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Obese people and those with multiple health problems should avoid major operations in small private hospitals where there is no physician overnight, experts say.
Topics: obesity, health, medical-procedures, australia
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How does someone who hasn't exercised for years get moving in a way that's enjoyable, sustainable and safe?
Topics: exercise-and-fitness, health, australia
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Indigenous Australians from remote parts of South Australia will be protected from deadly meningococcal disease through a fly-in clinic held by Royal Flying Doctor Service.
Topics: meningococcal-disease, diseases-and-disorders, health, community-and-society, mintabie-5724, marree-5733, oodnadatta-5734, sa
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| UpdatedDeveloped by researchers at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, the test could eliminate the need for invasive bone marrow and lymph node biopsies.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, medical-procedures, medical-research, diseases-and-disorders, cancer, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedHealth authorities are warning Australian patients about taking cocktails of controversial weight loss drugs being offered by doctors linked to the failed Medical Weightloss Institute.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, health, alternative-medicine, doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-ethics, medical-research, australia
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Experts call for IVF treatment guidelines to be overhauled, arguing they discriminate against obese women trying to fall pregnant.
Topics: health, reproductive-technology, health-policy, pregnancy-and-childbirth, reproduction-and-contraception, australia
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| UpdatedNSW National Party senator John 'Wacka' Williams reveals he has Parkinson's disease, but says he wants to serve out the rest of his Senate term
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, nationals, health, diseases-and-disorders, parkinson-s-disease, inverell-2360
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For couples, families or friends who share a significant song, the effects of music can be powerful and persistent, lasting well into old age, even piercing through dementia.
Topics: alzheimers-and-dementia, diseases-and-disorders, health, music, australia, macquarie-university-2109, nsw
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| UpdatedQueensland researchers use stem cells to create a beating human heart muscle, as well as tissue that is able to repair itself, in a discovery they hope could eventually help people with heart failure.
Topics: medical-research, health, diseases-and-disorders, heart-disease, science-and-technology, research, qld, university-of-queensland-4072, australia
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The New South Wales Government agrees to review the management and operation of a public hospital in South East NSW, only 12 months after its opening.
Topics: health, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, regional, bega-2550
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Cystic fibrosis advocates push for a reimbursement agreement to be adopted in Australia, where drug manufacturers are only paid for medicines if further trials prove they work.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, health, pharmaceuticals, health-policy, federal-government, government-and-politics, children---toddlers, family-and-children, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedFelicity Ward is a stand-up comic whose personal experience of mental illness is at the core of her comedy work. Though passionate about her career, she says persistent anxiety has dampened the joy of making people laugh.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, comedy-humour, television, government-and-politics, world-politics, political-parties, alp, health, mental-health, stress, drug-use, alcohol, australia, united-kingdom
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Topics: education, play-and-learning, health, disabilities, library-museum-and-gallery, community-and-society, community-organisations, community-education, echuca-3564
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Topics: education, play-and-learning, health, disabilities, library-museum-and-gallery, community-and-society, community-organisations, community-education, echuca-3564
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Topics: education, play-and-learning, health, disabilities, library-museum-and-gallery, community-and-society, community-organisations, community-education, echuca-3564
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| UpdatedA community-based book club for people with intellectual and development disabilities is launched at the local library in Echuca.
Topics: education, play-and-learning, health, disabilities, library-museum-and-gallery, community-and-society, community-organisations, community-education, echuca-3564
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| UpdatedNew evidence of babies starving to death in Yemen emerges as the United Nations and aid agencies issue urgent calls for increased aid deliveries to feed 7 million people at risk of famine.
Topics: health, disasters-and-accidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, yemen
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| UpdatedThe General Hospital in Port Moresby has taken delivery of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner, the first of its kind in Papua New Guinea.
Topics: health, science-and-technology, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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A health forum in the outback is told regional needs miss out to big-ticket city projects such as the new Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Topics: government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, health, quorn-5433, sa, mount-gambier-5290, wudinna-5652
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| UpdatedWithout knowing too much, it can seem physios, chiros and osteos practice much the same thing. But scratch the surface and you'll found claims and counter-claims about which method is most likely to work for you.
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| UpdatedSt John Ambulance is urging Australians to save triple-0 calls for life-threatening emergencies to free up ambulance resources.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, health, healthcare-facilities, doctors-and-medical-professionals, australia, act, nsw, nt, qld, sa, tas, vic, wa
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A report from a coalition of health and human rights groups expresses frustration in the nation's inability to effectively tackle Indigenous disadvantage in Australia.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, turnbull-malcolm, federal-government, government-and-politics, health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, australia
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| UpdatedThe father of a poster-child for medicinal cannabis was in tears as police confiscated the drug from their home, according to a video shown in court as he answers charges of cultivation and possession.
Topics: cannabis, drug-use, health, health-policy, drug-offences, gosford-2250
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A Senate inquiry is grappling with the soaring costs of health insurance premiums and CEOs have been warned they could be forced to front up.
Topics: health-insurance, health, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, federal-government, community-and-society, australia
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The inaugural CEO of the troubled National Disability Insurance Scheme, David Bowen, announces his retirement after five years in the role.
Topics: disabilities, government-and-politics, federal-government, health, health-policy, health-insurance, australia