Spring hayfever season to be worst in years due to winter rain, experts say
Spring hayfever season to be worst in years due to winter rain, experts say Posted August 31, 2016 13:50:12 A wet winter is set to give way to a sneezy spring in south-eastern Australia, with this hayfever season predicted to be the worst in years. Experts have warned the winter rains will have caused increased grass growth, meaning more pollen in the air in the coming months.This year Australia had its seventh wettest July on record according to the Bureau of Meteoro..>> view originalRM Williams fined over injury
RM Williams fined over worker's injury AAP on August 31, 2016, 5:59 pm The South Australian Industrial Court has fined RM Williams over an injury to a worker in 2015. Iconic Australian boot and clothing manufacturer RM Williams has been fined $90,000 over an injury to a worker who suffered third degree burns.Sharon Vargas was operating a machine designed to press the toes of boots into the desired shape at the company's Adelaide plant in June last year when her hands ..>> view originalJCDecaux IinSCENTivises Donations For Big Aussie Barbie In Media First Campaign
Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia’s ‘SCENTsational’ new Outdoor campaign is snagging donations using the irresistible smell and sound of the iconic Aussie Barbie. Created in partnership with JCDecaux and Cloudmaker Consulting, the campaign combines Tap and Go technology with scent and sound in an Australian media-first to promote Prostate Cancer Foundation Australia’s (PCFA) annual ‘Big Aussie Barbie’ and raise money for prostate cancer research, awareness and support. Harnessing the irre..>> view originalSmart people have 'blood-thirsty' brains
Sarah WiedersehnAustralian Associated PressIntelligence is more strongly associated with blood flow than the size of the brain, new research suggestsAccording to an Australian-led study, the human brain evolved to become not only larger but more "blood-thirsty" than previously believed.Therefore, the more intelligent the more blood the brain required.Scientists at the University of Adelaide calculated how blood flowing to the brain of our human ancestors changed over time by using the size of tw..>> view originalThree words can't justify hospital horrors
NSW minister grilled over fatal gas mistake1:45NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner has faced a grilling over her handling of a fatal hospital gas mix-up. NSW hospitals are under the spotlight after a series of medical bungles. Picture: iStockThese were the three words the embattled NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner offered up yesterday to explain how two dead babies were mistakenly swapped leading to the grief-stricken families bidding goodbye to the wrong child.The mix-up caused one of the b..>> view originalTasmanian devils are evolving to resist a deadly cancer
They are an iconic symbol of Australian wildlife that found fame as a frenetic cartoon character.But in just two decades numbers of the ferocious Tasmanian devil have plummeted by around 85 per cent.The muscular carnivorous marsupials have been devastated by a strange infectious cancer that has spread rapidly through their populations on the island.But a new study has found Tasmanian devils are rapidly evolving resistance to the disease that could save them from dying out. Tasmanian devils (pict..>> view originalChronic Fatigue Syndrome May Leave a 'Chemical Signature' in the Blood
People with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) can wait years before being diagnosed with the condition, and there is no single test for it. But a new study may have found a "chemical signature" for the condition — a set of molecules in the blood that's unique to people with CFS. If this chemical signature is confirmed by future studies, it may help with the diagnosis of CFS, the researchers said. What's more, further study of these molecules may aid in future treatments. For example, studyin..>> view originalNurse Garry Davis predicted deaths of aged care patients he is accused of killing
He had the opportunity, he knew the victims and he had the skills.Aged-care nurse Garry Steven Davis was the only person who could have killed two elderly Newcastle nursing home residents with lethal insulin injections over two days in October, 2013, Newcastle Supreme Court has heard. Accused: Garry Steven Davis Photo: supplied And Mr Davis, 29, was also the only one to predict who was going to die next in a series of text messages to two staff members. He faced the first day of a judg..>> view originalWollongong mother to face court after toddler consumes ice
Wollongong mother to face court after toddler consumes ice Updated August 31, 2016 16:23:21 A Wollongong mother has been ordered to front court in a fortnight or face arrest after her 21-month-old son allegedly swallowed the drug ice while in her care.Detectives from the Child Abuse Squad began investigating the 27-year-old woman from Koonawarra after the toddler was admitted to Wollongong Hospital on January 25, suffering seizures.He tested positive to having consumed ..>> view original
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