Qld govt bans late-night shots and other top stories.

• Qld govt bans late-night shots

  

  Queensland revellers will be banned from buying shots and pre-mixed drinks with a high alcohol content after midnight from July 1.Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath has announced measures designed to curb alcohol-fuelled violence across the state. Shots and pre-mixed drinks with a high alcohol content will be banned in Queensland after midnight from July 1.  The ban on the sale and supply of rapid intoxication drinks after midnight includes jelly shots, bombs and those with more than 45 millil..

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• Study shows rheumatologists underestimate disease severity in OA patients - News

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• Scientists found something strange when they looked at the brains of pot smokers

  

  Marijuana's official designation as a Schedule 1 drug – something with "no accepted medical use" – means it is pretty tough to study. Yet numerous anecdotal reports, as well as some studies, have linked marijuana with several purported health benefits, from pain relief to helping with certain forms of epilepsy. Still, experts say more rigorous scientific analyses are needed. Use of marijuana, a psychoactive drug, can come with risks, especially in people who may be prone to addiction or mental..

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• Frequent antibiotic use putting seniors at risk of antimicrobial resistance: study

  

  The Aged Care National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey looked at prescribing behaviours and frequency of infections in 186 aged-care facilities around the country. It found one in five prescriptions given in residential aged-care facilities were inappropriate, meaning residents were prescribed an antibiotic with no clear infection. One in three prescriptions were prescribed for six months or more, putting residents at a high risk of antimicrobial resistance. In addition, 65 per cent of prescri..

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• How swinging can go very wrong

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• Kids' cereals still too sugary: NZ agency

  

  Kids' cereals still too sugary: NZ agencyMany children's cereals still contain too much sugar, and some are getting worse, New Zealand's consumer agency says.Consumer NZ says that of 50 children's breakfast cereals it looked at, 27 were high in sugar, with the sweetener making up more than 40 per cent of one - Kellogg's Frosties.Eleven others were found to have two-and-a-half teaspoons or more in each 30g serving.Consumer chief Sue Chetwin said although overall the amount of sugar had gone down ..

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• MS Cure: Immune System Replacement Reverses Devastating Disease, Offers Hope To Millions

  

  This week, scientists at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute announced that they have finally discovered a cure for MS. Dr. Harold Atkins is Medical Director of the Regenerative Medicine Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and he is convinced that a treatment called IAHSCT can now be used to treat people whose lives have been devastated by the disease. “Our trial is the first to show the complete, long-term suppression of all inflammatory activity in people with MS.” The 13-ye..

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