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08 Feb 2019
How to Conquer Insomnia: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
We’ve all been there. A long sleepless night with endless position changes and yet no sign of sleep. A survey from the Sleep Health Foundation in 2016 pointed out that 26% of the Aussie population suffers from some level of insomnia. Experts are now pointing out the “24/7…
Healthcare
13 Dec 2018
Medical Associations in Australia
Last updated: 6 December 2017
Neurology
13 Dec 2018
Neurosurgery
A neurosurgeon is a surgeon who specialises in operative management of patients with conditions that affect the brain, spinal cord and associated nerves.
Healthcare
13 Dec 2018
Qualitative and quantitative research in integrative medicine
“Your health is determined not only by your genes, after all, but also by your environment” (Tsou, cited in Mitchell, 2009, p. 34) as the…
Children's Health
05 Dec 2018
Being large for gestational age at birth combined with maternal diabetes is associated with a near-trebling of child’s risk of obesity | Canada
New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes [EASD]) shows that children who are larger than average at birth (large for gestational age or LGA) and born to mothers with gestational diabetes are almost three times as likely to be obese as…
Cancer
04 Nov 2018
New resource helps families assess childhood cancer clinical trials
UNSW medical researchers are developing a tool to support families who are deciding whether to enrol in a childhood cancer clinical trial.
Children's Health
19 Oct 2018
Cord blood clue to respiratory diseases
New research has found children born in the last three months of the year in Melbourne may have a greater risk of developing respiratory diseases.
Cancer
11 Oct 2018
Birth defect predicts testicular cancer, infertility
First population-based cohort study to assess both adult fertility and cancer risk after surgical correction for undescended testes in early childhood.
Children's health
04 Sep 2018
Spider venom strikes a blow against childhood epilepsy
A devastating form of childhood epilepsy that is resistant to traditional drugs may have met its match in spider venom.
