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Radio National: Health

Keep your body and brain in top shape with the Health Report and All in the Mind and get involved in daily wellbeing discussions with Life Matters and Australia Talks. With RN's ideas network feeding your senses you'll soon be fit for anything. View story listing.

Recent Health stories on Radio National

Organ donation in AustraliaWednesday, 7 Jan 2009 | Radio National Breakfast

Australian organ donation has climbed to its highest level since transplants began in Australia in the 1960s. [more]

Intellectually disabled people and the NSW courtsTuesday, 6 Jan 2009 | The Law Report

Intellectually disabled people form only two per cent of the population. [more]

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Reconstructive breast surgery after mastectomyMonday, 5 Jan 2009 | Health Report

Cosmetic breast surgery is booming. [more]

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The future of food: can we eat our way out of total confusion?Sunday, 4 Jan 2009 | Big Idea

Has food been replaced by nutrients; and common sense by confusion? Once upon a time we ate food. [more]

A day in the life of...Meet the IngersonsSaturday, 3 Jan 2009 | All In The Mind

Four-year-old Tara has a very special brain. [more]

Dr Stephanie SnowThursday, 1 Jan 2009 | In Conversation

We are not very good at putting up with pain. [more]

Gap kidsMonday, 29 Dec 2008 | Health Report

This is a feature by Heather Stewart about children with a developmental language disorder. [more]

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William of Ockham and the black deathSunday, 28 Dec 2008 | Ockham's Razor

William of Ockham died of plague during the black death epidemic in a convent in Munich either in 1347 or 1349, the exact date is unknown. [more]

The Man Behind 'Vinnies'Sunday, 28 Dec 2008 | The Ark

The Society of St Vincent de Paul began in France in 1833 but its 19th century champion in Australia was the eminent architect and politician Charles O'Neill. [more]

Cafe Scientific: can our thoughts change the structure and function of our brains?Sunday, 28 Dec 2008 | Big Idea

US/Canadian guest speaker Norman Doidge is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet. [more]