Melbourne, Australia News Archives

A study of the first universal parenting programme, designed to prevent early child behaviour problems, shows that it has little impact on toddler behaviour. via Newswise

We hear it every day, "Oh, I wish I could look like Angelina." Or, "Oh, to have Brad's abs -- I'd do anything." With increasing availability of aesthetic plastic surgery, ongoing improvement and refinements in ... via EMaxHealth

“It's striking that the Cochrane review came to different conclusions than the older reviews.”

Antidepressants might be worthless for treating low back pain, suggests a new review that found no evidence to support using the drugs in this way. via Newswise

“If you are in Australia and not in Sydney you are basically camping out.”

VICTORIAN Premier John Brumby has warned Melburnians they risk living in a "backwater" like Adelaide if Victoria is not allowed to push ahead with a plan to deepen a channel in Port Phillip Bay. via NEWS.com.au

“Participants randomized to surgical therapy were more likely to achieve remission of type 2 diabetes through greater weight loss.”

Featured Article Main Category: Diabetes Also Included In: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness ; GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology Article Date: 23 Jan 2008 - 3:00 PST newsletters Gastric banding surgery appeared ... via Medical News Today

“Obesity and type 2 diabetes are likely to be the 2 greatest public health problems of the coming decades. The conditions are strongly linked, with the increased prevalence of diabetes correlating with the increased prevalence of obesity”

Preliminary research indicates that obese patients with type 2 diabetes who had gastric banding surgery lost more weight and had a higher likelihood of diabetes remission compared to patients who used ... via Newswise

“They're actually coming in from Melbourne to the Gold Coast and flying to KL. "Sydney is a bit less, probably about 6 per cent, and a big chunk, of course, is from the Gold Coast and Brisbane.”

MALAYSIAN carrier AirAsiaX wants to start selling fares for a new, low-cost, long-haul service to Victoria as soon as March and says it plans to add another Australian destination each year for the next five ... via News.com.au

HE CLAIMED to be worth millions and his many high-profile friends included celebrity hairdresser Joh Bailey and designer Peter Morrissey, but flamboyant Melbourne property developer Mark Stanley admits he is ... via The Age

“Dad wanted to migrate here years ago but Mum wouldn't let him.”

Australia welcomed 103 new citizens in a cheerful ceremony at Melbourne Town Hall this morning led by the city's immigrant Lord Mayor John So. via The Age

Photo / Reuters Australia's new Labor Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, will start his parliamentary term in two weeks with the nation even more firmly locked behind him than at the November election that ended the ... via MyTown

“Whenever one of the invincible Gen Y icons we have grown up watching is taken from us, this immortal generation is shocked to the core”

It was the text message heard 'round the world for a generation of young movie fans: "Heath Ledger is dead." It went whizzing from cellphone to cellphone and city to city as teens texted or called one another ... via 900 CHML AM

Quietly, Vietnam's Catholic Church is challenging the nation's government more boldly than it ever has since the communists took power over five decades ago. via PR-inside.com

Judges Fond of Probation: An unnamed Children's Court judge in Melbourne, Australia, sentenced eight boys to probation in November even though he had found them guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage girl, ... via The Mankato Free Press

“It doesn't seem to matter how you lose it”

New research suggests that gastric lap-band surgery isn't only for the most obese; it can also combat diabetes in people who aren't severely fat. via CBC News

“We found no clear evidence to support the clinician's prescription of antidepressants in reducing pain and depression for patients with chronic low back pain”

Washington, Jan 23: They are commonly prescribed for low back pain, but a new review by Cochrane researchers has found no clear evidence that antidepressants work on this chronic pain. via Daily India

“It's the best therapy for diabetes that we have today, and it's very low risk”

A new study gives the strongest evidence yet that obesity surgery can cure diabetes. via The Oregonian

The Associated Press Tuesday, January 22, 2008; 1:09 AM MELBOURNE, Australia -- Two Australian robbers were sentenced Tuesday for their April Fools Day heist at the Cuckoo Restaurant, where they thought they ... via The Washington Post

“Had the defendant been able to provide today a permanent (Australian) address and satisfied me he had the financial means to sustain himself, I would have granted bail”

MELBOURNE, Australia : An Australian court refused bail Monday to a German backpacker accused of importing child pornography, because he could not prove he had a place to stay or money to support himself in the ... via International Herald Tribune

A potential yummy mummy watches the Fashion in the Field parade at the Melbourne Cup in Melbourne, Australia, on Nov. via The Taipei Times

“Hotel California', 'Desperado', 'Take It To The Limit', 'Life In The Fast Lane”

Following the success of 'Long Road Out Of Eden', the Eagles will return to the UK for four shows at the O2 Arena on March 20, 22, 23 and 26. via Undercover

“The mechanisms underpinning the therapeutic effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may not be as simple as what is commonly perceived.”

Unmedicated depressed patients have elevated brain serotonin turnover, according to a report in the January Archives of General Psychiatry. via Medscape

“From 2008 onwards Rio Tinto is poised for exceptional growth as we reap the rewards of investment in exploration, resources, infrastructure, technology and people”

MELBOURNE, Australia_Rio Tinto Ltd. was upbeat Friday about the outlook for economic growth in China, its key market, and said the company is poised for rapid growth in 2008. via Customer Interaction Solutions

“We believe this research will further the search for the factors that determine which people with the genetic markers for hemochromatosis go on to develop this very serious disease”

Research in today's New England Journal of Medicine shows hereditary hemochromatosis is much more common than previously thought and will spur more study to determine who is most likely to develop complications ... via Health News Digest

MELBOURNE, Jan. 16 A Melbourne, Australia, teenager has been charged with producing child pornography after pictures of semi-naked girls were taken at a party he hosted. via Earth Times

“At least 10 people died from our side”

"A man threw a grenade near a police station in Guwahati injuring 17 people, including a paramilitary soldier," senior police official G.P. Singh said late on Sunday. via The Taipei Times

“It just wouldn't work for me at the moment. "I always come back - it is one of my homes. It's my heart's home. And I just have a really dumb happy look on my face every time I land.”

KYLIE MINOGUE is quietly planning a permanent return to her native Melbourne, Australia because she gets more and more nostalgic about her youth there when she visits. via PR-inside.com

They range from the IT Apprentice, Winston Fleece, to the Software Engineer, Reginald Transfer, through to the big Corporate Computer Cahuna - Harry Hoard. via PR-inside.com

From Wall Street Journal : "Darren Rowse, the Melbourne, Australia-based writer of ProBlogger.net , a popular blog that teaches other bloggers how to make money, earned roughly $250,000 in 2007 off ads on three ... via Corporate Engagement

“I do feel sorry for everyone in the area”

AN AUSTRALIAN teenager who held a wild house party while his parents were away was yesterday facing a A$20,000 bill after police called in a helicopter to disperse the revellers. via Irish Examiner

“He needs to learn a lesson, and one way or another we will be making sure that happens”

MELBOURNE, Australia : An Australian teenager who threw a wild party while his parents were away could face a hefty fine after police said Monday they might charge him for the cost of breaking the gathering up. via International Herald Tribune

“They're beautiful little girls, they're very outgoing and energetic. They laugh and giggle and love their food and they're very playful and pull each other's hair sometimes. They're just like any other little girls, they just happen to be joined.”

Video Bid to save conjoined twins Two orphaned one-year-old girls conjoined at the head have survived the first stage of complex surgery in Melbourne to separate them. via The Age

“The question is the extent to which the retained earnings in the utility are divided between reinvestment back into the business, as opposed to a dividend to the state government. "That choice is the same as every private sector company faces.”

FOR years, while Australians were enduring tough water restrictions, water utilities were pouring money into state coffers from profits taken from long-suffering customers. via The Australian

“We support it to give parents additional financial support at a time when many are dropping back to one income and facing increased costs with one family”

SOME of Australia's richest suburbs have reported massive increases in claims for the baby bonus amid mounting evidence the policy - which Peter Costello intended to lift the fertility rate - has become another ... via News.com.au

More charges have been filed against an Australian man accused of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old Iowa boy when he was in Omaha to meet the boy's uncle. via KWQC-TV Davenport

Pituitary volume predicts future transition to psychosis in individuals at ultra-high risk of developing psychosis. via CiteULike

“Quotes from Apple and Chadstone management confirm the new store, planned to open in Feb 08, soon after the flagship store in Sydney”

Apple Store, Melbourne? ifoAppleStore reports that Apple appears to be planning to open a new Apple Store in the Chadstone Shopping Centre situated in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. via World of Apple

“Important differences may be related to doxorubicin and docetaxel scheduling, with sequential, but not concurrent, administration appearing to produce better [disease-free survival] than anthracycline-based adjuvant chemotherapy”

Adding the drug docetaxel to anthracycline-based chemotherapy slightly improved disease-free survival in breast cancer patients, according to a randomized clinical trial published online January 8 in the ... via Physics Blog

“Why would the Government be so accommodating to illegal immigrants but not as hospitable to farmers who put food on the table for Australians and people overseas?”

Article from: Sunday Herald Sun FOREIGN criminals, boat people and immigration cheats each cost taxpayers more than $1000 a week. via NEWS.com.au

“The chances of this happening are very low, but obviously we are erring on the side of caution”

MELBOURNE, Australia_Australian automaker GM Holden Ltd. has recalled 86,000 cars sold in Australia, the Middle East, New Zealand and Brazil because of a risk that an engine bay fuel leak could cause a fire, a ... via Customer Interaction Solutions

“Professionally she has achieved more than she could ever have hoped for and she's very clear about what she wants for the future”

Aussie pop singer Kylie Minogue has expressed her desire to be a mother before the end of 2008. via AndhraNews

“The association between retinopathy and moderate-to-severe CAC was present in all ethnic groups and remained significant in both men and women and in persons with and without diabetes or hypertension”

Retinal microvascular changes are associated with increased coronary artery calcification , an indicator of subclinical coronary macrovascular disease, findings from the prospective Multi-Ethnic Study of ... via Rehab Management

- First Nations artists from a Prince Rupert college are getting a world of exposure now that their art is on display in Melbourne, Australia.

Michael Leir, Canada's high commissioner to Australia, recently opened the exhibit, titled People of the Cedar: First Nations Art from the Northwest of Canada, at a hotel in Melbourne.

It's the first time a collection of Northwest Coast art has been commercially exhibited in Australia.

The exhibit's opening follows a visit to the Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art at Northwest Community College by dignitaries for Toi Maori Autearoa. Read more

Stroke. 2008 Published online before print January 3, 2008, doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.492363 Submitted on April 26, 2007 Revised on June 18, 2007 Accepted on July 4, 2007 A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial for ... via Circulation

“In India, normally such boys are (looked after) by their parents, by elders or responsible persons in the family. These kids don't undertake such responsibilities or they don't go into these kind of problems in the house.”

EMERGENCY services are urging people to install smoke alarms after firefighters failed to find any devices in a Footscray house where three Indian students burned to death yesterday. via The Age

“This will enable interested parties to substantiate their interest, and for all such proposals to be evaluated from the perspective of the best interests of all Centro stakeholders.”

MELBOURNE, Australia - Centro Properties Group will put itself up for sale ahead of a Feb. via The Times

A WOMAN whose car hit a tree in Balnarring, on the Mornington Peninsula, is Victoria's first road death victim of 2008. via News.com.au