A public consultation is being held this week on planned changes to mental health services in the Glasgow area.
On Wednesday June 25th, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is holding a public meeting to discuss proposals to remove services from the Vale of Leven Hospital and transfer them to Glasgow’s Gartnavel Royal Hospital.The Helensburgh Advertiser reports [...]
Men in their 50s are the most likely to fall off ladders in the home, causing injury and death, a new study says.
The research, presented at a medical conference in Hong Kong, said pelvic and limb injuries were most common, but some men suffered more serious head and chest fractures.
“This group was your typical victim [...]
Auckland model Colleen Davis, 24, wore nothing but a subtle smile as she quickly caught the eye of race fans heading home from the days Hamilton 400 event.
You could almost smell the burning shoe rubber as dumbstruck passersby quickly crowded around the brightly-lit window to watch artist Sandra Rodgers sketch Miss Davis in various poses.
That [...]
Flushing Christchurch bride Vicky Heir strutted her toilet-paper wedding dress creation on the red carpet on Christchurchs Victoria Street yesterday, leading up to the citys Wedding Expo tomorrow.
Heir won a promotional competition with her Cottonsofts gown, beating seven other designers.
Expo manager Peta-Marie McLeod said the designers were allowed to use two four-packs of the double [...]
John Earnest Deaves and his daughter Jennifer Anne Deaves are at the centre of an incest scandal in South Australia over their seven-year relationship.
The pair revealed their relationship on the Nine Networks 60 Minutes program last night, saying they were just asking for some respect and understanding.
In March this year, they were placed on three-year [...]
South Australia wants a cap on groundwater diversions from the Murray-Darling Basin agreed on at Wednesday’s Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting, SA Premier Mike Rann says.
Mr Rann said he hoped commonsense would prevail when state and territory leaders met with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Adelaide.
Victoria is the sole Murray-Darling Basin state to baulk [...]
Power Crunch gets expert feedback on a different workout routine every week. This week, former Olympian Silken Laumann shares her exercise regimen.
Silken Laumann, the former world championship rower, is best remembered for winning a bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics just 11 weeks after suffering a severe leg injury when [...]
A Californian woman divorced her husband last month because he played computer
games at night and slept during the day; another faced jail after stabbing
and beating her husband because of his snoring. Both examples are
tragic-comic glimpses into a serious but rarely discussed minefield for
couples: sleep incompatibility.
Research by the Sleep Council has found that half of us [...]
Data from the clinical trial presented to a womens mental health conference in Melbourne shows the medication can reduce levels of a brain protein called amyloid, which is notoriously linked to the condition.
The protein behaves strangely in Alzheimers sufferers, dividing irregularly and creating a form called beta amyloid that builds up in sticky toxic clumps [...]
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 [...]
