By Peta Bee, published in The Times on 4th September 2018
Teens
Peak growth spurts tend to be about the age of 12½ for girls and 14 for boys.
Honey and over-the-counter medicines should be the first line of treatment for most people with coughs, new guidelines recommend.
Antibiotics should rarely be prescribed by doctors for coughs because in most cases they do little to improve symptoms, health officials say.
Most of the time a cough will improve on its own within two to three weeks.
When would you call triple-0 for an ambulance? When a fall results in a nasty fracture? Concern that labour is progressing so rapidly that you’ll give birth before you can get to hospital? Weakness from prolonged vomiting and diarrhoea?
If you take a look at some Australian ambulance websites,
It’s July 1, which means we’re a third of the way through winter, halfway through the year and one day into Dry July.
Only 30 days to go, but who’s counting?
If you’re anything like me, the prospect of giving up booze for a month is a little daunting.
In December 2017 British woman Laura Plummer was jailed for three years for bringing 300 Tramadol painkiller tablets into Egypt. While the sentence shocked many in the UK, the case shone a light on a painkiller addiction problem blighting millions of Egyptians.
“When I was 15, we were playing PlayStation in a games arcade,
Water-resistant sunscreen products work much less well after they have been worn in the sea, a consumer group has warned ahead of the summer holiday season.
Which? tested two products claiming to be water resistant and found the sun protection factor (SPF) dropped by up to 59% after 40 minutes in salt water.
If you’ve seen a specialist in the private health sector, you’ll likely know the pain of out-of-pocket or “gap” costs.
They’re the fees charged by a medical specialist, minus the Medicare rebate and — if you have private health insurance — whatever your health fund is willing to cover.
What you pay varies greatly depending on who you see,
