Viewing Articles Posted in May 2013
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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 ...