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Anxiety has a tendency to take over our thoughts when we most need to be focusing on other things. Whether it's giving a patient or their family our full attention, performing our tasks or enjoying time with family and friends, worry and stress has a way of making life so much more difficult than it needs to be. [ + ]

Preventing weight gain in pregnancy While the practice of ‘eating for two’ during pregnancy may have been dismissed as an old wives’ tale, the maintenance of a healthy weight through diet and exercise has remained a constant in antenatal care. [ + ]

This week we have some interesting health research events in Sydney and Brisbane. SYDNEY Wed 10 Jun – Inspiring Science: Powerful Plants. Two talks from two very different researchers. How does broccoli help prevent cancer? And why do mangroves, seagrasses and salt marshes create vastly more carbon than land-dwelling forests? Dr Astha Singh explores the amazing anti-cancerous and antimicrobial properties of brassica plants such as broccoli. PhD candidate Jeffrey Kelleway discusses the potential for Australia’s vast coastal wetlands to be part of future climate change solutions. Where: Ultimo Community Centre, 40 William Henry Street Corner Harris Street Ultimo 2007 When: 18:00 – 19:00 AEST Contact: For more information please call 02 9265 9333. [ + ]

Queensland Emergency Department staff in public hospitals will be receiving patient suicide prevention training as part of a new tailored package rolling out over the next 12 months. It will provide welcomed improvements on the current training which requires full or half-day attendance and is generally targeted at mental health professionals. [ + ]

GPs providing older patients with palliative care now have access to specialist medical advice for in-home and residential care settings thanks to an app designed by Flinders University's Palliative Care Program. [ + ]

Winners of the 2015 Awards were announced at a gala ceremony held at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre on 15 May hosted by the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA) as part of the APNA National Conference Brave to Bold. [ + ]

You may have seen the news about the Bionic Lens offering wearers better than 20/20 vision without risk of deterioration or interference from cataracts over time. You won’t even have to bother with refilling contacts prescriptions or even leaving them in overnight - these non-degradable contact lenses are permanent and you won’t even feel them. [ + ]

French company Dassualt Systemes has announced the upcoming commercial release of the world-first 3D simulated “living heart” model which will assist researchers and medical professionals in testing a variety of diagnostics and therapeutic treatments on the human heart in a completely safe environment. [ + ]

Widespread microbial resistance – where antibiotics are no longer able to kill bacteria – is increasingly seen as an apocalyptic threat. Routine surgical procedures could become perilous and minor problems like urinary tract infections could kill.Research warns such a situation could potentially cast us back to a Victorian-style era of medicine in which tens of millions of people die annually and the global economy loses US$100 trillion (£63 trillion) in output. [ + ]

An even greater motivation for women looking to conceive and already pregnant to consume a healthy diet for has been established: the link to asthma severity during pregnancy. [ + ]

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The Norfolk Island Government has granted Australian medicinal cannabis company AusCann a license to grow and export the crop with harvests beginning in May 2016. [ + ]

Medicines Australia, the pharmaceutical industry representative body primarily responsible for the drugs listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) has announced two key appointments today, both of whom hail from an Abbott government background. [ + ]