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The ages and stages of diabetes
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1365 – The ages and stages of diabetes
No 1365, 3 July 2013
Worldwide, the number of adults with diabetes has more than doubled over the past 30 years. According to a study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in conjunction with the World Health Organisation, almost 350 million people now have the fastest-growing chronic health condition. These are sobering statistics a...
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Adding Salt to Injury
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1366 – Adding in salt to injury
No 1366, 10 July 2013
The old English proverb would have us believe that “time heals all wounds”. The statement is somewhat debatable, even with emotional wounds, because what we actually do in the time immediately after the injury occurs might be more likely to significantly influence the healing process. And with physical injuries, th...
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Mosquitoes - more than a minor inconvenience
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1353 – Mosquitoes – more than a minor inconvenience
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When, later this month, most of us in Australia and New Zealand will be reflecting on the service provided by the men and women in our armed forces, much of the rest of the world will focus its attention on a tiny insect which, over centuries, has changed the course of history and in the process killed more people than all ...
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Bidding Farewell to Thrush
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1355 – Bidding farewell to thrush – 24th April 2013
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Fungi live with us – both on us and inside us – in enormous numbers; usually quite happily and generally without causing any harm at all. But now and again their presence can be quite problematic; more especially when the balance of power is disturbed amongst all those micro-organisms residing on and in our body...
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It's Time to Control Asthma
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1356 – It’s time to control asthma – 1st May 2013
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World Asthma Day is an annual event organised on the first Tuesday in May by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) to raise awareness and improve the care of asthma. This year GINA is continuing with the theme “you can control your asthma”, but now with the addition of “it’s time for control&rd...
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Smoking and Blindness
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1357 – Where there’s smoke, there’s sometimes blindness
We all know that smoking is a major risk factor for many diseases including heart and blood vessel disease, osteoporosis and various cancers.
Perhaps less well known is the fact that smoking causes blindness. Smokers and people who have smoked are three times more likely to develop macular degeneration.
The ...
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Flu Vaccine - how needs it?
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Flu vaccine; who really needs it? 20th March 2013 No. 1350
Each year in Australia, influenza causes an estimated 3,000 deaths in older people. There are also the economic costs to the community of more than one and a half million lost work days, 300,000 doctor visits and 18,000 people admitted to hospital.
However, it’s not just older people who are affected by the flu. T...
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Heading off head lice
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It’s normally considered that cockroaches and crocodiles are the great survivors from the dim distant past; but it appears even the humble head louse has been around for over 100,000 years. As irritating as head lice are, they are essentially harmless and there are even suggestions that they may be beneficial in stimulating some natural immunity against the much more dangerous body louse.Hea...
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Some South American help to manage arthritis
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Some South American help to manage arthritis 6th March 2013 No. 1348Llamas are domesticated animals native to the Americas and from the same family as camels and alpacas. Unlike alpacas, bred mostly for their fibre, lamas are more like camels in as much as they are widely used as pack animals.Now, it seems llamas may be able to help unlock the key to the treatment of a particular form ...
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Keeping well whilst getting older
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The prime objective of the Council on the Ageing (COTA) is to promote, improve and protect the circumstances and wellbeing of older people in Australia.COTA claims to be the voice of seniors over the age of 50; although in the 21st century most 50 year olds wouldn’t consider themselves old or even ageing. Regardless of our own age, we generally think of someone else as being old if they&rsqu...