Tasmanian Times
Health
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The Chemical Danger: My advice
Dr Alison Bleaney I would stongly advise all water users of the Macquarie river and environs – includes Brumby Creek – to...
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I wouldn’t have saved the Mersey …
Andrew Darby The Age THE Prime Minister leaned on a counter at Tasmania’s north-west regional hospital at Burnie and asked a man...
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Dioxin, paper mills, the impact
Dr Alison Bleaney This story specifically mentions the relationship between dioxin and paper mills in Canada. That parents exposed to dioxin at...
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Where is the research?
Dr Alison Bleaney Recent article re Canada’s cost to health services from adverse environmental exposures (see below). Where is Australia’s research and...
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The chemical dangers
Dr Alison Bleaney St Helens This article below sums up the issues relating to environmental oestrogens[EE] and other endocrine disrupting chemicals and...
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Highest rate of poverty in Australia
Mark Worley To mark the start of Anti-Poverty Week, TasCOSS chief executive Tom Muller yesterday released a damning report showing Tasmania has...
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EI: Time to vaccinate Tasmanian horses
David Obendorf TASMANIAN authorities should consider requesting that local horses are vaccinated against Equine Influenza in line with the approach taken in...
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Giddings: she’s not serious
Dr Michael Aizen MR: Health Minister Falls Down on the Job THE decision of the Health Minister to renege on her promise...
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The unhealthy state
Mike Bolan Most relevant and moving were the various doctors and nurses who spoke, both from the rostrum and from the crowd....
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Pulpmill deathwatch
pulpmilldeathwatch MR The death and destruction tracking website www.pulpmilldeathwatch.com has now been launched. It exists to remind people (mostly politicians) of the...
