According to a recent announcement by Samsung, the company's smartphone-tablet hybrid Galaxy Note - which was launched in the US and Europe a few months back - has finally hit the Australian market.

The part-phone, part-tablet Galaxy Note will be available in Australia from this week from Optus and Vodafone with a price-tag of $899 outright. While the Optus offer for the device includes $0 on its 2-year $79 cap plan; the Vodafone offer includes $5 on its 2-year $59 cap plan.

In an attempt to avoid life-threatening diseases, OZ scientists are trying to make designer babies that have the DNA of three parents.

Multi-organ failures and problems like heart problems, liver problems and muscle conditions will be eradicated by removing defective genes and replacing them with healthy DNA from a donor, IVF specialists stated.

Fraught with danger is what the procedure has been described by scientific opponents and they said that this procedure will make sure that children do not get severe genetic conditions from mothers.

If the growing population was not enough to trouble the medical services in WA's northwest, here comes another shocker which indicates that there is a glaring hike in number of sexually transmitted diseases, and among the major causes, fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) workers are mainly seen under the scanner.

Even it has been confirmed by none other than the medical representatives of the Australian Medical Association (AMA), which are of the opinion that a spike is observed in number of sexually transmitted diseases found in workers returning from South-East Asia.