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Victoria's annual fire awareness week launched today with the message that all Victorians need to understand their fire risk and be ready to act this summer.

Planning and preparing for the fire season should include reviewing and updating your home, contents and health insurance policies to ensure you are covered if and when a fire occurs.

Australians living near grassland in the outskirts of a city or town are encouraged to consider the threat of fire to be a 'not if but when' situation.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) released two reports on August 1 that shed some light on the health status of Australia's male population.

In a report titled 'The Health of Australia's Males: From Birth to Young Adulthood (0-24 years)', it was stated that a whopping 43 per cent of Australian men between the ages of 14 and 19 had been at risk of injuring themselves at some point during the year because of excessive alcohol consumption.

The Victorian government is launching two brand-new Academic Health Science Centres to help the state carry on with its world-leading medical research.

David Davis, Victoria's minister for health, today (July 23) opened the Monash Partners Academic Health Science Centre in Melbourne.

He said Melbourne is respected around the globe for its medical research, and is regarded as a front-runner in the areas of science and innovation.

About one-third of Australia's medical and research companies are located in Melbourne.

It was announced over the weekend that Melbourne will host the 2014 Australian Transplant Games.

Designed as a way for transplant recipients of all ages, donor families, living donors and the doctors and nurses who helped them to celebrate "the life-giving gift of organ transplantation", the Transplant Games have been going for 26 years.

Fittingly, 2014 will mark the 14th time they have been held.