Doctors defend TV campaign against govt and other top stories.

• Doctors defend TV campaign against govt

  Doctors defend TV campaign against govtDoctors insist a campaign set to hit television screens is all about patients and not about them.The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners claims the federal government's extended freeze on Medicare rebates will eventually cost individual doctors about $50,000 a year."But it's not about doctors' income whatsoever," president Frank Jones told Sky News on Sunday.The ads, which go to air on Sunday, feature a husband imploring his wife to see the do..

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• Listening to music before eye surgery may cut anxiety

  

  Listening to soothing music just before an eye surgery can ease patients' anxiety as well as help reduce the level of sedation required, finds a new study. " Listening to music may be considered as an inexpensive, non-invasive, non-pharmacological method to reduce anxiety for patients undergoing elective eye surgery under local anaesthesia ," said Gilles Guerrier from Cochin University Hospital in France. According to the researchers, being awake during surgery is particula..

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• Zika in Brazil: top Scottish scientists issue stark warnings to Olympic athletes

  

  SCOTLAND'S leading health experts have warned athletes to 'think twice' before going to the Rio Olympics - or even pull out of the games altogether - as fears grow about the Zika virus, which has triggered a world health emergency. Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, said athletes should 'think twice' about attending after the World Health Organization (WHO) rejected a call to move or postpone the Games due to the outbreak of the ..

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• Another nurse assaulted by a patient at RBWH

  

  Another nurse has been assaulted by a patient at the Royal Brisbane and Women's hospital less than a week after another serious incident there.Police were called to the hospital at about 6.30pm on Saturday after a disturbance involving a patient where a 62-year-old female nurse was allegedly assaulted. A nurse has been assaulted by a patient at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. Photo: Dave Hunt A 44-year-old Lutwyche woman was charged with serious assault of a public officer, wilful d..

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• Patients wait on Melbourne's Peter McCallum Cancer Centre

  

  Cellphone-Cancer Link Found in Government Study 4:11A multiyear, peer-reviewed study has a link between cancer and the type of radio frequencies commonly emitted by cellphones. WSJ's Ryan Knutson discusses with Tanya Rivero. Photo: iStock GLEN Cloke never made it to Disneyland, but for he and fellow cancer survivors Jacques LeRoux and Natalia Dewiyani, seeing the new Peter McCallum Cancer Centre is better than any theme park.As the opening of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre draws near..

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• The muddy waters of body mass index (BMI)

  

  “The road is long With many a winding turn That leads us to who knows where” The lyrics of the Hollies hit He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother fit nicely along the convoluted road that is the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and health. From being an accepted arbiter of whether you were overweight, obese or a member of that elusive category, normal, the emperor’s clothes have become somewhat tattered of late. Add conflicting advice on healthy eating, and the world of fitness and heal..

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