Stepping out

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Rockhampton, Queensland, will participate in a two-year, $800,000 study to determine if walking 10,000 steps each day (equivalent to about 1 hour and forty minutes of walking, or 8 km) can provide health benefits. Subjects will wear pedometers to measure their walking activity, which can be as little as 500 steps/day in some sedentary persons. Maria Fiatarone Singh of the University of Sydney claims that ageing is an exercise deficiency syndrome, and Wendy Brown of the University of Queensland says that physical inactivity is responsible for about the same burden of illness as smoking.

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Ant misbehavin'

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Simon Brown, a 36-year-old emergency medicine specialist, performed immunotherapy that was proven effective in desensitizing patients to the venom of jack jumper ants. Brown suggests that immunotherapy would be useful to people throughout south-eastern Australia where the ants are prevalent.

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Healing hand-helds

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Personal digital assitants can provide a valuable assist for physicians, providing data on dosage and usage of drugs. Article also discusses a new study on the role of Vitamin D in preventing type 1 juvenile diabetes and the ethical implications of commercial sponsorhip of clinical trials.

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