The State of Victoria’s Children Report (October 2006) identified that children living in rural areas were more likely to have poor oral health, with more toothache and fillings and more tooth extraction and dental treatment in hospital, than their metropolitan peers.

While the report generally tells a good news story about how Victoria’s children are [...]

Dental treatment features high on the list of life’s essentials identified in a Bulletin published by the Towards New Indicators of Disadvantage project.

This project is a collaboration between researchers at the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) and analysts from the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS), Mission Australia, the Brotherhood of St Laurence [...]

The FDA is considering issuing drug report cards that inform the public about problems with drugs and drug side effects. This would be for drugs that the FDA has already approved. MSNBC.com reports the FDA is looking for new ideas following the “public outcry over the withdrawal of the painkiller Vioxx.”

As part of a [...]

The AFP reports that a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says billions will suffer from lack of water and food by 2080. Water will be in short supply for about 1 to 3 billion people. One imagines that animals — both livestock and wild animals — will be suffering as [...]

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Reuters reports that WHO Director-General Margaret Chan warned that the threat of a H5N1 pandemic has not diminished and will not go away anytime soon.

The world is years away from stamping out bird flu in poultry, and the threat of a human pandemic will remain until it does, the head of the World Health Organization [...]

Former Vice President Al Gore’s film about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, has been nominated for an Academy Award in both the Original Song and Best Documentary Feature categories. The Associated Press notes that director David Guggenheim is technically the nominee but also says that Al Gore is thrilled the film has received the nominations. [...]

The Times Online reports that a mass study of 200,000 cell phones users will look at the possibility of a long-term cancer risk from cell phone use.

More than 200,000 volunteers, including long-term users, are to be monitored for at least five years to plot mobile phone use against any serious diseases they develop, including cancer [...]

It sounds like the plot for a cheesy horror movie. The BBC reports that Australian wildlife officials are warning that tens of thousands of deadly snakes are moving into urban areas of Australia. The reason for the movement is that severe drought has the snakes headed to residential areas in a desperate attempt to [...]

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In late October, 2006, Sen. John Kerry put himself in hot water with a joke that implied U.S. troops were, shall we say, less than “A” students. Republicans convulsed in an uproar, claiming that the troops are not only smart enough to win the war in Iraq, but their Commander In Chief is also so [...]

The search for baiji, a rare white dolphin that lives in the Yangtze River has ended in sad failure MSNBC.com reports.

An expedition searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended Wednesday without a single sighting and with the team’s leader saying one of the world’s oldest species was effectively extinct.

The white dolphin known as baiji, [...]