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We Should Focus on What Health Care Reform Will Look Like,More Than When It Will Happen.
Health & Wellness (tags: Sweden, Denmark, Holland, France, UK, Australia, Cuba, Venuzuela, Britain, Spain, Norway, Finland, Germany )

Panda Eat
- 103 days ago - alternet.org

Well look across the world,at examples of working healthcare systems...

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Tumour Claims Cancer Specialist Professor Chris O'Brien - Australia
Health & Wellness (tags: australia, chris o'brien, cancer, barin cancer, lifehouse, sydney, research, surgeon, kevin rudd, state funeral, sadness, rpa )

Chrissy
- 155 days ago - abc.net.au

Renowned cancer specialist Professor Chris O'Brien has died of a brain tumour in Sydney, just days before he was due to be made an officer in the Order of Australia in next Monday's Queen's Birthday honours list. Professor O'Brien was diagnosed with a

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Schizophrenia Drugs May Halt Cancer - Australia
Health & Wellness (tags: australia, research, cancer, cells, schizophrenia, breast cancer, anti-psychotic, university )

Chrissy
- 156 days ago - abc.net.au

An Australian researcher says a drug used to treat schizophrenia could help treat cancer. Sarah Ongeley from the University of New South Wales made the claims, based on preliminary research on an anti-psychotic drug, at this week's Australian Society for

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Swine Flu Tally Nears 900 - Australia
Health & Wellness (tags: australia, h1n1, swine flu, flu, cases, health, quarintine )

Chrissy
- 156 days ago - abc.net.au

Health Minister Nicola Roxon has confirmed there are now 878 confirmed cases of swine flu in Australia, as Singapore advises its residents not to travel to the worst-hit state, Victoria. Victoria has the most confirmed cases at 752. New South Wales is

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Swine Flu: Confirmed Cases Hit 44 - Australia
Health & Wellness (tags: australia, swine flu, H1N1, flu, queensland, victoria, children, adults, health, nsw, sa )

Chrissy
- 164 days ago - abc.net.au

The number of swine flu cases in Australia has risen to 44, with eight more Victorians confirmed as having the virus and Queensland recording a further five positives. The latest confirmed cases are a 32-year-old man and seven children aged between six

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Lifehouse at RPA - Australia
Health & Wellness (tags: australia, nsw, new south wales, sydnet, lifehouse, rpa, royal prince alfred, hospital, cancer, holistic, traditional, complimentary, Sydney Cancer Centre, Professor Chris O'Brien, research, education )

Chrissy
- 165 days ago - lifehouserpa.org.au

It is with a great sense of excitement that I am able to tell you that the New Sydney Cancer Centre was officially launched in April 2009. Lifehouse at RPA is the vision of Professor Chris O'Brien who launched the project in 2006, shortly before he was

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Radium Weed Sap 'Can Remove Sun Spots' - Australia
Health & Wellness (tags: australia, sun cancer, sun spots, radium weed, sap, weed, peplin, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, queensland, pharma, health, healthcare )

Chrissy
- 173 days ago - theaustralian.news.com.au

A QUEENSLAND pharmaceutical company is claiming the sap of a common weed can remove sun spots and prevent potentially deadly skin cancers. Peplin has developed a gel from the radium weed sap, a common folk remedy for cancer. It says the gel can remove sun

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Sleep Apnoea Similar to Stroke: Scientists - Australia
Health & Wellness (tags: australia, world, sleep apnoea, apnoea, stroke, scientists, research, health )

Chrissy
- 173 days ago - abc.net.au

New research shows that people with sleep apnoea experience changes in brain biochemistry similar to people who have had a severe stroke or who are dying. Sleep apnoea affects as many as one in four middle-aged men and 3 per cent go on to experience a

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Swine Flu May Be a Lab Error: Australian Researcher Adrian Gibbs Said - World
Health & Wellness (tags: australia, world, scientist, researcher, who, world health organisation, swine flu, flu, lab, H1N1, virus )

Chrissy
- 178 days ago - business.theage.com.au

The World Health Organisation is investigating a claim by an Australian researcher that the swine flu virus circling the globe may have been created as a result of human error. Adrian Gibbs, 75, who collaborated on research that led to the development of

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Tai Chi Class Clashes With Bible: Baptists - Australia
Health & Wellness (tags: australia, tasmania, tai chi, baptist, church, bible, religion, arthritis, well being, excercise )

Chrissy
- 184 days ago - abc.net.au

Arthritis Tasmania has condemned the actions of a church in north-west Tasmania which has cancelled a senior citizens' Tai Chi class. The Wynyard Baptist Church says the martial arts-based exercises go against the Bible. Elderly people who have been

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Biggest Loser Winner Bob Herdsman Is Half the Man He Used to Be - Australia
Health & Wellness (tags: australia, biggest loser, bob herdsman, weight, weight loss, winner, great news )

Chrissy
- 192 days ago - news.com.au

THE oldest-ever contestant on Australia's version of The Biggest Loser, Bob Herdsman, has shed a record breaking 87.6kg to win the latest series and $200,000 in prize money. Entering the reality series weighing 167.8kg, the 57-year-old shed more than half

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The Silence Epidemic: NT Kids Can't Hear, Can't Learn - Australia
Health & Wellness (tags: australia, nt, northern territory, aborigines, children, health, deafness, hearing, teaching, schools )

Chrissy
- 194 days ago - abc.net.au

It is a constant challenge to get Indigenous children from remote communities to school. But then, when they do turn up, they often can't hear what the teacher is saying. So many Aboriginal students in remote areas of the Northern Territory are partially

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Australia Braces for Possible 'Global Flu Epidemic'
Health & Wellness (tags: health, flu, epidemic, global health, Australia, Mexico, US, world, diseases )

Past
- 194 days ago - abc.net.au

Health officials in Australia say they are on standby to implement procedures at the nation's borders if needed, to help guard against any outbreak of a new strain of swine flu.

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Q&A: What Is Swine Flu? - World
Health & Wellness (tags: swine flu, world, australia, questions, answers, information, mexico, usa, health, warnings )

Chrissy
- 195 days ago - abc.net.au

Health authorities across the globe are taking steps to try to stem the spread of swine flu after outbreaks in Mexico and the United States, and suspected cases elsewhere. RN Breakfast's science correspondent Dr Chris Smith and the World Health O

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Melbourne Woman Has Spent 60 Years in Iron Lung - Australia
Health & Wellness (tags: australia, victoria, melbourne, polio, iron lung, dog, aid dog, angel, woman, friends )

Chrissy
- 214 days ago - news.com.au

BEING locked in an iron lung since 1949 has not stopped June Middleton from making friends. They packed Yooralla's Ventilator Accommodation Support Service in Thornbury Sunday to help her mark a remarkable 60 years spent in the machine that enables her to

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