Farm animals could hold cure to childhood asthma, study says and other top stories.

• Farm animals could hold cure to childhood asthma, study says

  

  A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine has many scientists convinced that barnyard dust could be used to curb asthma rates. The study was conducted by observing two remote farming groups in the US, one of them Amish and the other ...

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• Nine hospitalised after salmonella outbreak at Adelaide hotel

  

  A buffet breakfast containing contaminated eggs has left nine people in hospital after a salmonella outbreak at the InterContinental in Adelaide’s CBD.SA Health has confirmed 17 people fell ill after consuming the contaminated food at the Riverside Restaurant last Sunday.InterContinental Adelaide’s General Manager Colin McCandless told 9NEWS the restaurant was liaising with SA Health and the local council. "We have an isolated incident that occurred last Sunday morning in our breakfast restaura..

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• Fewer Aussies using organ black market

  

  The number of Australians going overseas for illegal organ transplants has fallen dramatically in the past seven years as donation rates increase and waiting times decline.Professor Stephen Alexander, a pediatric kidney specialist at the Westmead Children's Hospital, says official figures show just six Australians went overseas for organ transplants in 2014, compared to 20 in 2009. The number of Australians going overseas for illegal organ transplants has fallen dramatically in the past se..

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• To floss or not to floss: NL dentist challenges naysayers

  

  A dentist in Bay Roberts says keep on flossing, even though an Associated Press (AP) report out of the United States has questioned its value. The AP news agency looked at 25 studies into brushing and flossing, and concluded the evidence for flossing is "weak" and "unreliable." The investigation was prompted by the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans, published in 2015, which no longer recommends flossing. Dr. Michelle Zwicker is a partner at the Bay Roberts Dental Health Centre and is on t..

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