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4:13 PM AEDT | The saying "put the shoe on the other foot" could almost apply to the Footcare Shoe Centre in Launceston, except in their case it is about ensuring that the right shoe is on the right foot.
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4:12 PM AEDT | With the pressure on women today to keep their appearance youthful it can be confusing and expensive.
The more extreme procedures available today, to help keep our ever lasting youthfulness ar
2:48 PM AEDT | CANBERRA - Midwives will be able to provide Medicare- funded care for the first time under a dramatic but controversial reform passed by Parliament.
Coalition senators, previously opposed to chang
16 Mar 10 | CANBERRA - Doctors believe Australians should not shy away from CT scans, after concerns were raised about the imaging tests being overused.
The health profession watchdog yesterday warned that do
16 Mar 10 | CANBERRA - The Federal Government plans to spend $632 million to address severe doctor shortages across Australia by boosting general practitioner and specialist training.
In a direct attack on Op
16 Mar 10 | SYDNEY - The PSA test remains the best available "red flag" for prostate cancer, Australian urologists say, in response to strong criticism from the doctor who created it.
Richard Ablin developed
16 Mar 10 | MELBOURNE - Victorians will help cover the cost of anti- rejection drugs for Australia's first potential double hand transplant recipient.
Former plumber Peter Walsh, of Cobden in the state&#
15 Mar 10 | THREE years ago Craig Newman had a nervous breakdown - he had a back injury that left him with no feeling in his right arm, high blood pressure and cholesterol and, at his heaviest, weighed in at more
15 Mar 10 | SYDNEY - The burden of deciding when a person's health makes them unfit to drive should rest with transport authorities and not their doctor, the head of a hospital epilepsy clinic says.
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13 Mar 10 | TASMANIAN Public Health Director Roscoe Taylor has hit back at a call for his resignation, posted on an online news blog yesterday.
Andrew Lohrey, the former Environment Minister in the Lowe gover
12 Mar 10 | Flight attendants and half a dozen passengers became sick on a Jetstar flight in Queensland when a chemical smell wafted through the plane.
Jetstar spokesman Simon Westaway said some cabin crew and
11 Mar 10 | MOTHER of eight, Anne Coull, 63, seems like a fit and healthy woman.
But she has what she calls a "hidden disease" termed scleroderma, which is a chronic condition where the immune system atta
10 Mar 10 | SYDNEY - Australians are increasingly popping over-the- counter pain killers to treat their ailments, many unaware they could cause more health problems.
Research shows more than 70 per cent of Au
10 Mar 10 | SYDNEY - Childhood allergy rates have hit "epidemic proportions" in Australia, prompting health experts to broaden their efforts to combat the mysterious condition.
Canberra-based allergy expert D
09 Mar 10 | The debate continues over how much sleep is the right amount. KIM PAINTER reports from Chicago. A GOOD night's sleep is important at any age.
But what constitutes a good night's slee
09 Mar 10 | By GRAEME LYNCH THE state election campaign gives the impression that health care and very deep pockets go hand in hand - they do.
It is also true that it's time to rethink the distribution
09 Mar 10 | PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd would not rule out the loss of a large number of Tasmanian health bureaucracy jobs yesterday as part of his proposed hospital reforms.
09 Mar 10 | The Federal Government's proposed hospital reforms will create an inefficient system with too many levels of administration, West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says.
Mr Barnett said yesterda
09 Mar 10 | PREMIER David Bartlett offered Tasmania up as the first state to support controversial federal health reforms yesterday by promising more than $176 million in new health projects.
09 Mar 10 | AT 9 months old Emma Crack became the youngest Tasmanian to be diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
At 6, she became one of the 3 per cent of sufferers to have a sibling diagnosed with the same con
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