Why widowed people see lost loves and other top stories.

• Why widowed people see lost loves

  Supernatural ... Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in a scene from the movie Ghost. Picture: SuppliedGRIEVING wives and husbands often say they feel their partner’s presence in some way.The Sun reports that a study has shown that a staggering six out of ten widowed people will see, hear or sense their lost loved one.The number of ‘hallucinatory experiences’, including seeing a dead partner sitting in a favourite chair or hearing their voice, was ‘strikingly high’, say researchers.But many will keep ..

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• Fall in teen pregnancy linked with time on social media 12th Mar 2016 9:15 AM

  

  TEEN pregnancies are at their lowest in eight years and some experts think social media could be partly responsible. Data from Statistics New Zealand has revealed the number of teenage pregnancies in New Zealand among women under 20 years old has almost halved since 2007 – the year that social media became a global phenomenon. In 2007, 4955 women under 20 fell pregnant. But last year there were just 2865 births to under 20-year-olds and a large majority of those were to 18- and 19-year-olds. ..

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• Reach out and offer support

  

  The OZHelp foundation and the HIA have been working together to promote the support services that are on offer for people working in the building industry in and around Canberra and the region. Photo: Paul Rovere Suicide in Australia is becoming a real issue. With suicide deaths doubling the nation's road toll, there needs to be more done to curb these alarming figures.Recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) highlight the need for contin..

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• Amputations due to diabetes up 25 per cent in two years

  

  Diabetes sufferer Julian Robinson has lost one leg to the disease and is battling to save his other. Photo: Chris Crerar The incidence of diabetes is growing at 7 per cent to 10 per cent a year and has resulted in an increase in amputations of 25 per cent in two years, according to Diabetes NSW."We talk about this issue as the [medical] tsunami of the modern age," says Sturt Eastwood, the chief executive of the organisation.Type 2 diabetes - which can be de..

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• Donor-conceived children in NSW to have fewer rights than Victorian peers

  

  Video will begin in 5 seconds. Donor child told 'be grateful you're alive' When Geraldine Hewitt was searching for information about her biological father a doctor told her to 'shut up' and be grateful she was even alive. PT1M41S 620 349 At the age of 12, in a room full of doctors, Geraldine Hewitt dared to ask where she came from.She was told to "shut up, and be grateful you are alive".The child of an anonymous sperm donor, whose records were deliberately destroyed by the cli..

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