Kava plant may treat anxiety
Source: Fox News
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-20 10:33:44 -0700 | health-news
Published May 20, 2013 LiveScience An extract from the kava plant can treat people with chronic anxiety, an study from Australia finds. Patients with generalized anxiety disorder who took kava extract tablets for six weeks showed a significant reduction in...
Day care ban for unvaccinated children 'heavy handed', says expert
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-05-20 12:23:29 -0700 | health-news
We should get better at implementing existing policy before going down this draconian path," Associate Professor Leask said. "Parents of children who are not up-to-date with vaccines are often not refusing deliberately they've just forgotten. Simply asking those parents at...
Protein that can stop diabetes in its tracks identified
Source: The Hindu
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-20 08:35:07 -0700 | health-news
Scientists have identified an immune protein that has the potential to stop or reverse the development of Type-1 diabetes in its early stages, before insulin-producing cells have been destroyed. The discovery has wider repercussions, as the protein is responsible for...
Grow your own body parts
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-05-20 08:21:39 -0700 | health-news
Also known as Mexican walking fish, salamanders can regenerate their own limbs, tails, jaws, retina and heart. But the researchers found that if certain immune cells were blocked, the amphibians were unable to regrow limbs, though healing did occur. "It...
Garlic pills can help cut cholesterol
Source: Adelaide Now
Adelaide :: Australia | updated 2013-05-20 06:35:38 -0700 | health-news
Lead author Dr Karin Ried said the study, which analysed results from 39 separate trials involving 2300 people, was "the most comprehensive analysis" of the effect of garlic on cholesterol to date. It found participants who had slightly elevated cholesterol...
Australia looks at different ways of fighting obesity (Newstalk ZB)
Source: Xtra News
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-19 15:02:50 -0700 | health-news
Australia looks at different ways of fighting obesity Newstalk ZB staff, Newstalk ZB May 20, 2013, 9:08 am A Government-backed study in Australia is looking at whether a fat tax on fast foods will help reduce the rising number of...
Move of the Week: Parallel Squat Kick
Source: Epoch Times
Brisbane :: Australia | updated 2013-05-19 07:16:14 -0700 | health-news
You may also like Resistance training has so many incredible benefits. Unless you have poor technique and do exercises incorrectly, there are really no negative aspects of resistance training...Any exercise that uses your muscle against resistance of some kind is...
VIDEO: Can jellyfish venom help humans?
Source: BBC
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-18 17:52:33 -0700 | health-news
00 ET Simon Reeve travels to Weipa in Queensland where he meets a scientist who studies some of the most lethal creatures on the planet. As part of the Stinger Research Unit, Dr Jamie Seymour chases box jellyfish which move...
NZ diabetes patients could join lawsuit (NZ Newswire)
Source: Xtra News
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-18 17:09:38 -0700 | health-news
NZ diabetes patients could join lawsuit NZ Newswire May 19, 2013, 11:54 am New Zealanders concerned about possible links between their diabetes medication and cancer have contacted an Australian law firm about a class action in the US...A 10-year study...
Screening is important says Dr Joshi
Source: Fiji Times
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-18 14:04:50 -0700 | health-news
Dr Ranjan Joshi a member of the Operation Open Heart team visiting from Australia said it was important that parents learn the early signs of heart problems after children were born. "The signs usually range from tiredness to skin colour...
GH looks at new option for central BP measurement
Source: The Hindu
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-17 21:53:40 -0700 | health-news
Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (GH) will soon undertake a study to test the effectiveness of a new apparatus SphygmoCor used for measuring central artery pressure in a non-invasive method. Conventionally, regular blood pressure is measured using the arm cuff...
Depression increases stroke risk in mid-aged women
Posted by: Debbie Nicholson
Queenstown :: Australia | updated 2013-05-17 09:16:35 -0700 | health-news
Even after adjusting for certain factors such as age and heart disease the increase remained Worldwide, stroke is the second leading cause of death, responsible for 4.4 million (nine percent) of the total 50.5 million deaths each year. Stroke is...
Life for 700 and counting
Source: Fiji Times
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-16 14:15:44 -0700 | health-news
The team provides free life-transforming cardiac surgery to underprivileged men, women and children throughout Australasia, South East Asia, and various third world countries. "Nothing's new on this trip. We are doing the same surgeries but the only different thing is...
Laws would see doctor disciplinary records online
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-16 06:46:24 -0700 | health-news
The Queensland Government wants new laws introduced that allow a doctor's disciplinary record placed online for patients to see. The laws, which should be in place by September, come after damning reports filed in the state's Parliament last month exposed...
Breakthrough research poses ethical concerns
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-16 18:36:00 -0700 | health-news
Skin cell DNA can be inserted into a human egg to develop an early-stage embryo. A breakthrough in embryonic stem cell research that could lead to people receiving transplants based on their own tissues has been both hailed by scientists,...
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