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07/18/2010 07:00 AM
Obesity 'bigger health risk than smoking'
EXCESS weight has overtaken smoking as top cause of death and disability, health chief says.
06/15/2010 11:49 PM
Buying fake Viagra online 'risky'
AUSSIE men who bypass doctors and buy drugs online for erectile dysfunction risk poisoning themselves, a leading urologist has warned.
06/02/2010 11:00 PM
Burgers raise asthma risk - study
HEALTH experts have welcomed the results of a study which proves kids who eat three burgers a week have increased rates of asthma and "wheeze".
05/17/2010 09:59 PM
Half-hour mobile limit 'unnecessary'
A LEADING scientist has dismissed reports that mobile phone use should be limited to less than 30 minutes a day.
03/14/2010 12:41 PM
Psychopaths wired to seek reward
THE brains of psychopaths could be hardwired to seek reward even when the consequences are life-threatening to others or themselves.
02/22/2010 01:38 PM
Hospital infections kill 48,000 each year
NEARLY 50,000 patients die every year of blood poisoning or pneumonia they picked up in US hospitals.
02/09/2010 09:15 PM
Vaccine woes as whooping cough mutates
THE bacteria that causes whooping cough has mutated, scientists have warned, eroding the protection provided by the vaccine now given to children.
12/15/2009 06:47 PM
Twilight behind most popular baby name
Even new parents have caught
Twilight
fever, with Isabella now top of the list of favourite baby names.
11/10/2009 07:31 PM
Highest birth rate in 38 years
WE'RE in the middle of a national baby boom, with more children born in Australia in 2008 than ever before.
11/07/2009 09:15 PM
Pets are the new children
VETERINARY nurse Allison Andrewartha admits her pets are spoilt rotten.
