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Sleep apnoea affects 25% of Australian men and 9% of Australian women.The most common form is called obstructive sleep apnoea, where your airwaymay be blocked for 10 seconds to several minutes during sleep. Your brain runs low on oxygen and so triggers th

Old wives tales and urban myths abound around the treatment of colds and flu. How do you sort out the facts from all the fiction?Sneezing and coughing is the only way infection is spreadFiction: Breathing in the expelled droplets from an infected person’s cough or sneeze will certainly expose you to

GLUE EAR: ARE ANTIBIOTICS AND GROMMETS THE ONLY OPTION?Many children will have ear infections that are painful, but generally not serious, and they will recover quickly. But some cases linger, and this is the most commoncause of hearing loss in children. When it lasts f

TICK BORNE DISEASESAs the weather warms up in Sydney, encounters with ticks become morecommon as adult ticks actively seek a host in the moist humid bush. The tickcrawls up the body underneath clothing and attaches by biting through the skin,often around the head or neck. The most&nbs

DIAGNOSIS OF DIABETESType 2 diabetes affects just under 1 million Australians, and there is stillone person undiagnosed for every diagnosed person, meaning theremay be as many as 2 million with the disease. Diabetes is a major risk factorfor cardiovascular disease, blindness, kid

SHINGLESIt is estimated that by 85 years of age, about half of all Australians will haveexperienced an episode of shingles (herpes zoster). It is caused by thesame virus that causes chickenpox - the varicella zoster virus. The first exposureto the virus causes chickenpox, then the&nbs