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• Transplant first a giant leap for surgery

  Posted: November 18th, 2008, 9:44pm EST by Red Wolf

  Doctors have successfully carried out the world's first airway transplant on a young woman using an organ partly grown from her own stem cells in a groundbreaking operation which scientists believe will transform the future of surgery.

• Cancer patients want to know about high cost drugs: survey

  Posted: November 17th, 2008, 11:26pm EST by Red Wolf

  Australian cancer patients say they want to be told about expensive new drugs, even if they cannot afford to take them.

• Diabetic teens skipping insulin to lose weight: research

  Posted: November 13th, 2008, 7:57pm EST by Red Wolf

  New research has found thousands of young Australians with diabetes regularly skip their insulin so they can lose weight.

• 'Elixir of youth' drug could fight HIV and ageing

  Posted: November 13th, 2008, 5:51pm EST by Red Wolf

  A drug extracted from a plant used in Chinese medicine has helped immune cells fight HIV and raises the possibility of slowing the ageing process in other parts of our bodies.

• Paranoia on the rise, experts say

  Posted: November 13th, 2008, 4:49pm EST by Red Wolf

  If you think they're out to get you, you're not alone. Paranoia, once assumed to afflict only schizophrenics, may be a lot more common than previously thought.

• Older couples 'use condoms less'

  Posted: November 13th, 2008, 4:10pm EST by Red Wolf

  Couples who meet in their 30s or 40s are less likely to use condoms than younger counterparts, a study suggests.

• Window into cancer-spread secrets

  Posted: November 10th, 2008, 10:04pm EST by Red Wolf

  A technique which literally places a window in a mouse's chest could help scientists unlock cancer's most mysterious and deadly process. US scientists were able to keep a mouse alive for 21 days with the tiny piece of glass in place.

• Life In The Time Of Cholera

  Posted: November 6th, 2008, 5:30am EST by Red Wolf

  These are translations of the blog posts made by a female student at the Hainan University (October 31, 2008)

• Probiotics 'may stop pneumonia'

  Posted: November 6th, 2008, 4:45am EST by Red Wolf

  Probiotics could be used to protect critically ill patients from developing pneumonia, according to scientists. The friendly bacteria can block the colonisation by dangerous bugs of the airways of ventilated patients, the Swedish study concluded.

• Teens hold highest spinal defect pregnancy rates

  Posted: November 5th, 2008, 3:17am EST by Red Wolf

  A new report shows teenage women have the highest rates of pregnancies where the babies are affected by spinal cord defects.

• Caffeine linked to low birth weight

  Posted: November 4th, 2008, 1:37am EST by Red Wolf

  Pregnant women should keep consumption of coffee, tea and cola to a minimum, according to a new study that sees a link between caffeine intake and low birth weight among babies.

• Rainfall autism theory suggested

  Posted: November 3rd, 2008, 8:11pm EST by Red Wolf

  Increased rainfall, or something linked to it, may be connected to the development of autism, scientists say. The theory is based on child health and weather records from three US states, but has been greeted cautiously by a UK research charity.

• DNA clue to child brain tumours

  Posted: November 1st, 2008, 6:34am EDT by Red Wolf

  Scientists at Cambridge University have made a major breakthrough researching brain tumours in children. For the first time a sequence of DNA present in around two-thirds of the most common tumour has been pinpointed.

• New tests to 'help predict menopause' for hopeful mothers

  Posted: November 1st, 2008, 1:27am EDT by Red Wolf

  A new test is meant to be able to predict when menopause will begin, providing women more insight into their reproductive life. By testing hormone levels in blood, scientists say they can identify at what age a woman's reproductive cycle is likely to end.

• Chief did unlicensed surgery

  Posted: October 31st, 2008, 6:50pm EDT by Red Wolf

  THE Alfred hospital allowed its former trauma chief to operate on patients' vital organs despite his medical licence restricting him to orthopedic surgery.

• Old blood 'boosts infection risk'

  Posted: October 29th, 2008, 8:58am EDT by Red Wolf

  Storing donated blood too long increases the chance of an infection, US researchers claim. The risk of blood poisoning or pneumonia doubled once the 29-day mark passed, Cooper University Hospital in New Jersey found.

• Screening hope for pre-eclampsia

  Posted: October 27th, 2008, 11:33pm EDT by Red Wolf

  A blood test that screens pregnant woman for pre-eclampsia long before symptoms develop could be available in the next five years, doctors predict.

• Cyanide scare prompts Japan meat recall

  Posted: October 26th, 2008, 7:48pm EDT by Red Wolf

  A Japanese meat processing company says it is recalling millions of sausages and pizzas after the poisonous chemical cyanide was found in water at one of its plants.

• Foster carousel harming children

  Posted: October 26th, 2008, 6:24pm EDT by Red Wolf

  HUNDREDS of vulnerable children who cannot live with their parents are being shifted around the foster care system, creating greater instability for children who may already be traumatised.

• First HIV organ transplant in SAfrica

  Posted: October 24th, 2008, 11:20pm EDT by Red Wolf

  The world's first organ transplants from an HIV-positive donor to HIV-positive recipients took place in Cape Town recently, South Africa's Mail & Guardian weekly newspaper reported Friday.

• 'One-stop' embryo test unveiled

  Posted: October 24th, 2008, 7:53am EDT by Red Wolf

  A gene mapping test could tell parents-to-be if embryos are affected by almost any inherited disease, UK scientists have claimed. The team from London's Bridge Centre say the £1,500 test could detect any of the 15,000 inherited diseases in weeks.

• 'Fart gas' link to blood pressure

  Posted: October 24th, 2008, 2:58am EDT by Red Wolf

  The gas best known for being used in many stink bombs may also control blood pressure, say US researchers. Small amounts of hydrogen sulphide - a toxic gas generated by bacteria living in the human gut - are responsible for the foul odour of flatulence.

• Junk food censorship pledge hard to swallow: nutritionists

  Posted: October 24th, 2008, 2:55am EDT by Red Wolf

  Nutritionists have reacted sceptically to a pledge from food and beverage manufacturers not to advertise junk food products to children.

• Woman's fishy-smelling mystery solved

  Posted: October 22nd, 2008, 4:00am EDT by Red Wolf

  A WOMAN who spent four decades puzzled by a pungent body odour "resembling rotting fish" has finally had the smell explained by Australian doctors.

• Job choice 'affects Alzheimer's'

  Posted: October 21st, 2008, 7:29am EDT by Red Wolf

  Going to university, then choosing a mentally demanding job may help protect the brain from the devastating impact of Alzheimer's disease on memory.

• Bacterium 'to blame for Crohn's'

  Posted: October 21st, 2008, 3:56am EDT by Red Wolf

  Researchers believe the lack of a specific bacterium in the gut may be a cause of Crohn's disease. A shortage of naturally-occurring bacteria is thought to trigger the inflammatory gastrointestinal disorder by over-stimulating the immune system.

• Why Dubbo's gone to dogs

  Posted: October 16th, 2008, 6:39am EDT by Red Wolf

  NURSES have been forced to borrow bandages and medical equipment from a vet to use on patients at Dubbo Base Hospital. The lack of supplies at the hospital has reached crisis point because of the Health Department's failure to pay millions of dollars in bills.

• $2 egg-beater could save lives in developing countries

  Posted: October 16th, 2008, 5:56am EDT by Red Wolf

  An egg beater could provide diagnosis plasma and replace expensive centrifuges where electricity and maintenance training are scarce

• Man 'roused from coma' by a magnetic field

  Posted: October 16th, 2008, 5:44am EDT by Red Wolf

  But Pape had a different suggestion. She enrolled him in a six-week study in which an electromagnetic coil was held over the front of his head to stimulate the underlying brain tissue.

• Parkinson's linked to vitamin D

  Posted: October 13th, 2008, 10:18pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Scientists are testing whether vitamin D supplements can ease symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

• World's first double arm transplant patient delighted

  Posted: October 12th, 2008, 5:17pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Karl Merk, a German dairy farmer whose arms had been amputated after an accident, said he felt like a "whole man" again as he spoke for the first time since the operation in July.

• Pollution linked to appendicitis

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 6:53pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Air pollution may increase the risk of appendicitis, research suggests. If the appendix becomes inflammed it must be removed surgically to avoid the risk that it will burst, and put the patient's life at risk.

• Exposure to chemical may affect genitals of baby boys - USATODAY.com

  Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 6:45pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Baby boys are more likely to have changes in their genitals — such as undescended testicles and smaller penises — if their mothers were exposed to high levels of a controversial chemical during pregnancy, a new study shows.

• Japan experts find genetic clues to narcolepsy

  Posted: September 29th, 2008, 5:56am EDT by Red Wolf

  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.

• Giving birth made me psychotic says Rachel Brand

  Posted: September 28th, 2008, 8:43pm EDT by Red Wolf

  After giving birth Rachel Brand fell victim to post-natal depression. But she was also suffering from a much rarer condition - a discovery that came only after she made several attempts to kill herself

• Nuts! Allergy advice feeding crisis

  Posted: September 26th, 2008, 10:54pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Stopping very young children from eating foods such as eggs, shellfish and peanuts may not prevent them developing allergies and might even be responsible for a dramatic increase in severe food reactions, say leading specialist doctors, who are calling for a rethink of the food e …

• Karen Hanrahan: 1996 McDonalds Hamburger

  Posted: September 26th, 2008, 8:19pm EDT by Red Wolf

  This is a hamburger from McDonalds that I purchased in 1996. That was 12 years ago. Note that it looks exactly like it did the very day I bought it. The flecks on the bun are crumbs from the bun. The burger is starting to crumble a bit It has the oddest smell.

• Court grants 12-year-old an abortion

  Posted: September 26th, 2008, 6:17am EDT by Red Wolf

  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. The unnamed girl is almost 18 weeks pregnant and is a patient at a Queensland public hospital.

• Autism 'may be missed in girls'

  Posted: September 18th, 2008, 8:23am EDT by Red Wolf

  Girls with mild autism are less likely to be identified and diagnosed than boys, a study suggests. Researchers examined 493 boys and 100 girls with autistic spectrum disorders.

• ADA welcomes dental reform halt

  Posted: September 17th, 2008, 12:08am EDT by Red Wolf

  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.

• Lavender 'calms dental patients'

  Posted: September 14th, 2008, 6:07am EDT by Red Wolf

  It soothes headaches and aids sleep - now lavender has been shown to help cope with a trip to the dentist. A study of 340 people by King's College London researchers found those exposed to lavender oil scent were less anxious about the treatment ahead.

• Prostate cancer diagnoses up, deaths down: study

  Posted: September 14th, 2008, 5:57am EDT by Red Wolf

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

• Cairns earmarked for IVF 'resort'

  Posted: September 11th, 2008, 6:16pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Medicine and tourism will soon be combined in a luxury in-vitro fertilisation clinic that is being set up in far north Queensland.

• Medicare should help private patients too: expert

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 7:33am EDT by Red Wolf

  A professor from the Australian National University (ANU) is calling for Medicare to be extended to include private hospital patients.

• Bilingual children more likely to stutter

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 7:30am EDT by Red Wolf

  Children who are bilingual before the age of 5 are significantly more likely to stutter and to find it harder to lose their impediment, than children who speak only one language before this age, suggests research published ahead of print in Archives of Disease in Childhood.

• Venomous clues in lung bug battle

  Posted: September 8th, 2008, 12:32am EDT by Red Wolf

  Bacterial colonies in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients use chemicals found in snake venom to attack them, say UK researchers. The Pseudomonas bug lives in "biofilm" communities in the lungs, becoming resistant to antibiotics and increasingly hard to treat.

• Call to ban childrens' food additives

  Posted: September 7th, 2008, 8:16pm EDT by Red Wolf

  An open letter calling for several food additives to be banned is being sent to Australia's food regulator today. The letter, signed by more than 100 health, education and dietary experts, has been organised by a national coalition called the Kids First campaign.

• Vein tubes 'fitted needlessly'

  Posted: September 7th, 2008, 12:52am EDT by Red Wolf

  A third of patients have unnecessary tubes inserted into veins when they are in hospital, pharmacists have warned. Researchers from Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University said this needlessly exposed them to serious complications, such as infections and blood clots.

• Universal flu vaccine tests start

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 7:00am EDT by Red Wolf

  A universal flu vaccine which could mean an end to the annual jab is being tested on UK volunteers. It targets a different part of the virus to current vaccines, which means it does not have to be altered every year to match circulating strains.

• Roman Empire 'raised HIV threat'

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 6:26am EDT by Red Wolf

  The spread of the Roman Empire through Europe could help explain why those living in its former colonies are more vulnerable to HIV. The claim, by French researchers, is that people once ruled by Rome are less likely to have a gene variant which protects against HIV.

• Hopes raised for block on cancer

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 1:13am EDT by Red Wolf

  Scientists say they have taken a big step towards blocking a chemical vital to the growth of many cancers. They have unpicked the structure of telomerase, an enzyme which, when active, helps keep cells in an "immortal" state.

• Encephalitis outbreak kills 200 in India

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 1:12am EDT by Red Wolf

  Nearly 200 people, mostly children, have died in an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, health officials say.

• 'Ibuprofen best' for child fevers

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 8:55pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Ibuprofen is better at alleviating childhood fever than paracetamol and should be the drug of first choice, say UK researchers.

• Vets welcome Hendra virus review

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 8:06pm EDT by Red Wolf

  The Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) has welcomed an independent review of the handling of the most recent outbreak of Hendra virus in Queensland.

• Older fathers linked with bipolar

  Posted: September 1st, 2008, 9:43pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Older fathers are more likely to have children with bipolar disorder, research suggests. The risk goes up when men are older than 29 before they start their family, and is highest if they are over 55.

• Reality TV blamed for cosmetic surgery rise

  Posted: August 31st, 2008, 7:03am EDT by Red Wolf

  Extreme makeover and weight loss shows are fuelling a surge in the number of Australians going under the knife to dramatically change their appearance, psychologists have warned.

• Women warned not to wear perfume during pregnancy

  Posted: August 31st, 2008, 5:43am EDT by Red Wolf

  PREGNANT women have been advised to avoid using perfumes or scented body creams after research suggested the products can cause unborn boys to suffer infertility or cancer in later life.

• Culture of surveillance may contribute to delusional condition

  Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:46am EDT by Red Wolf

  Psychosis in the 21st century looks something like this: You think your every move is being filmed for a reality television show starring you, and that everyone in your life is an actor.

• Boy has shoulder made from elbow

  Posted: August 30th, 2008, 1:31am EDT by Red Wolf

  A teenage cancer patient has undergone successful surgery to rebuild his shoulder using his elbow. Tom Lemm, 15, from Pontefract, had his left arm amputated by surgeons at Leeds General Hospital because of a tumour at the top of the limb.

• Brain injuries in U.S. combat veterans largely undiagnosed

  Posted: August 28th, 2008, 4:32pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Owsley is part of a growing tide of combat veterans who come home from Iraq and Afghanistan with mild traumatic brain injuries, or concussions, caused by powerful explosions.

• Drug 'may slow down Parkinson's'

  Posted: August 27th, 2008, 6:18am EDT by Red Wolf

  Early use of medication may be able to slow down progression of Parkinson's disease, preliminary research suggests.

• Treatment to stop blindness finally approved for NHS

  Posted: August 26th, 2008, 8:22pm EDT by Red Wolf

  An expensive new drug that could prevent thousands of people from going blind is today approved for use on the NHS after more than two years of deliberations.

• Aggressive TB treatment success

  Posted: August 24th, 2008, 9:27pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Tuberculosis which is resistant to many current treatments can be overcome with aggressive therapy, research suggests.

• Health care as a right is hard sell

  Posted: August 24th, 2008, 6:49am EDT by Red Wolf

  What is it like to be sick outside of the United States?

• Court order to immunise child

  Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 7:42pm EDT by Red Wolf

  The New South Wales Department of Community Services has taken out a Supreme Court order to force the parents of a three-day-old baby to immunise the child against Hepatitis B.

• Calls for regional cancer centres

  Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 4:08am EDT by Red Wolf

  The Cancer Council is calling for cancer treatment centres to be built across regional Australia.

• Aust doctors perform breakthrough heart surgery

  Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 4:05am EDT by Red Wolf

  A revolutionary procedure which will reduce the need for open heart surgery in older people has been conducted for the first time in Australia.

• Face transplant 'double success'

  Posted: August 21st, 2008, 10:19pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Successful results from two more face transplants will speed progress towards similar operations in other countries, say experts. The Lancet journal reported operations involving a bear attack victim in China, and a French patient with a massive facial tumour had taken place.

• Bodybuilder scarred from steroids

  Posted: August 21st, 2008, 10:16pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Anyone considering using steroids to bulk up may want to think again after seeing pictures of the horrific scars suffered by one young bodybuilder. German doctors were shocked at the extent of the massive, deep ulcerating sores on the chest and back of the 21-year-old man.

• Sex workers seek health help

  Posted: August 21st, 2008, 7:16am EDT by Red Wolf

  The body representing Australian sex workers is calling on the State Government to provide better health information services for its members.

• Fibrosis drug could end dialysis: doctor

  Posted: August 17th, 2008, 8:31pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Melbourne researchers have developed a drug that could prevent a condition associated with up to 45 per cent of diseases in the developed world.

• Tas doctors find link between cystic fibrosis, diabetes

  Posted: August 17th, 2008, 7:01pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Tasmanian doctors are hoping the realisation of a link between cystic fibrosis and another chronic disease will help them improve sufferers' life expectancy.

• Tom Hodgkinson: The joy of simply faffing around

  Posted: August 15th, 2008, 6:33am EDT by Red Wolf

  A new report says that we waste three hours a day faffing around, doing nothing in particular, pootling, dawdling, pottering, hanging about.

• Patient details in missing diary

  Posted: August 14th, 2008, 3:21am EDT by Red Wolf

  A midwife's diary containing names and addresses of hundreds of mothers and pregnant women has gone missing from a health trust in Greater Manchester.

• New mouth bacteria species found

  Posted: August 14th, 2008, 12:40am EDT by Red Wolf

  A brand new species of bacteria has been found by scientists among the hundreds which thrive in our mouths. The bug, named "Prevotella histicola" by its discoverers at King's College London, is thought to contribute to gum disease and tooth decay.

• Man walks again with help of medical 'super glue'

  Posted: August 12th, 2008, 3:46am EDT by Red Wolf

  A medical form of super glue is being credited with helping a Brisbane man walk again after his legs were paralysed. Chris Henkel, 34, from Birkdale today thanked doctors at the Royal Brisbane Hospital who treated him for the rare disorder, spinal duraol fistual.

• Cell change 'keeps organs young'

  Posted: August 11th, 2008, 8:13pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Researchers may have found a way to halt the biological clock which slows down our bodies over the decades. A US team thinks it may have found the genetic levers to help boost a system vital to cleaning up faulty proteins within our cells.

• Christian Aid Haitian partner selected for UNAIDS Red Ribbon Award 2008

  Posted: August 10th, 2008, 7:38am EDT by Red Wolf

  More than one in ten people are HIV positive in the area where POZ works. By running ground-breaking projects reaching out to voodoo priests, doctors and midwives, POZ has been working to break down the stigma attached the virus.

• Doctors not crazy about 'designer vagina' craze

  Posted: August 1st, 2008, 10:26pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Australian doctors have raised concerns about clinics offering vaginal cosmetic surgery, warning the trend towards so-called "designer vaginas" may be exploiting vulnerable women.

• Alzheimer's drug 'halts' decline

  Posted: July 29th, 2008, 5:57pm EDT by Red Wolf

  UK scientists have developed a drug which may halt the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Trials of the drug, known as rember, in 321 patients showed an 81% difference in rate of mental decline compared with those not taking the treatment.

• Statins 'may cut dementia risk'

  Posted: July 29th, 2008, 8:42am EDT by Red Wolf

  Scientists have found further evidence that taking commonly used cholesterol- lowering statins may protect against dementia and memory loss.

• Hour's exercise 'to lose weight'

  Posted: July 29th, 2008, 8:28am EDT by Red Wolf

  Women who want to lose weight - and keep it off - need to be exercising for almost an hour, five days a week, according to US experts. The University of Pittsburgh study found the 55-minute regime was the minimum needed to maintain a 10% drop in weight.

• Vaccine against meningococcal in sight

  Posted: July 27th, 2008, 6:51pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Australian medical researchers say a vaccine which protects infants against four types of the deadly meningococcal bacteria should be on the market within five years.

• No need for Aust trans fat ban: food regulator

  Posted: July 26th, 2008, 5:19am EDT by Red Wolf

  The regulatory body that sets food standards in Australia says there is no need at this stage to ban food outlets from selling food that has trans fats added to it.

• HIV drugs 'add 13 years of life'

  Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am EDT by Red Wolf

  Life expectancy for people with HIV has increased by an average of 13 years since the late 1990s thanks to better HIV treatment, a study says. Researchers said it meant HIV was now effectively a chronic condition like diabetes, rather than a fatal disease, the Lancet reported.

• Dog lick costs leg, toes, fingers

  Posted: July 24th, 2008, 8:19pm EDT by Red Wolf

  A woman is rebuilding her life from losing all her toes, fingers and a leg after being licked by a dog. Julie McKenna from Mildura in Victoria was rushed to the Royal Adelaide Hospital last year after her small terrier licked a superficial burn on her left foot.

• Dementia patients' memory probed

  Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 9:02am EDT by Red Wolf

  People with dementia may remember more than it first appears, according to researchers in Dundee and Fife.

• Doctors 'miss early HIV symptoms'

  Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 7:23am EDT by Red Wolf

  HIV is being spread because doctors overlook symptoms which could reveal the infection, a charity claims. The National Aids Trust said as many as half of all early-stage infections, often marked by severe flu-like symptoms, are being missed.

• Doctors face loss of licence in annual assessments

  Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 7:06am EDT by Red Wolf

  Britain's 150,000 doctors are to face annual assessments to identify poor performers who will be stripped of their licences, under a proposal to be outlined today.

• Aborigines 'waiting up to three months to see doctors'

  Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 6:36am EDT by Red Wolf

  Aborigines in remote communities are waiting up to three months for local access to a doctor, official figures show.

• GPs told to cut antibiotics usage

  Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 9:01pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Doctors in England and Wales are being told not to hand out antibiotics for common coughs and colds to help save the NHS millions of pounds a year. The over-prescription of antibiotics has been linked to the development of "superbugs" that resist treatment.

• GPs told to cut antibiotics usage

  Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 8:01pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Doctors in England and Wales are being told not to hand out antibiotics for common coughs and colds to help save the NHS millions of pounds a year. The over-prescription of antibiotics has been linked to the development of "superbugs" that resist treatment.

• Skin cancer fear 'may harm bones'

  Posted: July 20th, 2008, 9:07pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Worries over skin cancer means that some people are shunning the sun altogether - which could endanger their health, a poll has found.

• Poison kiss: lead alert

  Posted: July 19th, 2008, 11:39pm EDT by Red Wolf

  WOMEN are being warned about using some lipsticks after concerns were raised several big-name brands could contain lead.

• Antibiotics crackdown in war on superbugs

  Posted: July 19th, 2008, 10:27pm EDT by Red Wolf

  MEDICINES for hospital patients are to be rationed under radical new plans to halt the spread of killer superbugs. New guidance has been issued to doctors and nurses urging them to cut and delay doses of commonly prescribed antibiotics because of their role in the rise of hospit …

• Autism parents 'infection risk'

  Posted: July 19th, 2008, 8:40pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Caring for children with developmental problems such as autism or Down's syndrome can weaken parents' immune systems, research suggests. Researchers at Birmingham University found they had a poorer immune response to a vaccine against pneumonia.

• Surgeons pull kidneys out through volunteers' belly-buttons

  Posted: July 18th, 2008, 6:48am EDT by Red Wolf

  Removing a kidney through a small incision inside the navel reduces the pain, scarring and recovery time that may discourage some donors, the surgeon who pioneered the technique said overnight.

• Asthma risk from pregnancy nuts

  Posted: July 15th, 2008, 8:00am EDT by Red Wolf

  Mothers-to-be who eat nuts every day may increase their child's risk of developing asthma by 50%, claim Dutch researchers. Nearly 4,000 pregnant women completed diet questionnaires, and their children were monitored for eight years.

• Exercise 'slows down Alzheimer's'

  Posted: July 14th, 2008, 8:49pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Being physically fit could hold back the advance of Alzheimer's disease, US researchers have suggested. Their study, published in the journal Neurology, looked at 121 people aged over 60, around half of them in the early stages of the disease.

• Litany of surgical blunders revealed

  Posted: July 14th, 2008, 5:48am EDT by Red Wolf

  The cases of 14 brain surgery patients who were the victims of catastrophic errors when neurosurgeons operated on the wrong side of the head are to spearhead a government drive to make operations safer.

• Gut, cervical cancer research

  Posted: July 14th, 2008, 5:46am EDT by Red Wolf

  Research is underway at Tasmania's Launceston General Hospital into whether the vaccine used to prevent cervical cancer could also prevent cancer in the lower gut.

• Hereditary diabetes ignorance widespread: study

  Posted: July 12th, 2008, 11:58pm EDT by Red Wolf

  A national survey has found that most people with a family history of type two diabetes do not realise it is hereditary.

• Autism Genes That Control Early Learning

  Posted: July 12th, 2008, 11:54pm EDT by Red Wolf

  A new genetic analysis of large, inbred Middle Eastern families found that genes linked to a heightened risk of autism are crucial to a child's ability to learn.

• HIV children turned away from schools

  Posted: July 12th, 2008, 11:49pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Children with Aids-related HIV are being turned away and excluded from primary and secondary schools throughout the UK in contravention of anti-discrimination laws.

• Retinal transplant boosts vision

  Posted: July 12th, 2008, 11:47pm EDT by Red Wolf

  An experimental transplant of cells into the eyes of patients with failing sight improved vision in most of them, US researchers say. The retinal cells, taken from aborted foetuses, were implanted into 10 people with retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration.

• Nursing home deaths spark call for aged care scrutiny

  Posted: July 12th, 2008, 4:15am EDT by Red Wolf

  The deaths of 10 people in a nursing home in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney have sparked calls for greater scrutiny of the aged care industry.

• Doctors pull screws, nails from metal-eating man

  Posted: July 11th, 2008, 11:40pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Doctors in a coastal town in north-western Peru have rescued the innards of a 38-year-old man by removing 17 metal objects - among them nails, a watch clasp and a knife - that he ate.

• Male cyclists risk sexual problems if they don't choose the right bike

  Posted: July 11th, 2008, 7:11pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Men who take up cycling in an effort to stay fit, do their bit for the environment or avoid spiralling motoring costs, could be harming their health if they don't choose the right bicycle.

• Australia looks to Europe for organ donation model

  Posted: July 8th, 2008, 6:22am EDT by Red Wolf

  Australia's medical sector is looking to Europe for ways to address alarmingly low levels of organ donations. The nation lags behind most developed countries, with international experts claiming a better system and approaches to grieving families is critical.

• Tell donor children early in life

  Posted: July 7th, 2008, 8:15pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Children conceived using sperm donors should be told of their origins at an early age, research suggests. A Cambridge University team talked to 165 children conceived this way, and found those not told until the age of 18 often felt shock and anger.

• Permanence urged for Australia's injecting room

  Posted: July 6th, 2008, 9:37pm EDT by Red Wolf

  The operators of Australia's only legal drug injecting room are appealing for the Sydney facility to be given permanent status after its director resigned in frustration.

• Gender 'impacts on transplants'

  Posted: July 4th, 2008, 11:39pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Women who get a replacement kidney from a male donor are more likely to reject the new organ, scientists suggest. Swiss researchers looked at almost 200,000 operations, finding an 8% increase in the chance of failure when male kidneys were given to women.

• Cold sore virus secret revealed

  Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 5:58am EDT by Red Wolf

  The secret of how the cold sore virus manages to persist for a lifetime in the human body may have been cracked by US scientists. The herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) can lie dormant in facial nerves, emerging periodically to cause sores.

• Mediterranean diet 'cuts cancer'

  Posted: July 1st, 2008, 10:09pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Adopting just a couple of elements of the Mediterranean diet could cut the risk of cancer by 12%, say scientists. A study of 26,000 Greek people found just using more olive oil alone cut the risk by 9%.

• Smoking ban has saved 40,000 lives

  Posted: June 30th, 2008, 6:46am EDT by Red Wolf

  The nationwide smoking ban has triggered the biggest fall in smoking ever seen in England, a report says today.

• Who Says Kids Make You Happy?

  Posted: June 29th, 2008, 7:17pm EDT by Red Wolf

  When I was growing up, our former neighbors, whom we'll call the Sloans, were the only couple on the block without kids. It wasn't that they couldn't have children; according to Mr. Sloan, they just chose not to.

• Gough Whitlam in hospital

  Posted: June 29th, 2008, 7:03pm EDT by Red Wolf

  Former prime minister Gough Whitlam is being treated at St Vincent's private hospital in Sydney.

• A 60-year revolution in surgery

  Posted: June 29th, 2008, 7:02pm EDT by Red Wolf

  In the six decades since the birth of the NHS, treatment has changed almost beyond recognition. What was the stuff of fantasy in 1948, such as organ transplants, is now routine.

• Free gene testing could improve lives of thousands

  Posted: June 29th, 2008, 12:25am EDT by Red Wolf

  A COSTLY test to detect a genetic abnormality that can cause life-threatening spinal conditions, premature arthritis, blindness and deafness will now be offered to Victorians free.