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Monday 08 March 2010
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In this program we look at some of the possible causes of childhood obesity and what effect genes may have on eating behaviour. We also talk to a researcher who's involved in developing ways to help children and their parents to combat childhood obesity.
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A new venture, the Home Grown School Feeding Project, aims to provide food for underfed children in Sub-Saharan Africa. Rather than importing food from donor countries, they focus on providing the food from local sources.
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Monday 01 March 2010
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At the recent conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Diego, California, scientists reported on their work investigating chemicals that increase the risk of breast cancer.
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Ovarian cancer has a high mortality rate, as the disease is often not diagnosed until it's in the advanced stage and has spread. In this program we look at new research into ways to diagnose the disease and screen for it in order to save lives.
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Monday 22 February 2010
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Just when you're beginning to relax about pandemic influenza, you're going to hear about relatively mysterious viruses which come and go for no reason, but when they re-appear and infect humans, up to 80% of them die. We have some of these viruses here too on our doorstep. And if you thought Ebola virus just occurred somewhere in Africa, well an Ebola virus has been coming and going in the Philippines, and again we don't know why. Plus an exotic sounding virus that's spreading around the world -- and Australian mosquitoes are the door through which it will come.
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Monday 15 February 2010
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Professor Victor Montori from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, talks about his research into evidence-based medicine. Professor Montori is particularly interested in how knowledge is produced, distributed and taken up in medical practice, as well as the patients' role in their medical treatment.
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Monday 08 February 2010
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Australians don't realise that many of the medications they'll be consuming in the future will have been trialled in India. The reasons drug companies are going there are that it's cheap and ethical controls are weak or non-existent. Indian researchers are sounding warnings. Also, an eminent statistician talks about problems in reporting of medical trials.
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