Health care in regional Australia, particularly in southern NSW and regional Victoria, will receive a boost with the announcement to extend the teaching of Charles Sturt University's nursing degree to its Albury-Wodonga Campus.

The impact of the GST has forced Australia's million-dollar-a-year traditional medicine industry swiftly towards regulation, as the NSW Hunter Region's biggest herbal medicine college opens up entry to university for its students.

Plans to extend health courses at Charles Sturt University will see the addition of new courses in nutrition and dietetics this year and the introduction of a new course in podiatry being planned for the Health Faculty.

Weather conditions in Sunday's Olympic men's marathon will have as much to do with who crosses the finish line first, as the level and intensity of the competitors' training programs, according results of a recent study.

Society must change its view of ageing, particularly as its population becomes older, according to the editors of a new book on ageing in Australia.

Working as a Sydney 2000 Olympics volunteer will give School of Clinical Sciences associate lecturer Luke Barclay the chance to see a side of elite international competitors that very few will ever see - their insides.

Charles Sturt University students will see the glory and the pain of Sydney 2000 Olympics Games first hand when they join the vast army of volunteers at the event.

Millennial Reflections, on Wednesday 6 to Friday 8 September 2000 at Charles Sturt University's School of Community Health.

For the first time in Australia statistics have been compiled in a study revealing the extent of violence against nurses in emergency wards.