More than half of the pregnant teenagers in Tasmania continue to smoke, despite a wave of information campaigns aimed at stopping the practice.  |  |


Flinders University in Adelaide has closed one of its research facilities after it found that a researcher had cross-bred genetically-modified mice.  |  |
The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) says it is worried the Federal Government will use Australia's slowing economy as an excuse to delay a national paid maternity leave scheme.  |  |
The owners of Coogee Bay Hotel have acknowledged the family which claimed it was served ice-cream with faeces in it, played no part in the contamination.  |  |


The Northern Territory Government has reported an outbreak of a potentially deadly disease in the Borroloola community, about 850 kilometres south-east of Darwin.  |  |
Doctors are using traditional Indigenous art to teach Aboriginals in the Northern Territory about good health.  |
A scientist leading research into the deadly Hendra virus says researchers are still trying to understand the disease and develop a vaccine.  |
The Launceston General Hospital hopes to free up beds next winter by sharing resources with regional hospitals.  |
A Japanese government report says that the number of crimes committed by the elderly has doubled in the past five years.  |
New research shows that women who smoke during pregnancy were nearly 2.5 times more likely to have babies with oral clefts.  |
A new study out of Denmark suggests that women who use nicotine patches or gum during pregnancy do not increase the risk of stillbirth and that nicotine replacement therapy could be considered a "possible harm-reduction strategy."  |
Background:In many different countries the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS) is used to assess the safety culture in hospitals. Accordingly, the questionnaire has been translated into Dutch for application in the Netherlands. The aim of this study was  |
In this primer, we give a review of the inverse problem for EEG source localization. This is intended for the researchers new in the field to get insight in the state-of-the-art techniques used to find approximate solutions of the brain  |
Background:The ELR+CXC chemokines are multifunctional mediators that are mainly responsible for the recruitment of leucocytes to sites of inflammation and infection. Because of their high sequence identity with mammalian IL-8, fish IL-8-like CXCs have been named as piscine 'IL-8' and  |
Background:Several fluorine-18 labelled fluoroamino acids have been evaluated as tracers for the quantitative assessment of cerebral protein synthesis in vivo by positron emission tomography (PET). Among these, 2-[18F]fluoro-L-tyrosine (2-[18F]Tyr) has been studied in mice at a low specific activity. Its  |
Background:Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women and a leading cause of death from cancer in women in Europe. Although breast cancer incidence is on the rise worldwide, breast cancer mortality over the past 25 years has  |
Background:'Omics' tools provide novel opportunities for system-wide analysis of complex cellular functions. Secondary metabolism is an example of a complex network of biochemical pathways, which, although well mapped from a biochemical point of view, is not well understood with regards  |
Background:This study used a large-scale cancer database in determination of prognostic factors for the survival of lung cancer subjects in Taiwan.Methods:Total of 24,910 subjects diagnosed with lung cancer was analysed. Survival estimates by Kaplan-Meier methods. Cox proportional-hazards model estimated the  |
Background:This paper presents a retrospective statistical study on the newly-released data set by the Stanley Neuropathology Consortium on gene expression in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. This data set contains gene expression data as well as limited demographic and clinical data  |
Background:Collaborations are important to health promotion in addressing multi-party problems. Interest in collaborative processes in health promotion is rising, but still lacks monitoring instruments. The authors developed the DIagnosis of Sustainable Collaboration (DISC) model to enable comprehensive monitoring of public  |
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