Mark O'Briens Health news Articles
Not content with the demolition job they did on Pan Pharmaceuticals (see Power Balance bands sham for a description of the TGA's role on Pan's collapse) Australian media continue to undermine, throu
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Coke Zero has been banned in Venezuela by the government citing concerns that it is harmful to health.
All Coke Zero in Venezuela as of 31/10/09 was to be removed from shelves and destroyed due to c
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Is it possible that Computer Tomography, (CT) scans, actually give you cancer while looking for it? According to a recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine by University of Califo
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A recent study published in the journal PLOS One shows that jetlag and other interruptions to circadian rhythms such as experienced by flight attendants, medical workers, rotating shift workers, can
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The nature and nurture debate has been raging for decades, particularly as it relates to human behaviour. Is a 'good' or 'bad' person born or simply a product of how he is raised, his environment? C
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Contrary to accepted wisdom, which tells us of an ageing population that will absorb an increasing amount of resources, in her book Good Health in the 21st Century, author and GP Dr Carole Hungerfor
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It may well be that many of the mental disorders that are diagnosed and for which drugs are prescribed for are just a result of poor sleeping habits.
The impact of sleep deprivation is only recently
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A preservative E211, known as sodium benzoate, which is in most soft drinks, pickles and sauces, has been implicated in some serious health problems.
Sodium benzoate has already caused concern as wh
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Is swine flu really dangerous or is it a media beat up, a corporate scam to sell $1billion worth of vaccines? Can public policy driven by shock jocks and their scare campaigns ever be good for anybo
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In an article published in the Public Library of Science journal, The Imperative to Share Clinical Study Reports: Recommendations from the Tamiflu Experience published April 10, 2012, researchers h
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A report by the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe into the Swine Flu pandemic released on June 4/10 (see) says that there was 'overwh
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A recent study at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania showed that many monkeys given standard doses of childhood vaccines developed autism and autism spectrum symptoms.
The findings of the
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