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Most women undergoing IVF are using add-on therapies for which there is no proof they will work, and researchers have warned couples the money would be better spent on more cycles of IVF.
National research to be published in the journal,
Human Reproduction, on Tuesday found 82 per cent of women had used one or more add-ons with IVF in the past four years.
Most add-ons (72 per cent) cost extra, some up to $700 per cycle.
Pharmacist Diane Kwok with sons Isaac, three, and Tobias, one.
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Monash University researcher Dr Karin Hammarberg said given there was no evidence to show any add-ons worked, nor that they were free of harm, it was difficult to justify them.
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The training helps police identify behaviours indicative of mental illness, and provides them with tools and crisis intervention techniques to manage them, as well as understanding of the current Mental Health Act.
âHowever, high profile cases, such as police fatal shootings of mentally ill individuals, tend to receive media attention and, thus, skew public perception that the police are not handling these cases well,â Kruger told Guardian Australia.
âSuch cases also lead to the perception of mental illness as âcriminalâ or âdangerousâ, which is rarely the case. Research has also found that, in general, police are âgatekeepersâ or a âone stop shopâ for complicated social issues, including mental health.â
Australian government demands return to face-to-face university classes
Despite the worsening global COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian government has called on the country’s public universities to bring all their students back onto campus.
This demand, issued by federal Education Minister Alan Tudge last week, is part of the government’s drive to fully reopen the economy to satisfy the profit requirements of big business, regardless of recurring infection outbreaks across the continent.
“Universities should absolutely have students back on campus, within the COVID-safe rules of their relevant state or territory,” Tudge declared. “If we can have 50,000 people at a football match, surely we can have COVID-safe face-to-face learning on campus. Our universities have to focus more on giving Australian students the best possible learning experience.”
Survey aims for insight into how owners comply with administering medication and their capacity to feed PPID horses separately, as well as the costs and the side-effects of medications.