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Screening For Prostate Cancer

We still don’t know the full answer, but at least over-75s don’t need ‘just a little prick’.

"Current evidence is insufficient to assess the

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Reduced Disability and Mortality Among Aging Runners

So, running really is good for you.

A 21 year longitudinal study concludes that running at middle and older ages is associated with reduced disabi

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Exercise and Weight Loss – Raising the Bar

Sustained weight loss appears to require more time spent exercising than previous consensus statements had suggested.

In a 24 month study of 200 o

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Health Behaviours and Mortality: The EPIC-Norfolk Prospective Population Study

Smoking and drinking are bad for you and being active and eating healthilly are good for you.

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Moderate Alcohol Intake and Diabetes Control

Good news! Patients who had previously abstained from alcohol appear to improve their glycaemic control with one glass of wine per day.

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You need a Chumby

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International Kuru Awareness Week

Although useful things (like dermatomes) can be impossible to remember, obscure things sometimes seem to stick fast in our memories. Like Kuru, which, as we all know, is caused by a slow acting virus transmitted by eating the brains of sufferers. Not terribly common here in NSW. Yet you may be surprised to know that […]

St Jude strikes back – A perfect mess

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Wasting Time Online – Linerider

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Social Networking – have you got the IT factor.

Fair, fat and forty-ish may be an accurate description of myself (ed note. We think Gadget Man is too hard on himself), but I don’t recommend it as a description for a ‘My Space’ page. So far, despite the fact the site has 106 million members, no one has offered to be my friend. Now, […]