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Australians with diabetes are being asked to check their insulin pumps after errors were detected in one model's software.
Errors affecting battery life and insulin delivery have been detected in the t:slim X2 insulin pumps from Australasian Medical and Scientific (AMSL), the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) said in a product defect correction.
Anyone who uses this insulin pump with software versions 6.4.1 or earlier has been urged to get in contact as soon as possible by emailing di******@******om.au or calling 1300 851 056 to arrange an update of the pump's software.
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The company said insulin pumps running on software versions above 6.4.1 are not affected.
Those using the pumps can check which version of the software they have by selecting: Options → My Pump → Pump Info on the home screen.
Users should then scroll through the pump Info screen using the up/down arrows and find the software version number.
"You can continue using your t:slim X2 pump as described in the device user guide, but you should have an alternative means of insulin therapy available in case the problem cannot be immediately resolved," the TGA said.
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"If unsure about which alternative insulin therapy is right for you or the amount of insulin to inject, contact your doctor or diabetes care specialist."
The TGA said if insulin delivery is stopped, this could result in hyperglycaemia.
"In severe cases of hyperglycaemia, the user may experience diabetic ketoacidosis and may require hospitalisation or intervention from a medical professional," the department said.
"The sponsor has received several complaints and adverse event notifications linked to these three problems since 2018."
Visit the TGA website for full details about the product defect correction.
Hundreds of lives could be saved if more was done right now to limit the spread of COVID-19, a Victorian parliamentary inquiry has been told.
Today the committee heard from epidemiologist Margaret Hellard from the Burnet Institute, who warned Australia was likely to surpass 10,000 COVID-19-related deaths this year.
"That's my view and that's way too high," she said.
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"That is far higher, people need to understand, than the standard deaths we would have had related to flu, in any bad year."
Since Monday, there have been 55 deaths reported in Victoria.
Infectious diseases specialists such as Epidemiologist Nancy Baxter told the inquiry that political expediency is trumping public health.
"Nobody at the top wants to be seen in a mask," she said.
"They want the pandemic to be over.
"At least having an honest conversation that we may need to bring something like masks back, would at least prepare people, so if we do have to, it's not some shock for them."
Hellard said Australia could avoid thousands of COVID-19 infections if the public took measures to reduce the spread of the virus.
"It's not just an all-or-nothing approach, I don't think our control is as good as it could be," she said.
"This notion that, 'oh, they would get sick and die anyway', that's not the case.
"We're coming into waves, you can do simple combinations of things that can reduce transmission and save lives."
Children who are smacked repeatedly by their parents are nearly twice as likely to develop anxiety and depression later in life, a new study has revealed.
The study from the Australian Catholic University also revealed six in ten children have been smacked repeatedly by their parents.
Lead researcher Professor Daryl Higgins said the finds were concerning.
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"Corporal punishment (smacking) has negative effects on mental health and part of the reason is because corporal punishment tends to go alongside experiences of child abuse and neglect," he said.
Higgins said they found 61 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds experienced corporal punishment as children four or more times.
"61 per cent of young people is a very large proportion," he said.
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The study also took into account other harmful behaviours in the home, including abuse.
"It's really important to take into account the broader environment that children grow up in," Higgins said.
The study also found girls who had experienced corporal punishment at least four times were 1.8 times more likely to have a major depressive disorder later in their lifetime, and 2.1 times as likely to experience anxiety.
"If you want to reduce population-level anxiety for women and men, don't hit them as children," Higgins said.
"There is a very real connection between corporal punishment and current and lifelong experience of mental ill-health."
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Sydney's criminal underbelly has been drawn into Chris Dawson's murder trial as a former Newtown Jets player claimed he was once asked to help "get rid of" Lynette Dawson.
Today's witness was Robert Silkman, a convicted criminal who has mixed with Sydney's underworld including former football teammate and drug trafficker Paul Hayward and Hayward's brother-in-law, gangster and murderer Neddy Smith.
In October 1975, the Newtown Jets – the football team Chris and Paul Dawson played for – travelled to the Gold Coast for an end-of-season trip where they watched the Thrilla in Manila boxing bout between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
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On the plane ride home to Sydney, Silkman claimed to have received a bizarre request from Dawson.
"Sitting there and Chris had come along and kneeled down and asked me did I know anyone that could get rid of his wife," Silkman told the court.
"I was taken aback.
"I said, 'What do you mean?' I said, 'For good?' And he said, 'Yeah'. I said, 'Look, I'll talk to you when I get back to Sydney' and that was the end of the conversation."
Silkman said he turned to another friend in shock and said: "You wouldn't believe what Chris just said to me.
"And he said, 'What?' And I was laughing and said, 'Oh, he wanted to know if I could use someone to get rid of his wife.'
"I think Ray's reaction was 'what' and I said 'Yeah, he's f—— mad.'"
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Lynette vanished just over six years later but the hitman allegation wasn't passed on to police until 2018 after the Teacher's Pet podcast had gone global and weeks before Dawson was charged with murder.
Silkman was grilled about his criminal record, including theft and burning down a friend's business.
At one point he refused to answer questions until he was granted immunity and after that happened, he admitted to giving false evidence in the past to avoid going to jail.
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He denied he was after the $200,000 reward for information that would solve Lynette's disappearance.
Silkman told the judge if he ever were to receive the money, he'd donate it to fight violence against women.
The trial continues.
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