Medicinal cannabis: Growing Australia's next big export and other top stories.

• Medicinal cannabis: Growing Australia's next big export

  

  KIM LANDERS: The cultivation of medicinal cannabis could soon become a vibrant new sector in Australian agriculture.Although the Federal Government is still developing a legal framework to allow its cultivation and supply, a farm in north-west New South Wales is a possible site for Australia's first cannabis crop.Lisa Herbert reports.LISA HERBERT: Nestled in the Peel Valley near Tamworth, Dan Eden is 47 hectares of fertile river-front country. And it's here that Australia's first medicinal ca..

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• Numbers of anti-vaccination parents not on the rise in Australia, study finds

  

  Numbers of anti-vaccination parents not on the rise in Australia, study finds Updated April 18, 2016 16:53:26 Rates of parents objecting to vaccinations for their kids have remained largely unchanged in Australia since 2001, new research has found. Key points: Study looked at Australian data from 2002 to 2013Objectors geographically clustered in south-east Queensland and northern New South WalesFive per cent of those studied only partially vaccinated and in the lowest ..

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• 'Alarming' fear level over Parkinson's

  

  'Alarming' fear level over Parkinson'sAlmost two-fifths of people in the UK with Parkinson's disease have felt the need to hide their symptoms or lie about having the condition, a survey has shown.The findings, from the charity Parkinson's UK, are said to reveal an "alarming" level of fear surrounding the disorder.A total of 127,000 people in the UK live with Parkinson's, a progressive brain disease that causes uncontrollable tremors, slow movement, and impaired speech.Parkinson's UK estimates t..

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• Veterans assemble dog run at PTSD clinic

  

  BATAVIA — Tearing down brush and hammering in posts, veterans created a respite for those with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and their service dogs.With a 20-foot by 75-foot chain-link dog run installed Saturday, a service dog at the Jack H. Wisby Jr. PTSD Treatment Building has a safe place to go “off-vest,” and more veterans will have an easier time incorporating an animal in their recovery at this safe place.“The dogs can relax, but this improves the quality of life for veterans,” ..

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• How To Lose Weight And Keep It Lost For Good

  

  So you’ve lost the weight and are extremely chuffed. Your life goes back to normal, people can once again approach you without fear of disembowelment, the sun seems brighter, birds twitter happily, and life is just peachy. It’s been a long [insert time period here] of exercise and self denial, but it was worth it. You’ve reached your target weight and all your clothes fit perfectly. A week or two later you weigh yourself only to find that the laboriously shed pounds seem to be sneaking up like ..

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