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Colonial Carson to promote Adur as council's chairman

Peverel ward councillor Carson Albury took the chain of office at the Adur Civic Centre, taking over from outgoing chairman Fred Lewis. Mr Albury, originally from the Caribbean country, said it 'made my day' to have His Excellency Eldred Bethel in ... >> view original

Drug co-payment still on table: minister

Confusion surrounds the fate of a proposal to impose a co-payment for prescription drugs. Health Minister Sussan Ley backed away from the proposal to charge general patients a $5 co-payment and concession patients an 80 cent co-payment in May, ... >> view original

Indigenous smokers want to quit and anti-smoking campaigns do work, study ...

Mainstream anti-smoking campaigns are just as effective for Indigenous as non-Indigenous smokers, a new study suggests, countering "pessimism... that nothing has worked or is working". The study follows a $130 million cut over five years to the ... >> view original

IVF isn't a fix-all for those choosing to delay adulthood

All too frequently, I am faced with breaking bad news to disappointed couples in their early 40s who expected IVF to solve their fertility problems. The sad truth is that there's often little I can offer if the woman is much over 40, apart from egg donation from a ... >> view original

Stanley warns on climate risk to Aussie children

Australian children are the ones who will be most likely to suffer from increased cases of disease and infection as a result of climate change, former Australian of the Year and leading paediatrician Professor Fiona Stanley has warned. A new report by Doctors ... >> view original

Tasmanian devil declared the state's official animal emblem

He said choosing it as the state emblem would help raise awareness about devil facial tumour disease, a fatal condition characterised by the appearance of obvious facial cancers. The decision brings Tasmania in line with the rest of Australia in having an ... >> view original

Picking carbs over calories

If you've been passing on pasta in a bid to stay healthy and live longer, the study's finding could be good news. For a long life, we know that kilojoule restriction is the single most effective dietary change you can make. Now, a "game-changing" new study has ... >> view original

Aussies spend nearly 100 million hours a month hungover

New research has shed light on Australia's love affair with the bottle, revealing 100 million hours are wasted each month on being hungover. Cancer fundraiser Dry July commissioned a survey of 1030 alcohol drinkers across Australia in February to get a ... >> view original

WA mental health crisis nurses to aid cops

NURSES given limited police powers as part of proposed mental health teams would only be called out for crisis intervention, the West Australian police commissioner says. THE state government is proposing the nurses be given special powers, like being ... >> view original

Businesses offer clean slate after tattoo second thoughts

A quick look around any urban centre — or pop-culture anything — and you will see that body art has become a fixture of self-expression for many people. A recent Pew Study found that 39% of all millennials have at least one tattoo — and many have multiple ... >> view original