Posts by Team VIVA!

Government officials and health experts are fuming over the launch of Australia’s first IV hydration “Hangover Clinic” designed to speed recovery from the consumption of excessive alcohol. Given alcohol is the nation’s most widely used drug, according to the Australian Drug Foundation, there is cause for concern that the Hangover Clinic could further aid and…

Providing quality care is not always popular among patients, with researchers from King’s College, London, revealing GPs reluctance to prescribe antibiotics leaves them feeling less than pleased with their consultation. An observational study of more than 95 per cent of general practices between 2012-13 revealed GPs who prescribed 25 per cent fewer antibiotics than the…

Maintaining your fitness without exercising sounds like a dream, right? Well, international research is set to turn this fact on its head, with the introduction of an ‘exercise pill’ promising to generate the effects of exercise without expending any energy. A new study conducted by University of Sydney and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, published…

Health experts are growing increasingly infuriated by a new “pox party” trend where ‘anti-vaxxers’ – parents conscientiously opposed to vaccinating their children – are dealing with the issue of immunity by exposing their non-immunised children to children with contagious diseases (e.g. chicken pox, measles), in order to activate/stimulate an immune response. The controversy of this…

In what has been dubbed a “fast-tracked plan to eradicate Hepatitis C” in Australia, the Federal Government yesterday (December 20, 2015) pledged to invest AUD$1 billion over the next five years to subsidise the cost of four-combination-therapies or “new generation” treatments for the potentially life-threatening disease.  The Government’s lofty goal in subsidising the “new generation”…