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• Study links childhood obesity to sleep deprivation

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 8:58pm EDT

  An Australian study has found that sleep deprivation can contribute to obesity in children.

• Nurses call for single award standard

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 8:58pm EDT

  The Australian Nurses Federation is calling on the Federal Government to protect nurses' wages and conditions by creating a single award for the profession.

• Alcohol fuels increased glassing attacks

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 8:58pm EDT

  Glassing is not a real word but it is a term that is frighteningly familiar to most people acquainted with alcohol-related violence.

• Food labels confuse shoppers: survey

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 8:58pm EDT

  Health groups are calling for a new nutrition labelling system on food after a survey found it was easier for shoppers to make healthier choices with a "traffic light" labelling system.

• Scientists move closer to creating artificial noses

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 7:16am EDT

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists say they have moved closer to creating "artificial noses" after finding a way to mass-produce smell receptors in a laboratory.

• China arrests 27 over tainted milk scandal

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 7:16am EDT

  Police in northern China have arrested 27 people in their probe into tainted milk that has sickened 53,000 children and embarrassed China's reputation abroad.

• Qld public service to resume pay negotiations

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 7:16am EDT

  Queensland Industrial Relations Minister John Mickel has announced public service unions will resume pay negotiations with the State Government next week.

• Nats, Libs deny shelving Kalgoorlie Hospital upgrade

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 7:16am EDT

  The Nationals Leader Brendon Grylls has backed the State Treasurer Troy Buswell who has rejected speculation that an upgrade to the Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital has been put on hold.

• Libs pledge sport funding for poor families

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 7:16am EDT

  The Canberra Liberal Party has promised funding to ensure children from poorer families can afford to play sport as part of their sports and recreation policy.

• Qld hospital overcrowding 'being addressed'

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 7:16am EDT

  Queensland Health Minister Stephen Robertson says initiatives are in place to deal with "ramping" where ambulances are forced to wait to unload patients because of hospital overcrowding.

• Former hospital building burns down

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 7:16am EDT

  A former hospital building at Wacol in Brisbane's south-west has been destroyed by fire.

• Toxic milk raises local lolly concerns

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 7:16am EDT

  The peak body representing Australian confectionery manufacturers is going to publish a list on its website of lollies and chocolates that are free from contaminated Chinese milk.

• Charity urges sober October

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 7:16am EDT

  A drug and alcohol awareness group is asking people to give up alcohol during October as part of a fundraising effort.

• Questions raised over Narcanon lease on historic building

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 7:16am EDT

  The Mental Health Council of Australia has strongly criticised Victoria's national parks authority for leasing a historic public building rent free to a drug treatment service connected to Scientology.

• Union wants tougher penalties for paramedic assaults

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 7:16am EDT

  The ambulance union says new laws are needed to stop people from assaulting paramedics, after one was bashed outside the Cairns Base Hospital in far north Queensland.

• Labor unveils $1b health vision

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 7:16am EDT

  The ACT Government has pledged $1 billion for an upgrade of Canberra's public health system if it is re-elected next month.

• 'Unvaccinated kids' linked to whooping cough spike

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 7:16am EDT

  There has been a significant spike in the figures for whooping cough cases in northern New South Wales.

• Qld Hospital workers strike

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 7:16am EDT

  Thousands of Queensland hospital workers participated in a two-hour strike as they turned up the heat on the State Government over a wages dispute.

• Victorian doctors say they could strike

  Fetched: September 30th, 2008, 7:16am EDT

  The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has warned that Victorian doctors may walk off the job in their fight for more pay.

• Pratchett warns of Alzheimer's 'tsunami'

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 7:49pm EDT

  Bestselling author Terry Pratchett, who has Alzheimer's disease, warned on Monday (local time) that Britain faced a "tsunami" of dementia sufferers and pleaded for more funding into research.

• Former AMA chief recovering from brutal bashing

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 7:49pm EDT

  The former head of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) is recovering from emergency brain surgery after he was bashed at the weekend.

• $200K mine fine a big safety warning: union

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 7:49pm EDT

  The coal miners' union says a big fine issued to a New South Wales Upper Hunter mine owner should be a warning to others tempted to neglect their occupational health and safety obligations.

• Food Standards Australia backs Cadbury recall

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 7:49pm EDT

  Australia's food regulator says the withdrawal of a chocolate product by Cadbury, is a sign the food regulation system is working well.

• Nursing increase plan 'pointless' without more training places

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 7:49pm EDT

  A professor at Charles Darwin University says the Federal Government's plan to increase nursing graduates will fail unless clinical training places are also increased.

• Hospital workers to walk off the job

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 7:49pm EDT

  Thousands of hospital workers across Queensland will walk off the job for at least two hours today as part of an ongoing wages dispute with the State Government.

• Cadbury recalls Chinese-made chocolate

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 7:49pm EDT

  Cadbury says it has recalled its Chinese-made chocolates from Australia after tests "cast doubt" on their safety.

• Government considers NW child protection report

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 7:49pm EDT

  The Tasmanian government says it is considering the findings of an independent inquiry into child protection services in the north west.

• Labor pledges funds for essential health services

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 7:49pm EDT

  The ACT Labor Party has promised extra funding to set up an advocacy body to help carers access essential health services.

• Hardie executives misled investors, court told

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 7:49pm EDT

  A Sydney court has heard former directors and executives of James Hardie misled investors about their ability to compensate asbestos victims.

• Doctors warn abortion bill could force some to leave state

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 7:49pm EDT

  A group of doctors is warning that Victoria's proposed abortion laws could force some medical practitioners to leave the profession or move interstate.

• Former AMA president bashed

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 7:49pm EDT

  The former national president of the Australian Medical Association, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, is recovering from a serious head injury, after being bashed in the Melbourne suburb of Williamstown.

• Busy weekend for police in State's south

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 7:49pm EDT

  Police in Southern Tasmania caught more than 40 people drink driving over the AFL grand final weekend.

• Red Cross anti-discrimination hearing continues

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 7:49pm EDT

  A HIV expert has told a Hobart Anti-Discrimination tribunal that risk assessment of blood donors is done on the basis of extreme conservatism.

• Japan experts find genetic clues to narcolepsy

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 1:06am EDT

  Scientists in Japan have identified a gene variant that may be linked to narcolepsy - a condition marked by excessive daytime sleepiness, impaired vision and muscle weakness.

• Cannabis linked to psychosis: report

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 1:06am EDT

  A new report says people who use cannabis are more likely than other drug users to seek help for anxiety or psychosis from their GPs.

• Families upset as nursing home residents moved

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 1:06am EDT

  The manager of a nursing home ordered to close by the Federal Government says residents are being moved out without the knowledge of their families.

• PM announces boost in nursing education places

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 1:06am EDT

  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced almost 1,100 new higher education places for nursing.

• Ban Hardie directors from managing companies: widow

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 1:06am EDT

  The widow of asbestos campaigner Bernie Banton is calling for the former directors of James Hardie to be banned from managing any other company.

• Hunter to host Fed Govt community cabinet

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 1:06am EDT

  The Federal Government is hosting a community cabinet meeting in Newcastle in New South Wales' Hunter region today.

• Katherine Mayor calls for booze ban reprieve

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 1:06am EDT

  This week a report card on the emergency response in the Northern Territory is expected to be handed to the Federal Government by its hand-picked review panel.

• Tenders called for $1.5m diabetes research centre

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 1:06am EDT

  A research organisation working to reduce heart disease and diabetes in the Indigenous population hopes its new centre in Alice Springs will be up and running by the middle of next year.

• Mine study finds work fatigue, drinking similarities

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 1:06am EDT

  A new study into miner fatigue has revealed working while tired results in similar effects to being drunk.

• Dam dust long-term health risks low: report

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 1:06am EDT

  A report has found the health risks from exposure to the dust blown from a controversial tailings dam in far north Queensland are low.

• James Hardie hearing to begin

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 1:06am EDT

  South Australian asbestos victims affected by James Hardie building products say a they hope a court case starting today will bring justice to former company executives.

• Time running out for health agreement: Bligh

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 1:06am EDT

  The Queensland Premier says time is running out for the states and the Commonwealth to nail down the next Australian Healthcare Agreement.

• Qld Govt warns action over hospital work bans

  Fetched: September 29th, 2008, 1:06am EDT

  The Queensland Government says it will take public sector unions to the Industrial Commission if patient safety is affected by hospital work bans.

• Woman unable to open eyes 3 days a week: report

  Fetched: September 28th, 2008, 12:26pm EDT

  An Australian woman is blind three days out of every six because her eyes involuntarily shut and she cannot open them, a report has said.

• States 'passing buck' on unsafe drinking behaviour

  Fetched: September 28th, 2008, 2:14am EDT

  The spirits industry is criticising a push for an alcohol advertising ban as an easy way for state governments to avoid properly addressing anti-social behaviour.

• Ministers to mull grog ad ban

  Fetched: September 28th, 2008, 2:14am EDT

  A new push for a ban on alcohol advertising will be taken to a meeting of health ministers in November.

• Patients' families to wait on Rosden appeal

  Fetched: September 27th, 2008, 9:32am EDT

  A Melbourne nursing home stripped of its operating licence says families are confused about whether to move their relatives to other homes.

• 18yo seriously injured after glassing incident

  Fetched: September 27th, 2008, 9:32am EDT

  Sydney police are investigating a glassing incident outside a hotel in the city's west this afternoon, which has left the victim with serious facial injuries.

• Qld man rescued after Mt Coolum fall

  Fetched: September 27th, 2008, 9:32am EDT

  A 45-year-old Sunshine Coast man has been airlifted to hospital after he suffered a suspected broken leg while walking up Mount Coolum in Queensland's south-east.

• Risk for cyclists 'increasing' on Beach Rd

  Fetched: September 27th, 2008, 9:32am EDT

  Melbourne cyclists say the lack of clearways along Beach Road is putting bike riders at risk of serious injury.

• New children's hospital would hurt RBWH: Opposition

  Fetched: September 27th, 2008, 9:32am EDT

  The Queensland Opposition says a new children's hospital at South Bank will be detrimental to services at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH) at Herston in Brisbane's inner suburbs.

• Mad cow case found in Italy

  Fetched: September 27th, 2008, 9:32am EDT

  The first case of mad cow disease in Italy in two years has been uncovered at a research laboratory in the northern city of Turin, news reports say.

• Nursing home staff take issue with rushed exit

  Fetched: September 26th, 2008, 5:48pm EDT

  Management at the Rosden Private Nursing Home claims relocation staff hired by the Federal Government are using scare tactics to have residents removed.

• NIB guarded on takeover speculation

  Fetched: September 26th, 2008, 12:14pm EDT

  Newcastle-based health insurer NIB says it has nothing to disclose amid reports it is in takeover talks with foreign interests.

• BMI 'misdiagonising' children as overweight

  Fetched: September 26th, 2008, 12:14pm EDT

  Tall pre-pubescent children are being incorrectly classified as overweight or obese, an Australian study into children's health and lifestyles has found.

• Melbourne nursing home 'failed to pay staff'

  Fetched: September 26th, 2008, 12:14pm EDT

  The controversy over conditions at Melbourne's Rosden Private Nursing Home has deepened with confusion over whether staff at the home are being paid.

• Expert calls for a rethink on child allergy strategies

  Fetched: September 26th, 2008, 12:14pm EDT

  Rising allergy rates among children have puzzled Australian doctors for years.

• Indigenous condoms aim to take the shame from the game

  Fetched: September 26th, 2008, 12:14pm EDT

  A family planning organisation says there's still a long way to go to make condoms available in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal communities.

• Alleged rape victim's mental age just 10, court told

  Fetched: September 26th, 2008, 12:14pm EDT

  A psychologist has told a Gold Coast court that a 61-year-old woman who was allegedly raped has a mental capacity in the bottom 1 per cent of her age group.

• Cancer risk confirmed at Adelaide school

  Fetched: September 26th, 2008, 12:14pm EDT

  An investigation of dust contamination at Le Fevre primary school at Birkenhead has revealed low levels of a carcinogenic compound.

• Court grants 12-year-old an abortion

  Fetched: September 26th, 2008, 12:14pm EDT

  In what is believed to be a landmark ruling, a Supreme Court judge in Brisbane has given permission for a 12-year-old girl to have an abortion.

• NIB tipped as takeover target

  Fetched: September 26th, 2008, 12:14pm EDT

  Speculation is mounting that Newcastle-based health insurer NIB is a takeover target, with the ABC told several overseas companies are poised to pounce.

• NSW pushes for more hospital funding

  Fetched: September 26th, 2008, 12:14pm EDT

  The New South Wales Government says it expects the Rudd Government to increase the Commonwealth's share of public hospital funding after new figures revealed it has declined in recent years.

• Qld health spending second-lowest per capita, report shows

  Fetched: September 26th, 2008, 12:14pm EDT

  The Queensland Government says new health spending figures highlight the need for more Commonwealth funding.

• Me too: Gillard admits to pot smoking

  Fetched: September 26th, 2008, 12:14pm EDT

  Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has joined the Liberal Party leader in admitting that she had smoked marijuana in her younger years.

• Tuggeranong residents launch doctor campaign

  Fetched: September 25th, 2008, 10:13pm EDT

  Residents in the southern Canberra suburb of Tuggeranong have joined shop owners in a bid to attract a new GP to the area.

• UN meeting pledges $3b to fight malaria

  Fetched: September 25th, 2008, 10:13pm EDT

  World leaders and philanthropists at a summit in New York have pledged nearly $3 billion to fight malaria.

• States, territories pick up hospital funding slack: report

  Fetched: September 25th, 2008, 10:13pm EDT

  The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare says the Federal Government's share of public hospital funding has fallen by 7 per cent since 2001.

• Cancer cluster fire station to be demolished

  Fetched: September 25th, 2008, 10:13pm EDT

  A house on the Atherton fire station site, in far north Queensland, will be demolished today as a symbolic gesture to cancer sufferers.

• EU bans Chinese baby food containing milk

  Fetched: September 25th, 2008, 10:13pm EDT

  The European Union has banned all imports of Chinese baby food that contain any traces of milk because of the controversy over contaminated products in China.

• Robertson defended in wake of patient harm report

  Fetched: September 25th, 2008, 10:13pm EDT

  The Bundaberg Hospital Patient Support Group has defended the Health Minister after a report found staff are reporting more cases of patient harm and near misses.

• Baby zoo animals sick in Chinese milk crisis

  Fetched: September 25th, 2008, 10:13pm EDT

  Two baby orangutans and a lion cub have become the latest victims of China's contaminated milk crisis.

• Fed Govt refuses to give up on Medicare fight

  Fetched: September 25th, 2008, 10:13pm EDT

  The Federal Government is insisting it will not give up on its plans to change the Medicare levy surcharge threshold without a fight.

• Sri Lankan Govt wants to grow its own marijuana

  Fetched: September 25th, 2008, 10:13pm EDT

  Facing a lack of the fresh weed for use in traditional Ayurvedic medical preparations, the Sri Lankan Government wants to grow its own marijuana.

• Milk scandal: PNG mums urged to breastfeed

  Fetched: September 25th, 2008, 10:13pm EDT

  Mothers in Papua New Guinea are being urged to breastfeed their children in the wake of the Chinese milk scare.

• EU to limit imports of Chinese milk products

  Fetched: September 25th, 2008, 10:13pm EDT

  The European Commission has proposed restricting food imports from China containing powered milk.

• Nursing home to appeal against closure

  Fetched: September 25th, 2008, 10:13pm EDT

  The managers of a Melbourne nursing home ordered to close by the Federal Government will appeal the decision.

• NIB lifts profit outlook after Medicare levy rejection

  Fetched: September 25th, 2008, 10:13pm EDT

  Health insurer NIB has lifted its profit outlook in light of the Senate's rejection of changes to the Medicare levy surcharge.

• Gopher driving: hare or tortoise?

  Fetched: September 25th, 2008, 10:13pm EDT

  As the population ages, police are turning their attention to a new form of road safety.

• Oppn bid to ban smoking at Tour Down Under

  Fetched: September 25th, 2008, 10:13pm EDT

  A bill has been introduced to the South Australian Parliament to ban smoking at the Tour Down Under cycling.

• Della Bosca intervenes in ambulance row

  Fetched: September 19th, 2008, 1:25am EDT

  New South Wales ambulance officers have called off threatened industrial action after an intervention by the state's new Health Minister John Della Bosca.

• RSL loses court smoking area challenge

  Fetched: September 19th, 2008, 1:25am EDT

  Dubbo RSL has lost a Supreme Court Challenge over the definition of an outdoor smoking area.

• Broncos boss says Lockyer defamed

  Fetched: September 19th, 2008, 1:25am EDT

  Brisbane Broncos chief executive Bruno Cullen says team captain Darren Lockyer has a strong case for defamation of character after he was accused of tackling a nightclub owner.

• Infant paracetamol linked to asthma increases

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 11:39pm EDT

  New Zealand researchers have found that giving children paracetamol in the first year of their life significantly increases their risk of developing asthma.

• 1 dead after pole falls on crane

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 11:39pm EDT

  A worker has died and another has been seriously injured in an industrial accident at a road works site at Euromo south of Cairns in far north Queensland.

• Milk scandal: Company 'kept quiet for three years'

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 11:39pm EDT

  Reports in the Chinese media suggest the company at the centre of a contaminated milk scandal knew it had a problem as far back as 2005.

• Forget brain drain, now it's brain gain

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 11:39pm EDT

  Western Australians will be the first in the country to have access to a brain fitness program which promises to improve memory function and cognitive ability by 10 years.

• Ambulance work bans 'a last resort'

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 11:39pm EDT

  The union representing New South Wales ambulance officers says it is hoping industrial action planned from tonight can still be averted.

• Hong Kong recalls dairy products as melamine scandal widens

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 11:39pm EDT

  Hong Kong has recalled dairy products made by a company implicated in the contaminated milk scandal that has killed four babies in China.

• More public input on hospital site

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 11:39pm EDT

  A Hobart alderman wants individuals and groups with a working interest in the city's port to have a say at a public forum on the new Royal Hobart Hospital site.

• Legal action to proceed against 'obesity surgeon'

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 2:10pm EDT

  A Brisbane Supreme Court judge has given a major law firm permission to begin legal action against a Gold Coast surgeon who is accused of malpractice.

• Less HRT linked to breast cancer drop: expert

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 2:10pm EDT

  An international conference on breast cancer in Sydney has heard that decreasing use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is connected to decreasing breast cancer rates.

• China arrests 12 arrested over baby milk scandal

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 2:10pm EDT

  Authorities in China have arrested 12 people in connection with the baby milk scandal that has left more than 6,000 infants seriously ill.

• Broncos boss says Lockyer 'defamed'

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 3:56am EDT

  Brisbane Broncos chief executive Bruno Cullen says team captain Darren Lockyer has a strong case for defamation of character after he was accused of tackling a nightclub owner.

• Govt blocks parliamentary health inquiry

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 3:56am EDT

  The Opposition's push for a parliamentary inquiry into Northern Territory acute health care services has been blocked, with the Government describing it as a CLP political point scoring attempt.

• Cancer cluster fears at second Qld school

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 3:56am EDT

  Concerns over cancer rates have been raised at a second school, just north of Brisbane.

• Researchers study near-death experiences

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 3:56am EDT

  A three-year study to examine near-death experiences in heart attack patients has started in Britain and the United States.

• Rich history in railyard dig

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 3:56am EDT

  Remnants of the home of Tasmania's richest man in the 1820s have been discovered in an archaeological dig on Hobart's waterfront.

• Call for campaign to increase epilepsy awareness

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 3:56am EDT

  An epilepsy advocacy group says Australia needs more research to find better treatments and diagnoses of the brain disorder.

• Aged care finances still tight

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 3:56am EDT

  Tasmanian aged care providers are concerned that an increase in interest free loans from the Federal Government still will not fill the gaps in the sector.

• Indigenous grog culture can be changed: study

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 3:56am EDT

  The Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation has released new research that has found the drinking habits of Indigenous Australians are learned and can be changed.

• St John staff to continue industrial action

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 3:56am EDT

  Ambulance officers have held a stop work meeting and have vowed to continue their industrial action until they get a better pay offer.

• Canadian Greens leader apologises for not smoking pot

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 3:56am EDT

  The leader of Canada's Green Party has unveiled an election platform that includes a proposal to legalise marijuana, but has apologised for not having smoked the drug herself.

• Govt introduces organ donor bill

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 3:56am EDT

  The Federal Government has introduced a bill aimed at lifting organ donation rates in Australia.

• Qld hospital staff stage work bans over Govt's pay rise offer

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 3:56am EDT

  Hundreds of Queensland hospital administration staff will stop work today as part of a campaign for higher wages.

• Injured man told to drive 100 kms for treatment

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 3:56am EDT

  A man injured in a farm accident in western Victoria had to drive about 100 kilometres for medical attention.

• Chinese milk crisis: NZ part-owner decries 'abomination'

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 3:56am EDT

  The New Zealand milk company caught up in the Chinese milk powder crisis says it has a responsibility to help deal with what it calls a "criminal contamination".

• CLP attacks Govt commitment to regional health funding

  Fetched: September 18th, 2008, 3:56am EDT

  The member for Katherine says patients in regional hospitals will suffer if the Government doesn't ensure the continuation of a program that helps rural doctors.

• Smoking costing community $billions: report

  Fetched: September 17th, 2008, 8:12pm EDT

  
  A report commissioned by the Cancer Council has revealed smoking is costing the West Australian community $2.4 billion a year.

• Broncos deny Lockyer caught on tape

  Fetched: September 17th, 2008, 8:12pm EDT

  Brisbane Broncos chief executive Bruno Cullen says security vision allegedly showing captain Darren Lockyer tackling a manager outside a Brisbane bar is inconclusive and does not include footage of Lockyer.

• St John staff stop work to discuss pay deal

  Fetched: September 17th, 2008, 8:12pm EDT

  Paramedics will hold a stop work meeting this morning in an attempt to force St John Ambulance to increase its pay offer.

• China to test dairy products following deaths

  Fetched: September 17th, 2008, 1:53pm EDT

  China's cabinet has vowed to launch comprehensive tests of milk products and reform the industry, state media said, after three infants died and thousands were sickened in a spreading scandal.

• Authorities warn of AIDS surge in Aussie travellers

  Fetched: September 17th, 2008, 8:03am EDT

  Health authorities are being urged to step up safe sex education campaigns in an attempt to limit the number of Australian travellers who return home with HIV.

• 'Last resort' pain drug considered for SA emergencies

  Fetched: September 17th, 2008, 8:03am EDT

  The Ambulance Service in South Australia is considering trialing the analgesic drug ketamine as a last resort for patients in severe pain.

• Ambulance service defends response to triathlon collision

  Fetched: September 17th, 2008, 8:03am EDT

  The Queensland Ambulance Service says it is satisfied with its response to a weekend emergency in far north Queensland.

• Common plastic linked to heart disease

  Fetched: September 17th, 2008, 8:03am EDT

  Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical commonly used in plastic food and beverage containers and in the coating of food cans, has been linked to heart disease.

• Mental health shortage hits wider health system: AMA

  Fetched: September 17th, 2008, 8:03am EDT

  The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says a shortfall of emergency beds in South Australia is partly due to a shortage of mental health services.

• Drug study to lessen side effects

  Fetched: September 17th, 2008, 8:03am EDT

  The University of Tasmania's school of pharmacy has begun a million dollar study on the drug Warfarin.

• DOCS no longer responsible for hep B baby

  Fetched: September 17th, 2008, 8:03am EDT

  The Department of Community Services (DOCS) says it no longer has parental responsibility for a baby boy whose Sydney parents refused to have it vaccinated for hepatitis B.

• Three dead, 6,200 sick in China milk scandal

  Fetched: September 17th, 2008, 8:03am EDT

  Three babies have died and more than 6,200 others have fallen ill after drinking tainted milk powder in China, Health Minister Chen Zhu told reporters today.

• ADA welcomes dental reform halt

  Fetched: September 17th, 2008, 8:03am EDT

  The Australian Dental Association (ADA) has welcomed the Senate's decision to stop the Federal Government from scrapping the Medicare dental scheme for chronic care.

• HIV infector 'may change plea'

  Fetched: September 17th, 2008, 8:03am EDT

  The New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will be asked to consider an alternative charge for a man who pleaded guilty to infecting his former wife with HIV.

• Govt funding needed to combat increase in HIV infections

  Fetched: September 17th, 2008, 8:03am EDT

  Researchers say governments need to come up with new strategies to address the significant rise in the number of new HIV infections in Australia.

• Research shows increase in IVF babies

  Fetched: September 17th, 2008, 8:03am EDT

  More Australian couples are conceiving through fertility treatments, resulting in more healthy babies being born than ever before.

• Authorities fear more undetected Cairns HIV

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 8:13pm EDT

  Queensland medical authorities are concerned there may be more undetected cases of men in Cairns who have contracted HIV after travelling to Papua New Guinea.

• Mayor angry with operating theatre shutdown

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 8:13pm EDT

  A north-west Queensland Mayor says he is frustrated by the sudden closure of the Hughenden hospital's operating theatre.

• Tests to begin at high school over cancer cluster fears

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 8:13pm EDT

  Tests will begin during next week's school holidays at a south-east Queensland high school to see if there is a cancer cluster.

• Research shows spike in IVF babies

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 8:13pm EDT

  More Australian couples are conceiving through fertility treatments, resulting in more healthy babies being born than ever before.

• Senate throws road block at dental care scheme

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 8:13pm EDT

  The Federal Government has accused the Opposition of leaving pensioners out in the cold after the Coalition blocked part of Labor's dental reforms in the Senate last night.

• More Chinese baby milk powder brands contaminated: state TV

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 8:13pm EDT

  Chinese officials have discovered 22 companies have produced contaminated baby milk, state television said on Tuesday, in a dramatic escalation of the scandal that has already left two infants dead.

• 6 Cairns businessmen contract HIV in PNG

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 8:13pm EDT

  Health authorities say a cluster of Cairns men has contracted HIV after having unprotected sex with women in Papua New Guinea.

• Gas leak estate residents rubbish council offer

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 8:13pm EDT

  The residents of a Melbourne housing estate at the centre of a gas explosion scare will not have to pay their rates for a year under an offer by the local council.

• Environmental assessment ordered for 'cancer cluster' school

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 7:50am EDT

  An environmental assessment will be conducted later this month at a school, north of Brisbane, where concerns have been raised about a possible cancer cluster.

• Guide released to help parents judge sexual behaviour

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 7:50am EDT

  Family Planning Queensland has developed a guide to help parents, carers and teachers recognise what is appropriate sexual behaviour for different age groups.

• Australia in biosecurity 'hotspot'

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 7:50am EDT

  Australia is "encased by a ring of fire" with modelling by international experts showing Asia to be the most likely source of the next global infectious disease outbreak.

• Tooth stem cells give brain surgery hopes

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 7:50am EDT

  University of Adelaide researchers say they are close to repairing stroke-damaged brains using stem cells taken from teeth.

• Workplace injuries on the rise

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 7:50am EDT

  The message of workplace safety is not getting through to employers or workers, with the number of accidents higher this year than for more than a decade.

• Ten arrested over drug raids

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 7:50am EDT

  Victoria Police have arrested 10 people suspected of drug trafficking, in raids on homes in the Warrnambool area this morning.

• Alan Jones returns to work

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 7:50am EDT

  Radio broadcaster Alan Jones has returned to work two months after surgery for prostate cancer.

• Increase in whooping cough cases

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 7:50am EDT

  The Health Department says there has been a significant rise in the number of whooping cough cases in South Australia this year.

• Remote conditions 'caused election swings'

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 7:50am EDT

  The National Rural Health Alliance says recent election results in NT and WA highlight concerns over conditions in remote and regional Australia.

• Spirits industry confirms alcopops sales falling

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 7:50am EDT

  The Distilled Spirits Industry Council has confirmed there has been a substantial fall in alcopop sales since the Federal Government introduced a new tax on the drinks.

• Community will support strike: ambulance crews

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 7:50am EDT

  The union which represents ambulance officers says it expects the community will support industrial action planned for later this week.

• Wanganeen made youth ambassador

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 7:50am EDT

  Former Port Power captain Gavin Wanganeen has been appointed by the State Government as an Ambassador for Youth Opportunity.

• Qld Health to meet staff over Deception Bay cancer scare

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 7:50am EDT

  Officials from Queensland Health and Education Queensland will meet staff at the Deception Bay High School today to discuss their cancer concerns.

• Ambulance crews give NSW Govt 3-day strike ultimatum

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 7:50am EDT

  Ambulance officers say the New South Wales Government has three days to respond to industrial issues before they strike.

• Health care providers 'won't cope' with emissions trading costs

  Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 7:50am EDT

  A group representing hospitals and aged care services says the Federal Government will need to provide additional funding to help the sector cope with costs associated with an emissions trading scheme.

• Detention centre staff 'cracked' under conditions

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 7:53am EDT

  More than 60 former staff at Australian immigration detention centres have reported long-term mental health problems associated with the stress of the job.

• Baby milk powder sabotaged: Fonterra

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 7:53am EDT

  The New Zealand dairy company Fonterra says the contamination of milk formula responsible for the deaths of two babies in China is the result of sabotage.

• Vaccine could 'eradicate chlamydia in 20 years'

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 7:53am EDT

  A vaccine against the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia could wipe out the disease even if the vaccine is not perfect at protecting against infection, according to Australian researchers.

• ACT Labor pledges $3m to fight childhood obesity

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 7:53am EDT

  The ACT Labor Party has promised more than $3 million to tackle childhood obesity if it is re-elected next month.

• RFDS fly out to spider-bite victim

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 7:53am EDT

  The Royal Flying Doctor Service has come to the aid of two passengers on board separate Indian Pacific trains.

• Burnie road fatality

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 7:53am EDT

  An elderly man has been killed after his car hit a concrete wall in Burnie.

• Sober lesson for Liberal hopeful

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 7:53am EDT

  Tasmanian Liberal party hopeful Vanessa Goodwin says drinking wine on an empty stomach led to her losing her driver's licence.

• Burns brings forward RDH review

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 7:53am EDT

  A bi-annual review of Royal Darwin Hospital has been brought forward and the Health Minister Chris Burns says it will focus on management.

• Assault linked to brain injury increase

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 7:53am EDT

  A new report has found that a dramatic increase in assaults has led to a rise in the number of Australians with a traumatic brain injury.

• New medical group's report slams NT intervention

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 3:04am EDT

  A peak Indigenous medical organisation has described the legislation behind the intervention into Northern Territory Aboriginal affairs as deeply flawed.

• Brewers face challenge as Japanese lose taste for beer

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 3:04am EDT

  Times are tough for Japanese brewers as the country's increasingly health-conscious youth lose their taste for lager and cut back their drinking amid a gloomy economic outlook.

• Meningococcal victim critical

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 3:04am EDT

  An Adelaide man, 42, is in a critical condition in hospital with invasive meningococcal disease.

• Thousands 'missing out on cholesterol drugs'

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 3:04am EDT

  A study in today's Medical Journal of Australia suggests thousands of people who need cholesterol lowering drugs may be missing out.

• Inquest hears worker crushed by falling slab

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 3:04am EDT

  A court has heard of the final moments before a worker was crushed to death by a concrete slab on a Melbourne construction site four years ago.

• Hospital redevelopment not enough: Commerce Qld

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 3:04am EDT

  Queensland's peak business group says the Cairns Base Hospital, in the far north, will still be under pressure even after it is redeveloped.

• Laos jungle survivor leaves intensive care

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 3:04am EDT

  A Queensland man who survived 11 days lost in a jungle in Laos, is still unable to move his hands or feet but is out of intensive care in the Royal Brisbane Hospital.

• Indigenous Australians grog running: figures

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 3:04am EDT

  Northern Territory police figures show it's mostly Indigenous people who are summonsed for bringing alcohol into dry communities.

• Call to help autistic students

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 3:04am EDT

  An autism action group is concerned that autistic children are being forgotten in the debate on truancy.

• NZ firm in hot water over deadly Chinese baby formula

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 3:04am EDT

  New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra is being criticised for remaining tight-lipped about a scandal involving contaminated milk formula in China.

• Flu outbreak at nursing home

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 3:04am EDT

  A quarter of the residents at a Warrnambool nursing home have been affected by a flu outbreak.

• Push on for new Alice alcohol rehab centre

  Fetched: September 15th, 2008, 3:04am EDT

  An Alice Springs alderman will ask the town council to pressure the Northern Territory Government to build another alcohol rehabilitation facility in the town.

• More violence at Melbourne clubs

  Fetched: September 14th, 2008, 7:45pm EDT

  Victoria Police are investigating a series of alcohol-related assaults at a Melbourne bar overnight.

• Bligh downplays doctor quitting Logan hospital

  Fetched: September 14th, 2008, 7:45pm EDT

  Premier Anna Bligh has played down the resignation of an emergency department doctor from the Logan Hospital, south of Brisbane.

• Goody undergoes cancer surgery

  Fetched: September 14th, 2008, 7:45pm EDT

  British TV personality Jade Goody has undergone cancer surgery.

• Woman dies from suspected meningococcal

  Fetched: September 14th, 2008, 7:45pm EDT

  A New South Wales Hunter Valley woman has died in her home from a suspected case of meningococcal disease.

• SA urged to give blood

  Fetched: September 14th, 2008, 7:45pm EDT

  South Australian Cabinet Ministers will donate blood at Ridgehaven today to help promote a Red Cross campaign for more donors.

• Petrol sniffing fears spark call for mine town closure

  Fetched: September 14th, 2008, 7:45pm EDT

  A women's council representing Aboriginal communities in central Australia says it wants the town of Mintabie, in far north South Australia, shut down.

• NZ dairy giant knew of China milk taint in Aug

  Fetched: September 14th, 2008, 4:50pm EDT

  New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra says it knew last month its Chinese joint venture partner was selling contaminated milk which has since caused at least one death.

• Prostate cancer diagnoses up, deaths down: study

  Fetched: September 14th, 2008, 4:50pm EDT

  A major study of prostate cancer patients has found more men are being diagnosed with the disease, but fewer are dying from it.

• Figures show ACT health system 'improving'

  Fetched: September 14th, 2008, 4:50pm EDT

  The ACT Government says its investment in the health system is starting to pay dividends.

• Be aware of signs leading to stroke:Giddings

  Fetched: September 14th, 2008, 4:50pm EDT

  Tasmanians are being urged to be aware of the warning signs of stroke, the nation's second biggest killer.

• Govt criticised over children's hospital decision

  Fetched: September 14th, 2008, 4:50pm EDT

  There has been an angry reaction from some clinicians to a decision to locate the state's new children's hospital at the Mater medical precinct in South Brisbane.

• St John pay row

  Fetched: September 14th, 2008, 4:50pm EDT

  The union representing WA's ambulance officers has headed off an attempt by St John Ambulance to terminate the bargaining period for the new Enterprise Agreement and head directly to arbitration.

• Baby dies from Chinese milk powder contamination

  Fetched: September 14th, 2008, 4:50pm EDT

  One baby has died and 432 others have fallen ill with kidney problems blamed on contaminated milk powder in China.

• Bad milk powder affecting 432 Chinese babies: minister

  Fetched: September 14th, 2008, 4:50pm EDT

  
  Some 432 Chinese babies have developed kidney stones blamed on contaminated milk powder, Health Minister Gao Qiang said, adding the manufacturer had been ordered to halt production.

• Lawyer calls for improvements to Garibaldi victims' medical agreements

  Fetched: September 13th, 2008, 12:38am EDT

  An Adelaide lawyer who is representing 20 people affected by the 1995 Garibaldi food poisoning outbreak says he wants to improve aspects of their lifetime medical care agreement.

• Residents consider legal action over 'methane development'

  Fetched: September 12th, 2008, 11:08pm EDT

  The Casey Council in Melbourne is yet to comment on revelations that an out-of-court settlement paved the way for a housing development near a council tip at Cranbourne, that could force residents from their homes.

• China blames milk suppliers in baby health scare

  Fetched: September 12th, 2008, 1:12pm EDT

  China has questioned 78 people in a health scare involving tainted baby milk formula linked to the death of one infant and the development of kidney stones in dozens of others across the country, state media said.

• UN figures show slight drop in young child deaths

  Fetched: September 12th, 2008, 11:08am EDT

  The United Nations Children's Fund says more than 9 million children died last year before reaching their fifth birthday.

• Investigation into medical files

  Fetched: September 12th, 2008, 11:08am EDT

  A federal government office will investigate the management of disused medical files in South Australia after concerns were raised about a large number of private medical records at a rented home in Adelaide.