Experts are warning high levels of fatty liver disease among young people could signal a public health crisis. Fatty liver disease is normally associated with people in their 50’s and 60’s and is linked to excess weight or alcohol use.However a major new study reveals one in five young adults has evidence of fatty liver … Read more
The world’s first personalised mRNA cancer jab for melanoma — which also has the potential to stop lung, bladder and kidney cancer — is being tested in British patients. The jab, which offers hope of a cure, is custom-built for each person in just a few weeks. It works by telling the body to hunt … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS — Smokers in Minneapolis will pay some of the highest cigarette prices in the country after the City Council voted unanimously Thursday to impose a minimum retail price of $15 per pack to promote public health. The ordinance not only sets a floor price. It prevents smokers and retailers from getting around it by … Read more
A 33-year-old man has been charged with threatening two paramedics in Adelaide with a firearm when they were called to provide medical support. The ambulance officers were called to a home at Evanston Park at 7.20pm on Sunday, April 14 to treat the 33-year-old man. “While the ambulance officers were treating the man, he allegedly … Read more
An Adelaide couple have thanked a triple-0 operator who guided them through the birth of their son over the phone. Ben and Tiana Green said they planned an at-home water birth for the arrival of their second child with a midwife in December. But Tiana’s contractions started earlier than expected, and she went into labour … Read more
A culture of long hours of unpaid overtime for junior doctors will need to change following a multimillion-dollar underpayment settlement, believed to be the biggest in Australian history. More than 20,000 junior doctors could share in a $229.8 million settlement pending NSW Supreme Court approval for a class action against the state’s health department. The … Read more
Melbourne will not get a second supervised drug injecting room despite a Victorian government report pushing for the facility. Premier Jacinta Allan and Mental Health Minister Ingrid Stitt ruled out another centre on Tuesday and instead announced increased medical support. They said $95 million would be spent on health strategies including $36.4 million to establish … Read more
HELENA, Mont. — A federal jury on Monday said Warren Buffett’s BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of two people who were exposed to asbestos decades ago when tainted mining material was shipped through a Montana town where thousands have been sickened. The jury awarded $4 million each in compensatory damages to the estates of … Read more
HELENA, Mont. — BNSF Railway attorneys told a Montana jury Friday that the railroad should not be held liable for the lung cancer deaths of two former residents of an asbestos-contaminated Montana town, one of the deadliest sites in the federal Superfund pollution program. Attorneys for the company say the corporate predecessors of the railroad, … Read more
An Adelaide teenager was in hospital for about six months when what was believed to be a common cold turned out to be an invasive sepsis infection. Harry Trowbridge, now 14, began showing common cold symptoms last year before his health quickly declined, his mother, Meagan Mercurio, said. She said within three days Harry began … Read more
