2015년 3월 8일 일요일

Targeted painkiller myth | Questioning medical treatments | Sleep tracking apps

ABC Health & Wellbeing Updates
5 March 2015 Welcome to this week's ABC Health & Wellbeing Updates where you'll find the most interesting and inspiring health stories from across the ABC.
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Painkillers able to target pain? No way
Painkillers able to target pain? No way
Claims that suggest you need a different painkiller for back pain, migraine, period pain or tension headache are simply untrue, health and consumer experts say.
Mental illness hits small business owners hard
Mental illness hits small business owners hard
While there's a growing focus on mental health in the workplace, there are fewer resources and support available to those running small business owners.
Is your sleep tracking app keeping you awake at night?
Is your sleep tracking app keeping you awake at night?
Sleep tracking apps and devices may be fuelling insomnia in some people, experts say. Those who don't understand that normal sleep involve lots of brief awakenings may be especially at risk.
Five medical tests or treatments worth questioning
Five medical tests or treatments worth questioning
Do you ever wonder if some medical tests and treatments are really needed? It turns out plenty of them aren't. Here are five instances where experts believe your knowledge and awareness can help reduce unnecessary interventions.
Healthy Living
Healthy Eating
8 common exercise beliefs that can hold you back
8 common exercise beliefs that can hold you back
Not sweating? You're wasting your time. Feeling pain? Just push through it! Not everything you hear about exercise is correct or helpful. We separate the fact from the fiction.
Fruit and oat breakfast scrolls
Fruit and oat breakfast scrolls
These fruit and oat scrolls take a little time to make, but they freeze well. When thawed or reheated they make a great quick breakfast, morning tea or lunch box filler.
Heart attack warning signs aren't always sudden or severe and some people don't experience chest pain at all.
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News
Calls to increase drug education in schools (ABC News Online - 05/03/2015 )
ACCC launches action over 'misleading' Nurofen products (ABC News Online - 05/03/2015)
Locals make a big splash for mental health (ABC Local Online - 05/03/2015)
Modest coffee consumption good for the heart: study (ABC News Online - 04/03/2015)
Bill Shorten calls for a national summit to combat domestic violence (AM - 04/03/2015)
Adults catch the flu about twice every decade (Science Online - 04/03/2015)
Does emotional health play a part in your risk of having a heart attack? (ABC News Online - 03/03/2015)
Gorillas source of two HIV-1 lineages (Science Online - 03/03/2015)
GP co-payment is dead so what next for health funding cuts? (ABC News Online - 02/03/2015)
New Royal Flying Doctor Service jet to halve flying time (ABC Local Online - 02/03/2015)
WHO sounds warning over music hearing damage (ABC News Online - 02/03/2015)
Landmark study highlights divide in access to mental health services (ABC News Online - 02/03/2015)
Health bodies criticise Government decision not to label trans fats (AM - 27/02/2015)
Wild mushroom warning follows spike in emergency room cases (The World Today - 27/02/2015)
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Online analysis and opinion
We still have a GP co-payment by stealth
The Drum
The $5 GP co-payment may be "dead, buried and cremated" but the Medicare rebate freeze remains, and will ultimately have a much bigger impact on patients than the other move would have, writes Stephen Duckett.
The Drift
ABC Open
Sometimes friendships come along at a specific time and place in our lives. What happens when all that changes?
More to food labelling than country-of-origin
The Drum
Merely adding clearer "country-of-origin" labels onto food products is insufficient. This debate should be about ethics and sustainability, not just food safety, writes Bill Bellotti.
more analysis and opinion>>
Audio and video
Glioblastoma risks audio item (Health Report, ABC RN)
Genetic research into pancreatic cancer audio item (Health Report, ABC RN)
Choosing wisely audio item (Health Report, ABC RN)
Breathing through pain audio item (Body Sphere, ABC RN)
Blueprint Reviews: That Sugar Film audio item (Blueprint for Living, ABC RN)
Tamiflu video item (Catalyst)
Ebola Frontline video item (iview)
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ABC Science
Got a PhD in science? Now what?
Leaving academia does not mean you have 'failed', says Tim Nielsen. He offers some career advice to young scientists.

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