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New research shows young people with no known history of heart disease are at risk of a fatal cardiac arrest after just one energy drink, February 16, 2017.
Topics: heart-disease, health, diet-and-nutrition, research, 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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A traditional Mediterranean diet has been shown to have significant health benefits. But can you follow it if you live nowhere near a Greek island?
Topics: health, diet-and-nutrition, vitamins, bowel-and-rectal-cancer, heart-disease, la-trobe-university-3086, 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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| UpdatedA man uses his robotic exoskeleton to walk onto the soccer pitch. A woman sees the world using her bionic eye. Sound like science fiction? No, these are all real stories.
Topics: biotechnology, science-and-technology, neuroscience, robots-and-artificial-intelligence, disabilities, health, australia, germany, sweden
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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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| UpdatedImages of young people buying fruit and vegetables, taking Zumba classes, and surfing lessons, were among the winners in a photography competition aimed at capturing the effort that Pacific Islanders are making to tackle the scourge of non-communicable diseases.
Topics: photography, health, pacific
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| UpdatedFor many disability and education advocates it's confirmation of their long-held belief, but new figures appear to suggest students with a disability face an enormous funding gap in Australian schools.
Topics: education, access-to-education, disabilities, health, australia
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| UpdatedOnce it's fully operational, the NDIS will be one of the biggest Government-funded program after Medicare. But where will those funds come from?
Topics: disabilities, health, health-administration, health-insurance, health-policy, australia
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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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| UpdatedAdelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital failed to report the deaths of eight infants over a nine-year period, and the delays in reporting have serious ramifications for investigations, coroner Mark Johns says.
Topics: health, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedA 65 per cent hike in the price of ice-cream might not sound like a great idea, but what if it meant you could live longer? Melbourne researchers say a sugar tax, combined with subsidies for healthy foods, could increase Australians' life expectancy.
Topics: obesity, diet-and-nutrition, food-and-cooking, food-and-beverage, health, melbourne-3000
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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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Victoria's residential care system is failing the young people it is set up to care for, a former workers says.
Topics: carers, youth, community-and-society, health, child-abuse, child-health-and-behaviour, vic, geelong-3220
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Emergency defibrillators that come with recorded verbal instructions are installed in the CBD as part of a $25,000 trial hoped to save the lives of cardiac arrest victims, with people urged to use them even if they are untrained.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, heart-disease, health, adelaide-5000
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Tougher laws, more drug-driving tests and greater search powers for police are all options on the table as South Australia sets up a taskforce to urgently tackle growing use of the drug ice.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, drug-offences, drug-use, health, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, sa
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| UpdatedFive-time Paralympian and disability advocate Kurt Fearnley criticises the Federal Government's decision to cut funding to other social services to fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Topics: disabilities, health, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government rejected a report it commissioned which recommended the introduction of compulsory mental health and drug treatment for vulnerable children in the strife-torn child protection and youth justice systems.
Topics: youth, drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, drug-use, health, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, vic, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThere are fears the new Royal Adelaide Hospital will struggle to cope with its first winter flu season after the current hospital hits capacity during summer.
Topics: health, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, healthcare-facilities, adelaide-5000, sa
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Queensland researchers map muscle fibres and find calcium levels rising to high levels after a strenuous workout, increasing the risk of damage.
Topics: science-and-technology, research, health, medical-research, exercise-and-fitness, brisbane-4000, university-of-queensland-4072
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| UpdatedMedical professionals are raising concerns about a potential conflict of interest in the widespread practice of pharmaceutical companies sponsoring little-known hospital "journal clubs".
Topics: pharmaceuticals, health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, australia
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It is a national epidemic that leaves its sufferers trapped inside their own bodies; isolated, depressed and misunderstood. Obesity affects almost a quarter of Australians, but help can be almost impossible to find.
Topics: obesity, health, government-and-politics, community-and-society, narellan-2567, australia