The first Tuesday of May each year has been designated as World Asthma Day; simply to increase awareness of the prevention and treatment strategies of this all-too-common chronic condition.
This year, just about every health related issue has been overshadowed by the threat of swine flu.
Certainly the risk of contracting flu this winter, in fact...
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More than a century after his death the famous artist Vincent van Gogh is back in the news – not for his art but because of a new theory as to how he lost his ear.
There had been general agreement that van Gogh’s head wound was self-inflicted, subsequent to an argument with fellow artist...
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Whilst in Australia each year we are commemorating ANZAC Day, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is raising awareness of a disease that affects about 40% of the world’s population and kills more than one million people annually.
April 25 is World Malaria Day.
Malaria was once much more widespread, but it was successfully eliminated from many...
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At some time in our lives, almost every one of us will be confronted with a fungal infection. Fortunately, they only rarely occur on the face; but they do appear in most other parts of the body – from head to toe, especially the toe.
Tinea on the toes and elsewhere on the foot –...
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