The Northern Territory and Queensland outback have the highest death rates from heart disease in the country — while Sydney’s leafy North Shore has the lowest rate. The Heart Foundation mapped the incidence of heart disease and found Queensland is the nation’s heart disease hot spot with 8 regions in the nation’s top 20 for… Read More: Nation’s heart attack hotspots revealed »
According to results from a randomized controlled trial, a high protein reduced calorie diet can help older obese individuals lose more weight and “bad” fat, while maintaining muscle mass and improving bone quality.[1] Geriatricians have struggled with safe weight loss recommendations for the elderly due to the muscle and bone loss that can result from… Read More: A High Protein Reduced Calorie Diet Helps Older People Lose… »
I remember it well. The nuns wanted nothing to do with it, back in the day. From memory they faded deliberately into the background on the day the Sex Talk was due to take place. We girls – 15 and fairly ignorant on the workings of the flesh – were ushered into the geography room… Read More: Catherine O'Mahony: 'Sex ed in the 80s was a box-ticking… »
Pictured in the operating room is the senior author of the study presented at the 15th Annual Academic Surgical Congress: Kristalyn Gallagher, DO, Section Chief of Breast Surgery and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of North Carolina. (Photo: Courtesy of Heather Logghe, MD)Courtesy of Heather Logghe, MD A recent publication in the Annals… Read More: 58% Of Women Surgeons Suffer Sexual Harassment: Why This May… »