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New Commonwealth Health Hotline for Swine Influenza

The Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing has established a new, national hotline for the public to receive health information about the outbreak overseas of Swine Flu. .

  • Ditch Your Diet on International No Diet Day

    Eating Disorders Victoria (EDV) is calling on all dieters to discard their restrictive and pointless diets and instead embrace a future that involves a healthy relationship with food, starting from International No Diet Day, Wednesday May 6.

  • Sweeping Changes to Freedom of Information Laws

    Application fees will be abolished and a new Freedom of Information umpire will be created under sweeping changes to Freedom of Information (FOI) laws announced recently by the Rudd Government. The biggest changes to the FOI Act since it was passed in 1982 are designed to make it far easier for people to get hold of government information and to force government departments routinely to publish information now kept secret. An information commissioner\'s office will be created and an FOI commissi

  • Adult Stem Cell Breakthrough by Sydney Scientists

    Scientists in Sydney have become the first in the world to use adult stem cells to regrow damaged muscle tissue, offering hope to sufferers of incurable diseases such as muscular dystrophy. The breakthrough procedure has been proven to regenerate muscle in a mouse engineered to have an injured skeletal muscle, but the concept could also be applied to human diseases such as lung disorders, chronic liver disease, and types I and II diabetes. The scientists solved one of the biggest hurdles involvi

  • Health Minister Nicola Roxon Launches First National Breastfeeding Helpline

    Australia's first 24-hour toll-free helpline for breastfeeding mothers was officially launched by federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon, on Friday March 20, in Melbourne.

  • Former Third Day Member Develops Successful Sleep Program

    A Bible-based sleep program developed by a former member of the award-winning Christian band Third Day has been finding notable success in a nation where more than 70 million have a sleeping disorder.

  • GodTube Changes Name to Tangle.com

    Christian video and social networking site GodTube.com has changed its name and purpose.

  • The pain and beauty of uncertainty

    The American novelist Flannery O'Connor once wrote in a letter to a friend, 'I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe. I know what torment this is, but I can only see it, in myself anyway, as the process by which faith is deepened.'

  • Waiting for a Hand Out

    Handshaking began among ancient German duelists as a signal of peaceful intentions. They couldn't draw swords with outstretched hands. An open hand signified friendship. A closed hand may signal a closed heart and a closed fist greed and selfishness.

  • Mr Jitters Helps Children Overcome Anxiety Using Story Book Format

    Southern Community Welfare, a counseling service based in Gymea in Sydney's south has just released a children's book with a difference.

  • ConnectCare Brings Broadband and Technology to Not-for-profit Aged Care Providers

    A leading not-for-profit and industry consortium has begun a project to help small, medium and regionally based aged care facilities to improve their level of care and efficiency through broadband and technology.

  • Faith Leaders Urge Global Solidarity Against HIV

    Christian leaders, who are now more engaged in the HIV/AIDS battle than ever, are calling for solidarity in the fight against the global pandemic on the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day.