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Government pulls funding from gay health group - Courier Mail |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 15:15 |
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CONTROVERSIAL: Healthy Communities is best remembered for the 'Rip n Roll' safe sex advertising campaign. Source: The Australian QUEENSLAND'S only health organisation dedicated to the gay and lesbian community has had its funding withdrawn by the new ....
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Chicago protests on eve of NATO summit raucous, peaceful |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 15:15 |
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 CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hundreds of demonstrators staged raucous protests against Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's budget cuts and other economic issues on the eve of the NATO summit, but police said there were few arrests and only minor clashes. The crowds were in the hundreds on Saturday, down from an estimated 2,500 people on Friday at Daley Plaza, named for longtime Mayor Richard J. Daley, who headed the city during bloody clashes between police and anti-Vietnam War protesters at the 1968 Democratic convention. ...
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'Label jars, not people': Lobbying against the shrinks - New Scientist |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 13:15 |
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'LABEL jars, not people' and 'stop medicalising the normal symptoms of life' read placards, as hundreds of protesters - including former patients, academics and doctors - gathered to lobby the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) annual meeting....
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Western Australia introduces court for mentally ill - ABC Online |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 13:15 |
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The West Australian Government plans to introduce a specialist court to deal with offenders suffering from mental illness. WA Mental Health Minister Helen Morton says the state government will draw on the experience of other jurisdictions for its ....
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Government pulls funding from gay health group - Herald Sun |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 13:15 |
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QUEENSLAND'S only health organisation dedicated to the gay and lesbian community has had its funding withdrawn by the new state Government. Healthy Communities is best remembered for last year's controversial 'Rip n Roll' safe sex advertising campaign.... Read more...
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Most GPs can't recognise signs of Alzheimer's |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 12:11 |
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Dementia will kill one in three people over 65, but a survey of GPs reveals that almost two-thirds admit they are not properly taught to recognise the signs of ... Read more...
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Latest anti - NATO protest in Chicago small, peaceful |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 12:11 |
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - About 500 demonstrators gathered outside the home of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Saturday to protest the recent closure of mental health clinics as part of a series of rallies ... Read more...
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Long shifts 'put doctors at risk' |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 12:11 |
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Tired junior doctors are putting their lives in danger by driving home after long, 'inhumane' shifts, delegates at a British Medical Association conference said ... Read more...
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Courts under fire in mental health row - WA today |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 11:15 |
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MENTAL illnesses are being exploited by some defence lawyers to reduce sentences for people found guilty of serious offences, despite a lack of evidence linking the ailments to criminal behaviour, mental health experts say. Groups including the Mental ....
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Lawyers 'told doctors to exaggerate crash injuries' |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 10:11 |
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Lawyers representing accident victims routinely asked doctors to exaggerate the extent of their injuries to help them win compensation, a tribunal has ... Read more...
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Georgia woman with flesh - eating disease in 'critical' condition |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 07:15 |
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(Reuters) - A Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating bacterial infection was in critical condition at Augusta Hospital on Saturday, a hospital spokeswoman said. The spokeswoman said she could not comment on whether Aimee Copeland had undergone surgery to remove her hands and right foot, amputations that Copeland's father had said were pending on Friday. Surgeons had amputated the 24-year-old's left leg at the hip. "All I can say is Aimee is still in critical condition," hospital spokeswoman Barclay Bishop said. ... Read more...
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California Raw Milk Producer Cleared to Continue Production |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 05:15 |
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Fresno, Calif.-based Organic Pastures passed the most recent health inspections brought on by a finding of "harmful bacteria in samples of butter, cream and cow manure," the Los Angeles Times reports. Read more...
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CDC Recommends Baby Boomers Get Tested for Hepatitis C |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 05:15 |
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention proposed new recommendations regarding testing for hepatitis C. The recommendations were released in advance of the CDC's first "Hepatitis Testing Day" today. Read more...
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USDA lifts quarantines on two farms in mad cow probe |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 04:11 |
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A cow tested positive last month for mad cow disease Two farms were placed under quarantine as investigators examined feed The feed didn't cause the cow to develop the disease, officials ... Read more...
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Medical success - or boondoggle |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 04:11 |
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Cash Burnaman, 6, had experimental embryonic stem cell therapy Doctors overwhelmingly say there's no possibility it will have an effect on his condition Dr. Geeta Shroff offers the ... Read more...
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Some bagged salads deemed health risk |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 04:11 |
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Certain products made by River Ranch Fresh Foods are under scrutiny 'Routine sampling' detected Listeria contamination, the California Health Department says The company's ... Read more...
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Government dumps hospital IT system - ABC Online |
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 03:15 |
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By Peta Carlyon The State Government has dumped the hospital IT system HealthSMART after a $500 million cost blowout. The Government dumped the system saying it was not viable to restore it in the same way the Government has stuck by myki....
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