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Stroke is very common in Australia, but due to the difficulty in recognising it and quickly getting to the hospital, there is often a delay before treatment is started.

Many professionals feel that ADHD is not an actual diagnosis reliant upon certain conditions being met, but is a catch-all term for a range of difficult behaviours with different causes.

Heart specialists say that if everyone were able to recognise the signs of stroke and get to the Emergency Room for treatment within 3 hours there would be much less disability, brain damage, and long-term suffering from stroke.

According to the PolyCystic Ovarian Syndrome Foundation, this condition affects between 5 – 10% of women of childbearing age worldwide, and an estimated half million Australian girls and women, but most people have still never heard of it.

Over 205,000 Australian school children are smoking on a weekly basis. 24% of them are illegally supplied by tobacco retailers. Tobacco is not a matter of ‘informed adult lifestyle choice’ as misleadingly portrayed by the tobacco industry – it is in fact routinely a result of childhood recruitment and addiction. Any society worth its salt protects its children. We need to protect our children from tobacco promotion and exposure.

It has long been said that, ‘true beauty is on the inside.’ Yet more and more, we seem to be unhappy with our external appearances, some resorting to the surgeon’s knife in an attempt to change their appearance to fir their perceptions of what beauty looks like. Does cosmetic surgery truly improve body image, or is it merely patching up the outside, when the true problem lies within?

Alzheimer’s Disease is just one kind of dementia. Dementia is the term used to describe the symptoms of a large group of illnesses, which cause a progressive decline in a person’s mental functioning. It is a broad term, which describes a loss of memory, intellect, rationality, social skills and normal emotional reactions.

Macular Degeneration (MD) causes central vision loss and is the leading cause of blindness in Australia. It affects one in seven people over the age of 50 in some way and the incidence increases with age. Vision impairment is an important issue facing the present and future generations of older Australians. The disease can affect a person’s quality of life and level of independence, including their physical, emotional, economic and social well being.

Eating foods the body quickly converts into blood glucose – such as highly processed breakfast cereals and most white breads – leads to a greater risk of diabetes, heart disease, and some types of cancer.

When you think of nanotechnology, you think of something that is so advanced and something from a science fiction novel or film. But beware nanotechnology is very real and already happening under our noses and we just don’t know about it.