Posts Tagged ‘ health information ’

With the change to daylight saving throughout much of Australia, most of us will have to adjust our sleep patterns, even if just a little. Of course, we have all encountered occasional sleep problems; but having sleeping problems on a regular basis can have significant adverse affect on our ability to lead a normal...
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Equine influenza has hit the headlines once again. A few weeks ago a horse recently arrived from overseas and resident at the Eastern Creek Quarantine Station in NSW had shown signs of the potentially deadly virus. Fortunately, this year, the infection was contained and spread prevented. Up until 2007 Australia had been completely free of this...
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Sport should be a relaxing pastime, but elite sport can be quite stressful. The recent Olympic and Paralympic Games have provided both the participants and the spectators with some pretty tense moments. Locally, the A League Soccer has just begun again, but for the other football codes, it’s finals time; and for every winner there’ll...
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The introduction to the Australian market of a new formulation of the so-called combined hormonal oral contraceptive pill has focussed attention on what is considered a fairly recent innovation in medicine. But the concept of contraception, and even of oral contraception, is not all that new. Taking precautions: the story of contraception was recently the subject...
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The theme for Hearing Awareness Week this year (August 24-30) is “one in six”. It’s a reminder that more than 3.5 million Australians have some form of hearing impairment. It’s a reminder also that the ears are much more than a couple of fairly useful appendages either side of our head. The ear is a...
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