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01/27/2012
Bird flu discovered at Victorian duck farm - NEWS.com.au
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NEWS.com.au
The virus detected at a duck farm in Melbourne's northwest is thought to be a harmless strain of bird flu. Picture: AFP Source: AFP AT least 10000 ducks will have to be destroyed to contain an outbreak of bird flu at two Victorian farms.
Bird flu detected in Victoria
Despite Vic Bird Flu, Chicken Still Safe to Eat
Bird flu detected in ducks near Melbourne
01/27/2012
Testosterone 'delays boys' speech development' - Sydney Morning Herald
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Sydney Morning Herald
Boys who are exposed to high testosterone levels before birth are twice as likely to experience delays in language development, according to new research. The study from Perth's Telethon Institute for Child Health Research used umbilical cord blood to ...
Prenatal Testosterone Levels a Risk Factor for Language Delay
Testosterone May Delay Boys' Speech Development
Hormone Effect May Be Why Boys Talk Later than Girls
01/27/2012
Social skills suffer when tweens multitask - Futurity: Research News
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Futurity: Research News
"When we media multitask, we're not really paying attention to the people around us and we get in a habit of not paying attention, and thus when I'm talking with you, I may be hearing the words but I'm missing all the rich, critical, juicy stuff at the ...
Spending Too Much Time over Digital Gadgets Can make one Less emotional
Multitasking may harm the social and emotional development of tweenage girls ...
Young Girls Can Multimedia Multitask, but Conditions Apply
01/28/2012
Drinking tea cuts blood pressure - Deccan Herald
Deccan Herald
Deccan Herald
Drinking up to eight cups of tea a day lowers blood pressure and could prevent heart disease, Australian scientists have found. Researchers at the University of Western Australia gave black leaf tea, such as Earl Grey or English Breakfast to volunteers ...
Tea 'may cut heart disease rates'
Drinking eight teas a day 'cuts blood pressure and heart disease'
What's the key to beating heart disease? Loads and loads of tea
01/28/2012
Drugs sold to dead $2m pharmacy swindle - NEWS.com.au
NEWS.com.au
Some pharmacies have been claiming rebates on medicines issued multiple times or even to patients who are dead. Picture: James Elsby Source: The Advertiser PHARMACISTS have been caught pocketing rebates for dispensing drugs to dead patients in a ...
Drugs sold to dead in pharmacy swindle involving claims under Pharmaceutical ...
01/26/2012
Gardaà pursue Avondale directors - Irish Times
Irish Times
GARDAÃ HAVE been in contact with law-enforcement agencies in Australia as part of an investigation into the owner of a Kilkenny nursing home who is accused of breaching care standards and stealing money from clients. It emerged yesterday that Miriam ...
Gardai look into how probe duo got nursing home jobs in Australia
'Fleecers' flee aged care home
Avondale owner managing Australian nursing home
01/27/2012
French medical watchdog slammed as breast implant boss charged - The Australian
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The Australian
THE reputation of France's health system and its scandal-ridden medical watchdog, Afssaps, is in the firing line after the laying of charges against the former boss of Poly Implant Prothese, Jean-Claude Mas. France's medical regulators have come under ...
French implant boss released, faces bodily harm charge
PIP founder charged over faulty breast implants
PIP breast implant boss Jean-Claude Mas charged
01/26/2012
More than 170000 take Friday 'sickie' - Sky News Australia
Sky News Australia
More than 170000 take Friday 'sickie' Updated: 13:12, Friday January 27, 2012 If you took a 'sickie' from work today - you weren't the only one. New research shows that more than 170, 000 Australians were expected to stay home today, giving themselves ...
01/27/2012
Are gluten-free diets a passing fad? - Stuff.co.nz
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Stuff.co.nz
FORBIDDEN: Many people claim to feel better after cutting out gluten from their diets - but are they really gluten intolerant? Novak Djokovic called him ''the great doctor'' - a Sarajevo-trained GP with expertise in Chinese medicine and acupuncture, ...
Diets based on a grain of truth
Beware of Gluten allergy
Need To Make People Aware Of Coeliac Disease