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Food safety warning: keep it cold, keep it clean, keep it hot 12/17/2012

Minister for Primary Industries Katrina Hodgkinson today urged people to follow three simple rules to prevent food poisoning this festive season.

A new approach to deadly influenza outbreaks in nursing homes 10/22/2012

In developed countries people over 65 years old are the most likely to die from an influenza outbreak and people in nursing homes, where the virus is difficult to control, are ...

Olive oil could provide insight into its anti-inflammatory properties 10/10/2012

Deakin University researchers are investigating the anti-inflammatory properties of virgin olive oil to see if it as the potential to protect against the inflammation involved in ...

Infectious disease risk low priority for Australian travellers 10/10/2012

New research led by the University of Sydney's Family Medicine Research Centre reveals many Australians are inadequately protecting against potentially serious infectious diseases ...

Anti-cancer traits found in faba beans: research 10/10/2012

Anti-cancer properties have been found in extracts from Australian-grown faba beans, along with effects that may have implications for treating hypertension and maintaining healthy ...

Study finds most children eat four times the daily salt limit 10/10/2012

A Deakin University study has found seven in ten children are eating more than the recommended upper limit of salt each day, putting their health at serious risk.

Skin's role in food allergies investigated 9/21/2012

Australian researchers are closer to cracking an investigation into the exponential increase in childhood food allergies after confirming a genetic link between allergies and eczema. ...

Trial strawberry variety shows exciting health potential 9/19/2012

A Queensland strawberry-breeding program has uncovered what could become the nutritional power-berry of the strawberry industry.

Two-thirds of people who have a stroke become depressed 9/19/2012

Up to two-thirds of people who have a stroke will experience depression and although it is more common in the first year after the stroke - stroke survivors, friends and family need ...

Australians are feeling the urge to donate to science 9/19/2012

When Ron announced to his family that his body would be donated to science, no one was going to stand in his way.

Health workers encouraged to ask R U OK? 9/12/2012

With an estimated 13 million Australians aware of R U OK? Day and 1 in 5 taking part in 2011, this year’s R U OK? Day on September 13 is set to encourage even more Australians health ...

Grass pollen allergy research tackles hay fever 9/12/2012

Queenslanders can expect to endure a longer hay fever season than the rest of Australia thanks to flowering subtropical grasses.

Digital stress and strain: the paperless office as a workplace hazard 9/5/2012

Office workers from all professions are experiencing unprecedented levels of neck, back, shoulder and arm pain as an unintended consequence of the paperless office, according to new ...

Unearthing clues to surviving ovarian cancer 8/29/2012

Researchers at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research have begun Australia’s first study into lifestyle factors that may improve survival rates and quality of life for women ...

PNG doctors taught how to save hearts by Aussie teams 8/22/2012

"They have the future of surgical medicine in their hands. It’s our job to get that first generation up and running." Dr Matthew Crawford, Anaesthetist and Operation Open Heart ...

Male circumcision: a cutting issue 8/21/2012

The Tasmanian Law Reform Institute has recommended that male circumcision should be banned unless the religious or cultural reasons for the surgery are ‘well established’.

Mechanisms of acquired chemoresistance in ovarian cancer 8/15/2012

The presence of multiple ovarian cancer genomes in an individual patient and the absence or downregulation of the gene LRP1B are associated with the development of chemoresistance ...

The ethics of human organ and tissue transplantation 8/14/2012

Dead bodies are big business. There is a growing and very lucrative trade in human tissue — but how will the Australian medical industry keep up with the associated technologies ...

Feeling ginger: spice could manage diabetes complications 8/7/2012

Ginger, the common spice and ancient Asian remedy, could have the power to help manage the high levels of blood sugar which create complications for long-term diabetic patients, a ...

Getting a good night's sleep a challenge for astronauts 8/1/2012