"Botox injections to be used to treat migraine headaches"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 11 Jul 2010

Category: Other

Rating: (3 stars)

Keywords: Botox, injection, migrain, headache, UK, research, botulinum, toxin

BOTOX shots, cosmetic injections typically used to smooth facial wrinkles, will now be able to help...
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"Patients hail keyhole heart surgery trials"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 18 May 2010

Category: Surgical Procedure

Rating: (2 stars)

Keywords: keyhole, heart, surgery, Brisbane, trial

AFTER multiple heart operations, doctors gave Ruth Frost, 86, and Jean Chisolm, 78, little hope of...
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"Tai chi moves may benefit those with type 2 diabetes"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 12 Feb 2010

Category: Other

Rating: (1 stars)

Keywords: education, program, tai, chi, type, 2, diabetes

AN ancient form of Chinese exercise may hold hope for staving off a modern illness - type 2...
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"Cancer patients given hope as reovirus shrinks tumours"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 09 Jun 2009

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (3 stars)

A COMMON virus that causes stomach upsets is giving hope to cancer patients by boosting their...
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"Coating contact lens with stem cells could fight blindness"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 28 May 2009

Category: Other

Rating: (2½ stars)

COATING a common contact lens with stem cells could help restore a person's sight within weeks of...
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"Prostate drug offers best hope in 60 years"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 28 May 2009

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2½ stars)

A POWERFUL drug to fight prostate cancer could be available in two years in a development...
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"Tea touted as weight cure"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 03 May 2009

Category: Complementary and Alternative Medicines

Rating: (1½ stars)

IS A new tea coming out of Brisbane really a magic bullet for weight loss? Huge waiting lists at...
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"Fish oil helps brain development in premature baby girls"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 14 Jan 2009

Category: Complementary and Alternative Medicines

Rating: (2½ stars)

PREMATURE baby girls fed high doses of tuna fish oil have significantly better brain development as...
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"New drug discovered to stop effects of Alzheimer's"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 31 Jul 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2 stars)

A NEW drug can halt the devastating progress of Alzheimer's disease, British scientists have...
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"Viagra helps fight sexual dysfunction in women, says study"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 23 Jul 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (1 stars)

THE erectile dysfunction drug Viagra has proven effective at combating sexual dysfunction in...
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"New prostate drug extends life of cancer sufferers"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 22 Jul 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (4 stars)

AN EXPERIMENTAL drug which looks to add years of life to men with advanced prostate cancer has been...
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"Male fertility pill hope for couples"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 07 Jul 2008

Category: Complementary and Alternative Medicines

Rating: (3 stars)

QUEENSLAND doctors are backing a new male over-the-counter fertility pill that claims to double...
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"Cloned cells kill skin cancer"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 19 Jun 2008

Category: Other

Rating: (3½ stars)

DOCTORS have, for the first time, successfully treated a skin cancer patient with cells cloned from...
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"New drug to beat breast cancer"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 28 Feb 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2 stars)

A DRUG which could prevent thousands of young women developing breast cancer has been created by...
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"Not to be sneezed at"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 16 Dec 2007

Category: Other

Rating: (2½ stars)

AN experimental hayfever spray made out of prawn shells is taking the sniffle out of a day in the...
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"Scientists believe they can reverse dementia"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 01 Dec 2007

Category: Other

Rating: (1 stars)

AUSTRALIAN scientists believe they have cracked the code to preventing dementia by restoring the...
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"New pill 'will prevent PMT'"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 27 Sep 2007

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2½ stars)

A NEW contraceptive pill which it is claimed will make pre-menstrual tension a thing of the past is...
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"New hope for cancer treatment"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 16 Sep 2007

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2½ stars)

A WORLD breakthrough by Australian researchers - solving the riddle why some people do not respond...
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"Yoga poses a solution"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 18 Jul 2007

Category: Other

Rating: (1½ stars)

SCIENTISTS have found the first proof that yoga can ease the pain of pre-menstrual tension.
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"Tomatoes help lungs"

Source: The Courier Mail

Published: 05 Jun 2007

Category: Other

Rating: (2 stars)

EATING tomatoes could ease asthma but sufferers would need to munch a wheelbarrow-load each week to...
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