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PM Turnbull takes hard stance on vaccinations:  Malcolm Turnbull is confident his plan to ban unvaccinated children from childcare centres and pre-schools will be enforced Australia-wide. The prime minister has written to state and territory leaders asking them to support a http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2017/03/12/pm-turnbull-takes-hard-stance-on-vaccinations.htmlnational policy and more … [Read more...]

Monitoring hepatitis C treatment uptake in Australia: Hepatitis C will be eradicated in Australia by 2026, researchers predict.

Don’t Do This: 156 Medical Practices That Are All Failures:  One problem is that people are easily fooled by self-interested con artists selling snake oil: homeopathy and

Shonky supplements ‘science’ a cash cow: The Four Corners (ABC) report on complementary supplements showed unequivocally that multivitamins are a waste of money and just create “very expensive urine”. The Australian Medical Association president also says there is a lack of evidence showing multivitamins work.… [Read more...]

Sorry, alternative health people: feeling better after a therapy is no proof it works: Every day, alternative health practitioners see patients who improve after receiving their treatment and feel it is wrong to doubt their experience. For them, the proof of the pudding is in … [Read more...]

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On Health: Debunking detox diets:A detox diet supposedly gets rid of toxins from the body, helping you to cleanse your system and to lose weight in the process, according to the School of Public Health of University of California, Berkeley. However, this … [Read more...]

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The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists: Scientists all over the world, including graduate students, senior professors, laboratory heads, and Fields Medalists, say that in a variety of ways, their careers are being hijacked by perverse incentives. The result is … [Read more...]