Cancer Council Queensland said it is worried by the unhygienic habits of many of the residents of the Sunshine Coast.

A Queensland Health has discovered the fact that near about 16% of people are taking a life threatening amount of alcohol in a minimum of once a week. Many of them are getting sun burnt on regular basis. It also disclosed that only nine per cent are eating enough food and vegetables.

Nurses have called for government action over the prevailing hospital violence. Nurses brutally beaten by patients and their relatives are living under threat that they will be shot.

A campaign was launched by the Australian Nursing Federation for the Napthine Government to comply with their promises of taking out $21 million package of hospital security guards that was promised previously.

Tasmania's Health Department has said there is no link between contaminated water on the west coast and illness among some residents. Around 250 households in Rosebery are now drinking water from an alternative water supply because of unsafe levels of lead being detected last week.

A former resident said there have been concerns for years about contaminated water from the nearby mine.

An announcement came yesterday from MSD Animal Health that the Veterinary Medicines Directorate has granted the company a provisional marketing authorization for Bovilis SBV. It is the first vaccine to specifically target the Schmallenberg virus in cattle and sheep.

As per a novel lab-based study, it has been revealed that sunshine vitamin D may treat asthma. The study was carried out by a group of researchers from a number of universities like King's College London, Queen Mary, the Homerton University NHS Foundation Trust and University of London.

Leaders of 20 emergency departments have sent a letter to senior NHS managers warning about lives at risk in A&E departments. The leaders fear "toxic overcrowding" and "institutional exhaustion" will not assure safe care to patients.