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Mental health workers will improve their understanding of cultural and linguistic diversity through a new resource to be funded by the State Government and delivered by The University of Western Australia.

UCSF Study Shows Digital Cognitive Training Improves Brain Function and Behavior for People with Schizophrenia

The National Heart Foundation of Australia has urged those Australians who take statins to reduce their cholesterol to keep taking their medication until they can discuss any concerns with their doctor.

The Australian community could be saving a maximum of $4.2billion if all heart attack survivors began taking fish oil supplements, a new report by Deloitte Access Economics (commissioned by the Complementary Healthcare Council of Australia) claims.

Desk-confined employees would be able to ward off considerable health risks if they take a break every 20 minutes and flex some muscles.

A new technique that could provide a prosthetic limb that moves and responds like an actual flesh and blood limb has been a major goal for researchers and physicians for years. Now a joint project by researchers from Sandia National Laboratories, the University of New Mexico and the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has found a way for amputees to gain better control over their prosthetics with help from their own nervous systems.

Taking vitamin D while still young may be good for the body in the long run. Results from a study conducted by the University of Zurich have confirmed that sufficient amounts of vitamin D taken consistently are necessary to maintain bone health.

Several specific regions of our brains are activated in a two-part process when we are exposed to deceptive advertising, according to new research conducted by a North Carolina State University professor.

Southeast Asia still seems to be the top on the destination list for backpackers and gap-year aficionados.

A new study jointly conducted by researchers at the University of California Berkeley (UCB) and the University of Toronto showed that those who have more were most likely to take advantage of their better status while those who have just enough seemed more content and willing to give way, and even share when necessary.

Bats have been hosting flu virus for many years, according to a new research findings published on Monday by scientists working for the U.S.-based Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

While most people in the west would agree there are more places in Asia where one can live more cheaply than in their own country, more than a half dozen cities in Asia ranked as more expensive to live in than the highest ranked cities in the United States or UK.

On the hunt for furniture that's been used, abused and splattered with a delightful array of bodily fluids? You're in luck as New York's dysfunctional public transit overlords plan to sell off obsolete wooden subway benches.

Influenza, commonly known as flu, affects as many as one in five Americans each year, while more than 200,000 get hospitalized due to seasonal flu-related complications, yet many still do not get vaccinated, reports said.

Hollywood actress and “It” girl Emma Stone walked the red carpet of the 84th Academy Awards in a Giambattista Valli couture gown that somehow resembled the Balenciaga creation that Nicole Kidman wore in Oscars 2007.

It's hardly rare to upstage the main event, which is the Oscars. But the Vanity Fair 2012 party might have outdone the Oscars red carpet arrivals with its star studded attendees and better looking gowns.

Brisbane train network shutdown was triggered by a single clamp according to authorities. The rush flow of the 25,000-volt power, which caused trains to stop going inside the CBD, developed traffic jams on the city roads.Annatacia Palaszczuk, transport minister, claimed that engineers have already repaired the power line and that train services were returning to their normal operations.

Former Disney stars have a knack at hitting up the red carpet and after party events. The 2012 After Oscar Awards Party is one bash they wouldn’t miss for the world. Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale and Sarah Hyland go Hollywood glam in Oscar-worthy gowns.

Did you know that vaccinating your cat with the typical, recommended feline vaccination schedule may lead to your furry friend developing cancer?

What if it was possible to eliminate much of the world's otherwise very-slowly-biodegrading plastic waste using a natural Amazonian fungus?

Angelina Jolie was once again put on the spotlight at the red carpet of the recently concluded 84th Academy Awards, adding most attention to her right leg. The 36-year-old actress arrived with Brad Pitt who was nominated in the Best Actor category for "Moneyball."

“Hunger Games” star, Liam Hemsworth and his pop princess girlfriend, Miley Cyrus ditched the casual wear and opted for elegant at last night’s after Oscars party. By the looks of it, dressing up paid off because they wowed the whole Hollywood crowd and made it to the best dressed list of Oscars 2012.

Elton John's huge Oscar after party turned into a dress-off between some of today’s hottest female celebrities. Who came and who wore the best dress?

Before, to be diagnosed with the big C seemed to be an implied death sentence. Patients even go through a stage of self-denial. Who can blame them? Conventional medicine paints a rather bleak future for cancer patients and the remedy it offers does nothing to improve their quality of life, nausea and falling hair not to mention.

The expression "he/she died of a broken heart" is often used to describe someone who has died after having been depressed for a long time. Usually that person drinks or drugs himself/herself to death after a desperate period of loss, bitter disappointment, or environmentally induced depression.

After thousands of years Western medicine is finally recognising the benefits of meditation to treat diseases including mental illness. Under the disguise of MBCT, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, meditation is being accepted as a way to treat various conditions in the field of mental illnesses.

Simultaneous targeting of two different molecules in cancer is an effective way to shrink tumors, block invasion, and stop metastasis, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have found - work that may improve the effectiveness of combination treatments that include drugs like Avastin.

Mitochondria, tiny structures within each cell that regulate metabolism and energy use, may be a promising new target for cancer therapy, according to a new study.

Reyna Robles was always the first one up and the last one to bed: she possessed more than enough steam to come home from her full-time job, prepare a meal for her husband and children, take her dogs for walk and help her kids with homework.