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• Higher aged care payments to boost quality, fairness 13-09-2024

  Some older Australians will now have to pay more for aged care, but the government says it will be worth it. About 1.4 million seniors will receive greater support to live independently at home before going into aged care after the federal governm

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• Government reaches deal on aged care reform 12-09-2024

  Older Australians will be given more support to stay in their own home for longer under sweeping reforms to aged care. The federal government has reached a deal with the coalition as part of a $5.6 billion package.[subscribe] Prime Minister Ant

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• Laughter may be as effective as drops for dry eyes 12-09-2024

  Laughter therapy may be just as good as drops for treating dry eyes, according to medical researchers. Repeating "Hee hee hee, hah hah hah, cheese cheese cheese, cheek cheek cheek, hah hah hah hah hah hah" a number of times a day over an

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• Child vaping sucks away chance of ciggie-free Australia 11-09-2024

  Children who use vapes face a much greater risk of progressing to cigarettes, research shows. Generation Vape, a national research project into the growing rates of e-cigarette use among young people, surveyed more than 5100 teenagers.[subscribe]

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• Australia leaks $100b from incontinence issue costs 11-09-2024

  Former Australian Diamonds netballer Kimberley Smith thought leaking during intense training sessions was normal. "I first noticed I was experiencing incontinence during particularly hard training sessions when I would leak," she said.[s

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• Promise to improve wellbeing to prevent suicide scourge 10-09-2024

  Tackling the root causes of distress, such as childhood abuse, alcohol and drug-related harm and intimate partner violence, are at the heart of an all-encompassing approach to eliminating suicide in Australia. Improving wellbeing in the community

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• Checks change aids healthy increase in overseas doctors 10-09-2024

  Australian patients are benefiting from a surge of overseas doctors plugging healthcare gaps after an end to in-person identity checks. Regulators had previously required the checks, forcing international doctors to arrive in Australia and wait on

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• Nurses, midwives hit streets to press pay-rise demands 10-09-2024

  Thousands of nurses have hit streets across NSW to demand a pay rise, defying an order to call off the strike. Nurses and midwives walked off the job on Tuesday morning for a 12-hour protest after demands for a 15 per cent wage increase were rebuf

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• 'Night owls' at higher risk of type 2 diabetes 09-09-2024

  People who are more active at night - often referred to as night owls - have a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study. Those who stay up late are more likely to smoke or have an unhealthy diet, researchers said, although t

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• 'Critical': union urges reproductive leave for all 09-09-2024

  Workers with certain health issues could be given 12 more days off part of a push to expand reproductive leave to all Australian employees. Hundreds of workers at disability service provider Scope will be the first in Australia to receive 12 days

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