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Viagra is being sold illegally under the counter by adult book shops in Adelaide, says the Advertiser. (link)

Mentally ill people who have been scheduled to be detained are being denied their right to appeal, says the Advertiser. (link)

A prominent Wollongong ENT surgeon, Dr Arthur Gifford Bosanquet has pleaded guilty to tricking a 16 year old male into attempting an indecent act, says the Illawarra Mercury. (link)

Public health workers in Adelaide are dishing out Tamiflu as a virulent strain of influenza that has already killed two elderly men spreads to a second nursing home, says the Advertiser. (link)

According to the ABC, Western Australia's Health Minister, Kim Hames says reducing the number of consultants in the Health Department would be one way of meeting the government's three per cent efficiency dividend.(link)

The AMA in Queensland has called for cigarette-like restrictions on energy drinks after one mother found her 14-year old son was consuming up 13 bottles of caffeinated drinks a day, says the Albert and Logan News. (link)

A new US study found that women have a greater variety of bacteria on their hands than men do, the Age reports. (link)

A three-year-old boy was locked out of Beaudesert Hospital and his family turned away despite their fears the toddler had been sexually assaulted, says the Courier Mail. (link)

The Courier Mail reports the Queensland Government is purchasing super-sized ambulances with hydraulic lifts to cope with an increasing number of obese patients. (link)

Surrogate baby Emily Martin was conceived using the egg and sperm of her intended parents, David and Denise Norman, yet neither appear on her birth certificate and she could not take their surname, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. (link)

The Sydney Morning Herald reports on an Australian PhD student who has uncovered an important clue to the mystery of how insulin works, bringing scientists closer to a cure for diabetes. (link)

The bacterium, Deinococcus radiodurans is said to have super-abilities include unbelievable resistance to radioactivity; immunity from heat, cold and acid; and the ability to survive in outer space according to the Sydney Morning Herald.(link)