2012-05-10 Food Magazine
Australian researchers have examined three options for beating obesity and discovered they could prevent about 220 000 cases of type 2 diabetes nationwide by 2025.
2012-05-10 The Age - National
Child immunisations could fall as a result of cuts in incentive payments to doctors, the Australian Medical Association has said in comments that have drawn the wrath of a patients' group.
2012-05-10 ABC News
New research suggests that drastic measures such as a tax on fatty foods are needed to tackle obesity and help prevent 250,000 cases of Type 2 diabetes in Australia by 2025.
2012-05-09 The Age - World
A greater proportion of Americans will become obese if nothing is done, with the US obesity rate tipped to possibly rise to 42 per cent of the population from about a third by 2030.
2012-05-09 The Age - National
AAP
The federal government's decision to scrap payments encouraging GPs to immunise children is a threat to public health "of the highest order", doctors say.
2012-05-09 Yahoo!7 News
A multi-million dollar trial into finding the cure for diabetes might be scrapped because there aren’t enough participants.
The federally funded trial is trying to determine whether a nasal vaccine could prevent diabetes.
2012-05-09 Nine MSN - News & Current Affairs
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Australia could be reduced by programs targeting high-risk groups.
More than 2 million Australians, 11.4 per cent of the population, will have diabetes by 2025 if current trends continue, according to Melbourne's Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute.
2012-05-09 Australian Food News
New research from Australia suggests that using a targeted high-risk prevention strategy to tackle obesity could avert around 220,000 cases of type 2 diabetes in the country by 2025.
2012-05-02 The Sydney Morning Herald
CHINA is getting old. Already there are 8 million people aged more than 80 - and by some estimates, there will be 100 million Chinese octogenarians by the middle of this, the Asian century.
2012-05-02 The Conversation
Bad oral health can have a significant negative impact on people’s quality of life. It can also affect other diseases that they may be suffering. But whether oral ill-health causes general health problems depends on what disease you’re talking about.