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Health Hacker: How to fight lockdown weight gain

Health Hacker Adam MacDougall reveals tips on how to fight lockdown weight gain.




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Feb 22, 2020: Play in a Band & Universal Health Care

Wes Borg and Maddy Kelly strike a chord with their North Vancouver audience over playing in a band. Then, Sean Lecomber and DeAnne Smith fit the billing for their debate on Canada’s health care system.



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The Spark Guide To Life, Episode Three: Health

How data-driven personalization is changing how people manage their own health.




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Chris Hall: Health expert warns reopening provincial economies will be 'tricky'

Some provinces will begin reopening their economies next week, a move one public health expert described as a delicate experiment — because so little is known about how many people are immune, or how long any immunity to the COVID-19 virus might last.



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Health-care workers face wrenching decisions on how to care for COVID-19 patients

Doctors and other health-care professionals are grappling with the difficult job of caring for patients who won’t survive, tough decisions about who will get a ventilator when equipment runs short and whether they’d want one themselves in the event they become severely ill from novel coronavirus.




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COVID-19 and your mental health: We want to hear from you

We want to hear your stories about how the pandemic has impacted your mental health.




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'We're not doing enough': Doctor urges equal health care for the most vulnerable

Co-founder of Partners in Health Dr. Paul Farmer says the COVID-19 pandemic offers many lessons and opportunities for the world, including a chance to reorient how we think about who deserves access to a high standard of health care.




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Omzet telecom daalt maar kwaliteit breedband stijgt

De ACM publiceerde onlangs de meest recente Telecommonitor, een open halfjaarlijkse rapportage, over de status van de telecommarkt in de tweede helft van 2019. Daarin worden naast informatie over marktaandelen en abonnementen in de mobiele- en breedbandmarkt ook de jaaromzetten gepubliceerd die de vaste en mobiele netwerken genereren.




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Passing on the family legacies of medicine, public health work and reggae music

Do you have a vocation that's been passed through your family for generations? For Dr Mark Wenitong — the legacy of health work has been passed from his mother, through him and onto his son. And that's not the only family tradition being continued... Reggae music has also been a big part of his family's livelihood.




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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - Septem verba a Christo (Sophie Karthaüser, Christophe Dumaux, Julien Behr, Konstantin Wolff, Academie für Alte Musik Berlin/Rene Jacobs)

In its own way, the Seven Words of Christ is just as sublime as the Stabat Mater.




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Tasmanian news: Sue Hickey's mayoral pay rise bid, health razor gang fears

DAILY BRIEFING: Controversial Speaker Sue Hickey wanted a pay rise when she was Lord Mayor, and the Opposition accuses the Government of sending in a health budget razor.





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Hairdressers unionise and unite for fight against proposed cut to penalty rates

They do apprenticeships, work with tools and are exposed to chemicals, so why aren't hairdressers paid as well as plumbers? The Australian Workers Union wants that to change.





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Human-to-animal transmission of COVID-19 'unlikely', say health experts

Livestock industries are not immune to the threat of coronaviruses, but experts say the risk of the COVID-19 strain passing to animals remains low.




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Healthy people are volunteering to be infected with coronavirus in the hope of speeding up a vaccine

Would you be willing to be infected with coronavirus if there was a chance of speeding up a vaccine? Thousands of young health people have put their hand up.





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Inquest into death of the 'Porsche kid' hears mental health services were 'non-existent' at Hakea Prison

An inquest into the death of a notorious Perth criminal dubbed "the Porsche kid" is told a prison guard said she "didn't care if he died" during a standoff that ended with him trying to take his own life.






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Mental health on the Covid frontline

The uncertainty, isolation, and danger posed by the Coronavirus pandemic affects the mental health of many people - but for those on the frontline, all of those feelings can be heightened. We talk to health professionals who have been managing their own panic attacks and anxiety. 




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SARS, Ebola and now Covid-19 - world health and the role of the W.H.O.

For over 60 years the World Health Organisation has been the pre-eminent international health organisation but questions have been asked about its response to several infectious diseases. This is the story of the WHO, its strengths and its failings. Episode first aired 1 March 2015




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Waltzing the Wilarra

Last night, Waltzing the Wilarra inspired that same elation, that slight prism shift. This show is funny, poignant and unerringly confident, enlivened by a suite of superb ballads by the play's writer-composer David Milroy.



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Blue Tree Project tackles mental health and suicide in regional Australia

Jayden Whyte tried to get help twice on the day he died. Now he is being remembered through a striking grassroots project that could help others before it's too late.




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Western Australian town fears 'life-threatening' decline in health services

Residents in a regional WA town are fighting against what they say is a life-threatening decline in healthcare services.




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Country footy club allows female player Casey McElroy in men's league, now awaits penalty

A country football club in South Australia is waiting to find out if it will be penalised for allowing a woman to play in the men's competition.




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Beer coasters offer mental health support and awareness in country pubs

Brooke Littlewood was facing a two-month wait for a regional psychologist when she decided to create a series of beer coasters for others who may be struggling.




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The Gympie Country Music Muster is getting naked to 'strip away' mental health's stigma

Not many music festivals would encourage fans to get naked for their events, but the Gympie Music Muster in south-east Queensland is doing just that.




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Commonwealth Games: Matilda enjoys the quiet life after shining in spotlight as 1982 mascot

Like anyone at the end of their working life, when Matilda the Commonwealth Games mascot retired she had one thing in mind travel. Curious Brisbane tracks her adventures these past 36 years, and reveals where she can be found today.





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'We can't wait for another virus': COVID-19 exposes gaps in Aboriginal health care

Official data indicates no Aboriginal people in the NT have tested positive to COVID-19, and as restrictions start to ease, health leaders say it's time to address some of the fundamental holes in Aboriginal health care.




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Low-income countries, health systems and pandemic response

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank play a key role in aiding low- and middle-income countries during a pandemic.




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Remote outback town Innamincka to get telehealth clinic

Innamincka, near the Queensland border, is used to floods of water and tourists and accessing healthcare can be a problem. Now, a new remote "self-service" telehealth clinic aims to change that.




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Shearing the old-fashioned way, sharing stories sparks conversation about mental health and suicide

A group of shearers tired of losing loved ones to suicide hope that, by sharing their stories, they can spark a broader conversation about mental health in regional areas.




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Organic livestock production on lower Darling halted by drought

The drought takes its toll on organic farmers who say the big dry has ruined their ability to meet the conditions of their licences, so they cannot sell their livestock as organic.





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Warmer temperatures spark pool health warning

As warm temperatures continue throughout much of Western Australia, residents are being warned about diseases which lurk in dirty pools and waterways.




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Indigenous over-represented in suicide rates: Mental Health Commissioner

The outgoing Mental Health Commissioner says the state's Indigenous population is over-represented in the suicide rate.




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Collingwood footballer told police he struck in "anger" in Albany nightclub altercation

A Collingwood footballer admitted to police hours after his arrest that he punched a man out of 'anger' following an earlier altercation outside a nightclub. The trial of Magpies defender Marley Williams in the District Court in his home town of Albany, on WA's South Coast, was this morning played the accused's initial interview with police. Williams is charged with grievous bodily harm, after punching then 29-year-old Matthew Robertson outside the Studio 146 nightclub in December 2012.




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Grant money revives hopes for Kojonup health centre

The Shire of Kojonup says its hopes of seeing a new medical centre built in the town could be revived if a State Government grant is reinstated.




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MP condemns call to axe Royalties for Regions

A Western Australian Nationals' MP has labelled "ridiculous" a Liberal backbencher's call for the Royalties for Regions scheme to be abolished.




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Mining boom massively boosts wealth for top income earners

A study shows the mining boom has generated up to 65 per cent more wealth for the top 20 per cent of West Australian households. But the research by Curtin University shows not all areas have reaped the rewards. It analysed the effects of the boom from 2003/04 to its peak in 2009/10 and found while those with higher incomes benefited substantially, other residents also benefited due to increased employment opportunities.




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Saltwater solution for drought towns battling brackish drinking water

Desalination is not just for coastal cities treating seawater. Drought-hit inland towns could use it where emergency bore water supplies are too salty.




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Outback milliner uses high fashion to tackle mental health issues and isolation

Flamboyant fascinators and fedoras, once destined for fashion's grandest stages, help to overcome isolation and mental health issues in outback Australia.




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Fungi for a healthy planet

Fungi are the unsung heroes of recycling. They play a vital role in breaking down organic matter for plants to use. Now we've discovered fungi can clean up oil and plastic. And their root systems are being used to create alternatives to plastic, wood and bricks. Who knew the humble mushroom could be so versatile?



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'We're dead in the water': Wildlife parks hit particularly hard by COVID-19 tourism halt

Wildlife parks have a long road back to financial buoyancy after coronavirus restrictions stripped them of their sole source of income; visitors, and some operators are dipping into personal savings just to keep their animals fed.