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Sydney: Physical activity can improve the life of breast cancer survivors, besides helping them cope with diagnosis and recovery after treatment. Sheree Harrison from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) School of Public health interviewed almost 300 breast cancer survivors over a year and recorded how much physical activity they engaged in, as well as how they saw their quality of life. "The main finding was that women under 50 who were recovering from breast cancer and were consistently physically active were more likely to report better emotional well-being and have a higher overall quality of life than those who were less active or sedentary," Harrison said. "Young women are more likely to have difficulties adjusting to the disease after being diagnosed, and this was really helped by being physically active. It also reduced physical side affects like pain and fatigue. "One interesting thing was that it did not make a difference whether the physical activity...

Sydney: Labelling children as those with learning and behavioural difficulties can be detrimental to them and their teachers as well, says a new study. Linda Graham of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) found that children labelled as having "ADHD-like" (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) symptoms, for example, were at a disadvantage when it came how people perceived them. "I have been looking at the things we say and how that affects what we do, and I have looked at the files of students who were referred to special schools for behaviour," she said. Her interest was in the pervasive nature of the discourses around ADHD. "ADHD went from something which was relatively obscure in the early 1990s, which most people didn't know about unless they had a child with it, to all of a sudden becoming something everyone knows about," she said. "It is especially problematic when children can end up with an 'informal' diagnosis which becom...