Zika Virus Epidemic: 50 U.S. Cities At Risk For Large Zika Outbreak This Summer
Zika Virus first spread across the Carribean and Latin America and has since now made it’s way to the United States. Now that the virus has arrived, there are 50 U.S. cities, believed to be at greater risk for outbreaks. Surprisingly, this projected epidemic is not for a single region, but instead, will stretch throughout the entire country, with the exception of the Northwest and Midwest. So what cities are in trouble? The virus is expected to infect the hottest regions first, specifically, Te..>> view originalElective surgery waiting lists to blow out because of funding fight: Health Minister Jill Hennessy
Waiting lists for elective surgery in Victorian public hospitals will blow out because of a fight over $73 million between the federal and state governments, Victorian Health Minister Jill Hennessy says. Elective surgery waiting lists to blow out because of funding fight: Health Minister Jill Hennessy The federal and state governments are in a $73 million funding fight.Health Minister Sussan Ley says Victoria artificially inflated its state hospital activity..>> view originalPatient images risk privacy: experts
Patient images risk privacy: expertsPatient images risk privacy: expertsGPs who email images of patients' conditions to specialists to seek a better diagnosis have been warned of significant privacy and legal risks.The practice, known as store-and-forward, is becoming increasingly popular particularly with dermatologists, say research assistant Paul Stevenson, and colleagues from the University of Queensland and Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital.Their advice includes obtaining informed pati..>> view originalDoes NBN need a third satellite?
Australia’s efforts to become a leader in the global digital economy will soon take another giant stride with the announcement, in February 2016, that Qantas will use the National Broadband Network (NBN) satellites to offer in-flight Wi-Fi.The NBN is a visionary nation building infrastructure project that aims to jump-start new and innovative business opportunities and the decision by Qantas highlights the benefit to business that the NBN will provide as the rollout progresses. In late 2016 Qan..>> view originalAustralians still eating too much sugar, teenagers particularly at risk, research shows
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“I’d heard stories before about people finding maggots inside grapes but I’d never believed it,” she wrote. “We always cut them up anyway but I shouted my partner to check inside them just in case as I’d seen a Facebook post by a friend who’d found one a few days earlier.”“He called out to me, saying there was something inside it, and I thought he was joking.”“When I saw inside it I felt sick. How many grapes have we eaten full that potentially had something in the middle of them?”A spokesman fo..>> view original'Living in hell', shackled and confined: Indonesia's mentally ill
A woman chained in a room built behind her family home in Ponorogo, East Java. Photo: Andrea Star Reese - Human Rights Watch Jakarta: Almost 19,000 mentally ill Indonesians are still being shackled or locked up in a confined place – sometimes for years – despite a 1977 ban on the practice, according to Human Rights Watch.A report issued on Monday calls on the government to immediately order inspections of all government and private institutions and take act..>> view originalRogue stem cell practitioners: calls for regulation to close loopholes
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: Scientists are concerned by the number of providers offering unproven stem cell therapies in Australia.The Australian Academy of Science says there are at least 60 practitioners currently offering dodgy therapies.The providers claim that their experimental treatments can cure everything from cancer, to autism and Alzheimer's disease.Imogen Brennan reports.IMOGEN BRENNAN: Dr Mel Thomson is a scientist at Deakin University's School of Medicine. She also lives with multiple s..>> view originalRegional baby boomers in 'the crosshairs' of bowel cancer
Regional baby boomers in 'the crosshairs' of bowel cancer, report says Posted March 21, 2016 11:45:54 Baby boomers living in rural and regional areas in Australia are at the greatest risk of developing bowel cancer, new research has revealed.One in 12 people are at risk of the disease, the KPMG report said, and people between the ages of 50 and 79 should be tested every two years.About 4,000 people die from bowel cancer every year and there are 15,000 new cases diagno..>> view originalUK scientists hail creation of 'flu trap'
UK scientists hail creation of 'flu trap'A "flu trap" that captures viruses could help prevent the spread of infection, British scientists say.Researchers at the University of Manchester have developed a fabric coating for masks and air filters that isolates the viral particles responsible for influenza.The technology mimics carbohydrate structures on the surfaces of cells lining respiratory airways and the oesophagus, or food pipe.Paul Hope, director of the biotec company Virustatic that is see..>> view original
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