaviour, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedAn 11-year-old girl who died of sepsis after rolling her ankle was sent home from hospital with painkillers and antibiotics after a phone consultation with an on-call doctor, an inquest into her death is told.
Topics: health, child-health-and-behaviour, diseases-and-disorders, nt
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| UpdatedEnergy drinks are linked to a higher risk of sudden cardiac death and increased blood pressure among young people who may be unaware they have a heart condition, a new study finds.
Topics: food-and-beverage, diseases-and-disorders, health, diet-and-nutrition, sydney-2000, australia
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Topics: food-poisoning, food-safety, diseases-and-disorders, health, food-and-beverage, gungahlin-2912, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Topics: food-poisoning, food-safety, health, diseases-and-disorders, jamison-centre-2614, macquarie-2614, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedTwo popular cafes in Canberra are forced to close after an unknown number of people are hospitalised with food poisoning.
Topics: food-poisoning, food-safety, health, diseases-and-disorders, food-and-beverage, jamison-centre-2614, macquarie-2614, belconnen-2617, gungahlin-2912, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedAbout 140 passengers on the Sun Princess cruise ship come down with gastro, a fortnight after staff tried to rid the vessel of a norovirus upon returning from another trip.
Topics: health, diseases-and-disorders, infectious-diseases-other, hamilton-4007, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedGlobal efforts to combat tuberculosis need to be urgently expanded to avoid millions of deaths in the future.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, infectious-diseases-other, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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Researchers discover the three-dimensional structure of a protein responsible for multi-drug resistant bacteria, in a major step forward in the battle against antibiotic resistance.
Topics: health, infectious-diseases-other, diseases-and-disorders, wa, australia
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| UpdatedDementia is set to cost Australia an estimated $18 billion a year by 2025, as Alzheimer's Australia calls for a national strategy to combat the disease.
Topics: alzheimers-and-dementia, diseases-and-disorders, health, federal-government, australia, canberra-2600, act
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Townsville has confirmed its first locally-acquired case of the mosquito-borne dengue virus for 2017.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, dengue-fever, environmental-health, pests, community-and-society, townsville-4810
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There are concerns drug companies will be better able to hide how much they wine and dine doctors under changes to public reporting rules, with one expert labelling the changes a "step backwards" for transparency.
Topics: medical-ethics, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, stroke, diseases-and-disorders, australia
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Sue Godfrey is one of those questioning the marketing of new-generation blood thinners including Pradaxa, the medication her elderly mother had been taking before she died of a stroke.
Topics: medical-ethics, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, stroke, diseases-and-disorders, australia
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| UpdatedAn ABC investigation finds pharmaceutical companies spent more than $2.6 million on "educational events" for doctors on new-generation blood thinners in just six months in 2015, raising concerns the potentially risky drugs are being prescribed to some patients who may not need them.
Topics: medical-ethics, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, stroke, diseases-and-disorders, australia
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A South Australian teenager who needs a machine to help him breathe has more reason than many to worry about power blackouts, after brief rolling outages earlier in the week cut power to thousands of homes.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, health, electricity-energy-and-utilities, adelaide-5000, sa
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Pressure mounts for the Q fever vaccine to be subsidised in NSW, amid concerns hundreds of people could be exposed to the potentially deadly disease.
Topics: veterinary-medicine, diseases-and-disorders, livestock, orange-2800, dubbo-2830, tamworth-2340, lismore-2480, wagga-wagga-2650, muswellbrook-2333
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About 4,000 South Australian students could miss out on free vaccines for meningococcal B, because their schools have yet to sign up to a government-backed trial.
Topics: meningococcal-disease, diseases-and-disorders, states-and-territories, sa, australia
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