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The following health and related news items are sourced from National, State and online news, current affairs and opinion sites. News is archived monthly into the News Archives.
National News
State/Territory News
International News
Other News
National News
Experts divided over role of bugs in obesity - 21 December, 2006
Intestinal bugs have just joined genes, diet and lifestyle as culprits in the worldwide obesity epidemic...More
Dye maps spread of cancer - 20 December, 2006
Researchers have developed a procedure that detects the spread of breast cancer without requiring painful surgery...More
Doctors flee remote areas - 20 December, 2006
Doctors are fleeing regional and remote areas and not being replaced, according to two new reports released yesterday...More
Commercial brakes - 17 December, 2006
More breaks for rural doctors - 16 December, 2006
Leading to fitness - 16 December, 2006
Howard urged to fight diabetes - 14 December, 2006
Cannabis link to mental illness - 13 December, 2006 (AAP)
Chronic health, mental illness link - 12 December, 2006
States won't cede hospitals - 12 December, 2006
Reality debunks myths about private health - 9 December, 2006
Diabetes and obesity - the new pandemic - 8 December, 2006
Diabetes doctor plans clone use - 8 December, 2006
MP's give all clear to cloning - 7 December, 2006
Abbott forced into a U-turn on hospitals - 7 December, 2006
Fund chief recommends co-ordinated care approach to health - 7 December, 2006
Physiotherapists financially stretched by health system - 2 December, 2006
Cell division - 2 December, 2006
Alexander Downer: We must unite against AIDS in the Asia-Pacific - 2 December, 2006
State/Territory News
NSW launches $21m health plan - 17 December, 2006
Swimming star Susie Maroney and champion road cyclist Robbie McEwan have backed a new $21 million state government program to get NSW people fitter and healthier...More
Surgery wait list cut, state claims - 17 December, 2006
A "TWO strikes and you're out" policy has cut the number of patients on NSW's "not ready for care" hospital waiting list by almost a third, the state government has said...More
Warnings on lead levels ignored - 12 December, 2006
Beattie backs health takeover - 11 December, 2006
Less than one in five adults smoke - 4 December, 2006
International
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Gates give $47 million to bolster coordinated assaults on diseases - 20 December, 2006 (US)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving $47 million in grants for the control of neglected tropical diseases, now almost forgotten in wealthy nations, that still cause excruciating pain, disfigurement and disability for millions of the world’s poorest people, the recipients announced yesterday...More
Health plan aims to cut costs - insure all - 14 December, 2006 (US)
Moderate alcohol may extend life - 13 December, 2006 (US)
Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism, 2006, 13 December, 2006 (US)
Testosterone problem in obese girls, men - 12 December, 2006 (US)
Medicare links doctor' pay to practices - 12 December, 2006 (US)
Not-For-Profit Hospitals Outperform Investor-Owned Facilities On Some Indicators, Study Finds - 12 December, 2006 (US)
WSJ Examines lack of NIH grants for high-risk research - 11 December, 2006 (US)
Industry seeks cheaper ways to develop drugs - 11 December, 2006 (US)
Experts puzzle over halt of bird flu - 10 December, 2006 (UK)
Employers told to help their staff get fit - 10 December, 2006 (UK)
Five U.S. Firms To Fund EHR Network for Employees as Way To Reduce Costs (US)
Fat off the Big Apple menu - 7 December, 2006 (US)
Mobile phone link to cancer ruled out - 7 December, 2006 (AAP)
Travel makes infectious disease a global issue - 5 December, 2006 (US)
Obesity 'to fuel rise in cancers' - 5 December, 2006 (UK)
Phone-based care program reduces risk of death in older adults - 4 December, 2006 (US)
Diabetes experts warn of 'staggering epidemic' - 4 December, 2006 (AFP)
Diet blog for Japanese ministers - 4 December, 2006 (AAP)
Cost of selling ban on smoking will burn a hole in health budgets - 3 December, 2006 (UK)
Extra weight, higher costs - 2 December, 2006 (US)
Medicaid Plan Prods Patients Toward Health - 1 December, 2006 (US)
Profit and Questions on Prostate Cancer Therapy - 1 December, 2006 (US)
Other News
Journal Article - A new discipline is born: comparative health-systems studies -
2 December, 2006
Lancet Vol 368, 3551 pp1949-50
Deaths in Austalia - 2005 (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
Publication - Reducing the burden of kidney disease - December 2006
Get set for 24/7 help - 2 December, 2006
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