GLOBAL demand for healthy, natural foods is helping to drive a resurgence in carob production in Australia. South Australian businesses Australian Carob Company and The Carob Kitchen are the two largest producers in Australia and have found export success with their nutritious carob bars, powders and syrups. Carob rose to popularity in the 1980s as […]
Are you looking for a nursing home for yourself or a loved one? People go to nursing homes for different reasons. They may be sick or hurt and require ongoing nursing care. They may have had surgery and need time to recuperate. Or they may have chronic care needs or disabilities that make long-term nursing […]
ENT researchers are targeting cytokine-producing cells they believe could be among the chief causes of chronic rhinosinusitis. Dijana Miljkovic, who works in a team led by one of the world’s foremost sinus surgeons Peter-John Wormald at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in South Australia, recently discovered the presence of TH17 cells in chronic sinusitis sufferers. Following […]
A health software company specialising in “relational agents” for assistive care has begun trials of its new diabetes coach program in the United States. South Australian company Clevertar is running the trials in Pennsylvania as it progresses its plan of reaching global markets with its “Anna Cares” software. The company has also received a $600,000 […]
Breakthrough in Paralysis Research powered by every step taken at the Wings for Life World Run Wings for Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation and Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation unite to advance a groundbreaking therapy for spinal cord injury. (SALZBURG, March 5, 2015) – It all started with a single toe. Even today, Dr. Susan […]
What is The Holiday Heart Syndrome? By Patrick Neustatter, MD My brother-in-law, Olly, likes a spot of red wine, but usually by the bottle rather than by the glass. When my wife Paula and I were visiting, he managed to drink himself into the “holiday heart syndrome”, despite it not being the holidays. Now that […]
A European population-based registry was designed to provide robust information on the epidemiology and characteristics of CML. All cases of newly diagnosed CML in a sample of almost 93 million adults in 20 European countries were registered. These data allow results of prospective trials to be generalized to most countries. The Evaluating Nilotinib Efficacy and […]
RESEARCHERS have uncovered a group of genes that can suppress the hepatitis C virus (HCV) from infecting the liver. Associate Professor Michael Beard, who heads the University of Adelaide’s Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory, said his team have been able to show for the first time that antiviral proteins (known as the IFITM proteins) produced by the […]
A NEW class of drug that reduces cancer recurrence and spread may soon be available, with South Australian biopharmaceutical company Bionomics having passed review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with their product BNC101. The drug targets hard-to-treat colorectal and pancreatic cancers, but may also prove suitable to treat breast, lung and other […]
Passage of time: why people with dementia switch back to the past PEOPLE diagnosed with dementia often have a distorted sense of time passing. My friends who are clinicians often comment on their patients with dementia preparing and arriving for their appointments many hours before they’re scheduled. Dementias such as Alzheimer’s disease progressively impair cognition, […]
