Wishful thinking and guesswork are behind the daft 2am lockout policy.
PREMIER John Brumby probably wasn’t expecting a backlash this big.
Nearly 30,000 distressed drinkers have signed just one of the many Facebook petitions opposing the 2am lockout — the Victorian Government’s new policy that will ban entry to bars, pubs and clubs in the inner city [...]

Thousands of teens reveal their perceptions, experience in scientific survey
Perception does not equal reality with teen drivers according to a study released today by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and State Farm Insurance(R) in the journal Pediatrics. Using the National Young Driver Survey, researchers studied more than 5,000 9th through 11th graders from across [...]

A student at Wunsche High School in Spring, Texas, has been stabbed by the father of another student in the lobby of the school. The father had come to the school to report that his daughter had been sexually assaulted over the weekend at a party. Another student, who the father believed had been present [...]

Several studies published in the journal Archives of Pediatrics %26amp; Adolescent Medicine add heft to the notion that getting enough sleep has wide-ranging health benefits.
Previous studies have shown that older children and adults who get too little sleep are more likely to weigh too much. Researchers led by Dr. Elsie Taveras of Harvard Medical School [...]

Men with diabetes who ate any eggs at all raised their risk of death during a 20-year period studied, according to the study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The study adds to an ever-growing body of evidence, much of it contradictory, about how safe eggs are to eat. It did not examine what [...]

Dr Fergus Bruce Aitcheson faces charges of professional misconduct at a New Zealand Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal. He wants to continue as a general practitioner.
The tribunal heard in undisputed evidence from senior hospital staff that in 2005 Dr Aitcheson, then a physician at Gisborne Hospital, prescribed the pain relief drug pethidine for clinical procedures when [...]

Among 35 children 10 to 14 years old, those whose mothers had used cocaine, drank alcohol, or smoked tobacco or marijuana while they were pregnant tended to have a smaller head circumference than their peers who werent exposed to these substances prenatally.
The differences seen with use of a single substance were not statistically significant, but [...]

While he did not deny the hospital had problems with recruitment, Mr Cairns said publicity of that fact did not help the situation.
%26quot;The constant attack and denigration of the staff at this hospital by the articles that are constantly appearing in The Southland Times is one of the biggest detriments to us in that.
%26quot;And you [...]

I havejust spent five weeks working and experiencing life in China, with fellow dairy farmer Peter Ferguson. While it was good to return on Easter Monday to good, green Southland grass, there was a lot about China and the Chinese that impressed us.
Our first stop was on the outskirts of Tianjin, Chinas fourth largest city [...]

A total of 18 children were treated by ambulance crews at the scene following the incident at Merrylands High School, in Sydneys west, about 9.45am (AEST) today.
An Ambulance Service of NSW spokesman said one student was later admitted to Westmead Childrens Hospital for treatment of a minor facial injury.
A teacher was also taken to Westmead [...]