Suffering the pain of eating illnesses

Its Bega branch, which has been running for the last 25 years, is holding a public information afternoon for anyone who may have problems with either overeating or restricting their food intake. Long-time member and public relations officer Belinda, who did not use her last name as the organisation is anonymous, said the branch uses a 12-step model the same as in Alcoholics Anonymous and was for people who suffer from bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa or binge eating.

Concern over key health rebate

… when GP clinics are open. “If home visits weren’t available, more families would go to emergency departments for health problems that are not emergencies but cannot wait for treatment until business hours. “For regional communities like many in the …

Federal gov leads push to kick habit

Alarming rate: The Grampians region has one of the highest smoking rates in the country, with 28 per cent of adults smoking daily in 2013. Ballarat Community Health has welcomed the federal government’s renewed push to cut the national smoking rate, saying a greater focus needs to be put on assisting lower socioeconomic groups to kick the habit.

Canberra’s health sector faced changes and challenges on all levels in 2016

Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer View text version of this page Help using this website – Accessibility statement Join today and you can easily save your favourite articles, join in the conversation and comment, plus select which news your want direct to your inbox. From the beginnings of wide-ranging reforms to the ACT’s health system to bungles in the NDIS roll-out, a bumper influenza season and a Territory election in which health played a central role, 2016 has not been without its dramas.

Sydney mother celebrates miracle baby after traumatic journey to motherhood

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We’re all in this together

… for planning permission. Another organisation to benefit was the Male Bag Foundation, known for promoting men’s health via road trips on old postman motorbikes. The donated funds went towards a prostate cancer biopsy machine probe, which would …

Chiropractor returns to Stawell

WELCOME: Ararat and Stawell Chiropractic receptionists Shelly Wadge and Carmen MacDonald welcome Dr Tyler Humphris back to Stawell. PICTURE: Anthony Piovesan Doctor Tyler Humphris has returned to Stawell after five years of study at the world renowned New Zealand College of Chiropractic in Auckland.

Chiropractor returns to Stawell

WELCOME: Ararat and Stawell Chiropractic receptionists Shelly Wadge and Carmen MacDonald welcome Dr Tyler Humphris back to Stawell. PICTURE: Anthony Piovesan Doctor Tyler Humphris has returned to Stawell after five years of study at the world renowned New Zealand College of Chiropractic in Auckland.

Threshold Pharmaceuticals and National Cancer Institute to Collaborate on Drug Candidate TH-3424

Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for cancer, today announced that it has entered into a collaboration with the National Cancer Institute , part of the National Institutes of Health , to study TH-3424, the company’s new drug candidate for the treatment of cancer. The collaboration will explore the effects of TH-3424 against T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia xenograft cell lines with high AKR1C3 expression.