Published on January 14, 2011 by Technology Slice
Macintyre River Rising – The Macintyre River has set a new record flood level, but its rise has slowed significantly as the border town of Goondiwindi waits for it to peak. The river was about 10.66 metres at 9am (AEST) on Friday, past the 10.62 metres set during the town’s 1996 flood. It was expected [...]
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Published on October 27, 2010 by Technology Slice
Childhood Obesity Programs Don’t Work – Most programs for childhood obesity have been of questionable effectiveness and therefore any new initiatives should be tried out on a small scale and with ‘incremental’ adoption says a report from the Productivity Commission. Smoking doubles dementia risk Heavy smoking increases the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and dementia [...]
Tags: Adoption, Archives Of Internal Medicine, Carmel Tebbutt, Chief Executives, childhood obesity, dementia, Final Word, Hospital Networks, Initiatives, Key Role, Local Hospital, Medicine, Nsw Health Minister, Obesity Programs, Parliament, Productivity Commission, risk, Service Planning, Statewide System
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Published on June 11, 2010 by Technology Slice
Man Strangled By Pet Snake, Dies – Cory Byrne, 34, of Papillion died last night at a local hospital, just hours after police and paramedics pried the snake from around his neck, police said. Mr Byrne had been showing the snake to a friend when it wrapped around his shoulders and neck and squeezed, Sarpy [...]
Tags: Captive Wildlife, Clamps, Constrictors, County Attorney, Fatality, Local Hospital, Local Time, Man Strangled By Pet Snake, Mark Langan, Mr Byrne, Nebraska Humane Society, Paramedics, Pet Pythons, Preiss, Pythons, Red Tailed Boa, Red Tailed Boa Constrictor, Sad Reality, Shoulders, Spokesman
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Published on March 3, 2010 by Technology Slice
Kevin Rudd Announces Hospital Plan – The Rudd government has finally announced its plan to fix Australia’s public hospitals, with a $30.9 billion funding takeover as its centrepiece. The giant health and hospital reform program would result in the Commonwealth funding up to 60 per cent of all services, infrastructure and research costs in public [...]
Tags: Canberra, Centrepiece, Commonwealth Grants, Forward Estimates, Gst Revenue, Health Minister, Hospital Networks, Independent Authority, kevin rudd, Local Hospital, Medium Term, Nicola Roxon, Public Hospitals, Raw Deal, Services Infrastructure, Takeover, Territory Leaders, Traditional Model, Treasurer Wayne, Wayne Swan
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