Victorian Premier John Brumby today announced the $A218 million programme today, describing obesity as a challenge as big as climate change.
The five-year plan, funded by a $A600 million WorkSafe surplus, will provide voluntary screening for the states 2.6 million workers.
It will target those at risk of preventative diseases, such as type two diabetes, through an [...]
Menopause is often blamed for increased emotional, physical and sexual dissatisfaction as women age, but researchers presenting findings at a womens mental health conference in Melbourne say the news is not all bad.
In fact its quite good, said Professor Lorraine Dennerstein, a psychiatrist at the University of Melbourne, will tell delegates tomorrow.
We found that womens [...]
Touted as a glamour product for upwardly mobile women in booming Russia, Damskaya or Ladies vodka worries doctors, who fear a fresh wave of female alcoholics in a country already suffering one of the worlds worst drink problems.
The Moscow Serbsky Institute for Social and Forensic Psychiatry says Russia has 2.5 million registered alcoholics, but adds [...]
John Gillebaud, a leading academic on birth control, reproductive health and population issues, told a conference in Canberra Friday that unprotected sex leading to unwanted pregnancies is the greatest threat to mankind.
Every single week a new city of 1.7 million could be created, and the current global population growth is unsustainable, he said by videolink [...]
OTTAWA - A new study suggests that the use of the health-care system in Canada, and mental health services in particular, differs by sexual orientation.
A report published Wednesday by Statistics Canada sought to answer whether sexual identity had anything to do with having a regular doctor, consulting health-care providers, taking preventive screening tests and having [...]
The same day Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. signed a bill aimed at eventually overhauling health care in Utah, new data showed the number of uninsured state residents has dropped for the first time since 2001.
But the dip, credited to last year’s strong economy, isn’t big enough to warrant relaxing, health officials and politicians said, particularly [...]
KOCHI: Max New York Life Insurance has forayed into health insurance services and launched three schemes with a fixed premia for a five-year period.
Rajender Sud, senior vice-president of the company, told mediapersons that health insurance penetration in the country was one of the lowest, at 1.2 per cent of the population, and there were large [...]
Theres a bunch of researchers in Ohio who specialise in wounding patients,
making them angry and then sitting back to observe the effect of stress on
the healing process. (Which reminds me, I must finish that My Dream Job
article for the BMJ.) I first heard about them in 2005 when they
inflicted injuries on married couples, sat them [...]
Richard Smith*, a 26-year-old PhD student, sits in the sunny garden of his
Cambridge flat dressed casually in t-shirt and shorts. Conversation flits
between Richards two passions: football - especially his home team
Wolverhampton Wanderers - and synthetic biology, an expanding field of
science that blends genetic biology with engineering, of which he is an
expert. Richard has no more [...]
Feb. 29 (Bloomberg) — Chikungunya, the tropical disease
that spread to Europe from Asia last year, may have turned
deadly, according to scientists who studied an outbreak that
infected about 1.4 million people in India.
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