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Peter Mellow
July 5, 2020 5:33 AM
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A hospital that keeps wastebaskets empty can get high marks from a patient who can’t see a virus that may be lurking.
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Peter Mellow
June 26, 10:47 PM
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A fear of death plagues many of us, and gets in the way of us speaking about it and preparing for it, despite its inevitability. Here's how we could turn that around.
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Peter Mellow
June 25, 6:49 PM
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Effective treatments and products can help manage this stressful condition.
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Peter Mellow
June 25, 6:48 PM
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Families and experts share their best advice for navigating and coping.
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Peter Mellow
June 25, 6:40 PM
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Your chance of dying from a heart attack has dropped dramatically, but other deadly heart conditions are on the rise, a new study found.
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Peter Mellow
June 24, 9:52 PM
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Being in an Aboriginal midwifery program meant we had a culturally safe experience from both a First Nations and an LGBTIQA+ perspective
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Peter Mellow
June 24, 6:25 PM
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A family member who found their loved one hungry and laying in their urine was one of 27 recent complaints substantiated by investigators.
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Peter Mellow
June 23, 6:49 PM
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We're told an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but does this humble fruit really have an outsized positive effect on our health?
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Peter Mellow
June 23, 1:31 AM
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I am not a doctor. This is one of many reasons why. This is the story of a number, the angst it caused and the idiot who didn’t know what it meant.
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Peter Mellow
June 22, 6:10 PM
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Being diagnosed with a serious illness can be heartbreaking, but it can lead to positive changes.
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Peter Mellow
June 22, 6:09 PM
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Some of our body parts have descriptive names. Others are named after some very controversial men.
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Peter Mellow
June 20, 7:24 PM
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A woman diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer after 363 days is among dozens of cases which have led doctors at one of Sydney’s biggest hospitals to sound the alarm.
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Peter Mellow
June 19, 7:39 PM
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Knee braces, hydrotherapy and exercise are some of the most effective ways to address arthritis-related knee pain and stiffness, a new study shows.
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Peter Mellow
June 26, 10:49 PM
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The “wind phone” was installed by Colin Campbell and Gail Lerner, whose children, Ruby and Hart Campbell, were killed by a drunk driver in 2019.
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Peter Mellow
June 26, 6:59 PM
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Chronic exposure to inflammation may explain link to conditions including depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder, researchers say
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Peter Mellow
June 25, 6:49 PM
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Providing an alternative treatment can indeed be useful to patients, Dr. Boness said, but she questioned whether it was ethical to do so in the absence of rigorous scientific evidence.
Her “biggest fear,” she added, was that vulnerable people would turn to tapping, and then find that it doesn’t work.
“It’s not actually a psychological treatment,” she said.
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Peter Mellow
June 25, 6:45 PM
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The Productivity Commission has found governments’ agreements to improve mental health care and reduce suicides are ‘not fit for purpose’.
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Peter Mellow
June 25, 12:12 AM
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My Health Learning is the NSW Health eLearning system providing high quality, self-managed online learning for NSW Health staff.
My Health Learning provides access to mandatory training and professional development through a comprehensive range of online and face-to-face education opportunities
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Peter Mellow
June 24, 6:49 PM
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E.R. doctors want you to know that they are people, too. At an event called Airway, one confessed, “I do not like these big, high stakes, bloody, messy, risky procedures.”
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Peter Mellow
June 23, 11:05 PM
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The expensive medication does little to prevent hospitalisation or death for people who are vaccinated against the virus, a new Australian analysis of randomised controlled trials has found.
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Peter Mellow
June 23, 6:48 PM
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Wheelchair users tell the BBC they are having to turn to garages and even pet shops to find accessible scales.
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Peter Mellow
June 22, 7:51 PM
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My husband was just out of rehab for his self-destructive tendencies, and here I was, self-destructing in my own quieter, more Pinterest-worthy way.
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Peter Mellow
June 22, 6:10 PM
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An increasing number of people are calling triple zero for ambulances to take them to emergency departments for back problems. It’s not always the right answer.
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Peter Mellow
June 22, 6:08 PM
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Tom Zdanius suffered a stroke in Japan last month and has been lying in bed, racking up medical bills of about $5,000 a day ever since.
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Peter Mellow
June 20, 7:14 PM
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Doctors warn patients with life-threatening cardiac conditions will wait longer for treatment because of cost-cutting at the state’s new $600 million specialist hospital.
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Peter Mellow
June 19, 7:36 PM
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A study that claims the popular OsteoStrong program can help strengthen bones in post-menopausal women is "misleading", and "should never have been published", say bone health researchers.
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