This week's top health stories

Sparks fly in heated Question Time

Lateline - 18/03/2010
The last Question Time, before a seven-week break, may well come to be marked down as the moment the 2010 election campaign began.

Rudd and Abbott lock horns over health

7.30 Report - 18/03/2010
Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott locked horns in a battle royal over health and hospitals in parliament today.

Abbott and Rudd go head to head on health

PM - 18/03/2010
In Question Time, the Government's forced Tony Abbott to his feet to speak on health policy. The Government used its numbers in the House of Representatives to make the Opposition Leader speak for 15 minutes without warning and without notes.

Queensland could cut nightclub hours

The World Today - 18/03/2010
A Queensland parliamentary committee has recommended cutting trading hours in night clubs and bottleshops, reducing the use of glass and the use of ID scanning devices. Nightclub owners oppose earlier closures, but police say it's an essential move to reduce harm.

Blocking gene forces cancer cells to age

Science Online - 18/03/2010
Instead of killing off cancer cells with toxic drugs, scientists have discovered a molecular pathway that forces them to grow old and die.

Holden recalls thousands of small cars

AM - 18/03/2010
Holden is recalling 9,000 of its big selling Cruze sedans because of concerns about potential fuel leaks. Holden says it's aware of 71 cases of possible leaks linked to a defect in the car's fuel feed hose.

Heart disease more likely a killer outside the city

PM - 17/03/2010
A new report has found the more remote your home is, the more likely you are to have or die of heart disease. But the study by the Institute of Health and Welfare says these same people are less likely to go to the doctor or receive cholesterol lowering drugs than city dwellers.

Poorer women seek out manlier men

Science Online - 17/03/2010
Scottish scientists report that women living in countries with worse rates of disease and ill health are far likelier to head for masculine-looking men than feminine-looking rivals.

Commissioner calls for more Indigenous medicos

The World Today - 17/03/2010
There's a call today for more initiatives to be introduced to increase Indigenous representation in medical schools. Indigenous people make up 2.5 per cent of the population, but less than one per cent of all medical practitioners are of Indigenous descent.

Glaucoma may start in the brain

Science Online - 17/03/2010
In what may be a turning point in glaucoma research, scientists have determined that the disease, the leading cause of irreversible blindness, shows up first in the brain, not the eye.