Posts by Team VIVA!
Piping hot tea drinkers at potential risk of developing oesophageal cancer – December 10, 2015
Everyone loves a good cuppa, whether first thing in the morning, at noon or with supper. However, new research reveals that if you have a preference for scaldingly hot tea, you’re putting yourself at risk of oesophageal cancer. So how hot is hot? The new research was conducted in North Iran, a region that worships…
Read MoreOTC codeine rescheduling deferral at odds with rising harmful opioid misuse
The recent TGA decision to defer the rescheduling of codeine-containing OTC medications conflicts with rising codeine analgesics misuse, its devastating consequences and the recognition that opioid misuse is a public health concern. Further, the TGA’s own acknowledgement of low dose codeine efficacy, genetic variances in codeine metabolism and established misuse side-effects from combination OTC products, gives little…
Read MoreAre you living with “Tech neck”? A 21st century health phenomenon – December 2, 2015
Do you spend hours each day, wedded to your computer? Are you guilty of spending most of the day slouched over, texting on your phone? Do you have neck pain that won’t subside? Despite all of its merits, our obsession with technology is damaging our health. ‘Tech neck’ or ‘text neck’ is caused by the…
Read More$1 million granted to research a solution to break Australia’s growing ice addiction – December 1, 2015
In a bid to tackle the growing public health issue of amphetamine addiction, The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has awarded more than $1 million to conduct the nation’s largest clinical trial of medical treatment for “ice” addiction to date. The urgency of this research stems from what has been described this year, as an ice…
Read MoreAndrea, 51 – Active mother-to-one & breast cancer survivor
Happily married mother to an adolescent daughter, Andrea, 51, Melbourne, leads a healthy lifestyle, playing netball, coaching basketball, and dragon boat racing with 20 fellow team paddlers. Her lifestyle nowadays however, is a far cry from 12 years ago, when she was living in Toronto, Canada, with her husband and four year old daughter, when…
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