A major risk of being hospitalised is catching a bacterial infection. Hospitals – especially areas including intensive care units and surgical wards – are teeming with bacteria, some of which are resistant to antibiotics – they are infamously known as ‘superbugs’. Superbug infections are difficult and expensive to treat, and
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Nomophobia: Australians fear being without a phone. Australians are addicted to their mobile phones and their inability to disconnect could be endangering their health, a Monash University study shows. The Australia-first study, measuring nomophobia (no mobile phone phobia) and its consequences, shows 99.2 per cent of users have some fear
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Behavioural clue may pave the way for new treatment of the rare eye disorder Visual Snow Syndrome. Sufferers of a rare vision disorder, that causes them to see the world through a veil of dots, appear to process visual stimuli faster than healthy people, leading to hyper-accelerated eye movements. Sufferers
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