Health Policy
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Health groups hit out at millions in flagged cuts AAP - 16-04-2023
Community health groups have hit out at a flagged decision to cut millions from preventative health programs in Victoria, saying it will increase pressure on hospitals and
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Regulator may put bite on weight-loss drugs sold online AAP - 29-03-2023
Websites advertising prescriptions for weight loss drugs via an online quiz could find themselves in hot water from Australia's medicine regulator. Australian-based
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Kids ingesting nicotine reason for vaping crackdown AAP - 23-03-2023
Dozens of children under the age of four ingesting nicotine has been cited by Health Minister Mark Butler as one of the reasons for a crackdown on vaping laws.
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APA calls for physiotherapists to be included in Urgent Care Clinics Nicole Madigan - 14-03-2023
The Australian Physiotherapy Association has called on the government to include physiotherapists in newly announced Medicare Urgent Care Clinics, which would see families
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Ministers agree to public hospital funding review AAP - 26-02-2023
Taking the pressure off public hospitals will be the subject of an independent review agreed by health ministers. Federal Health Minister Mark Butler met with
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Mixed reactions to proposed pharmacy prescription trial AAP - 20-02-2023
Health Minister Mark Butler has welcomed a trial allowing pharmacists to prescribe the contraceptive pill as an innovative solution to address health care constraints.
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Aussies save millions from cheaper medicines policy AAP - 19-02-2023
More than 1.6 million discounted prescriptions were filled in January after the maximum co-payment for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme was discounted. The
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National register will stop 'prolific' sperm donors AAP - 18-02-2023
A national sperm donation register would stop "prolific" sperm donors from creating more families than legally allowed, a peak fertility body says.
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Health insurer opts to delay planned rise to premium AAP - 07-02-2023
One of the country's largest health insurance providers has held off on increasing its premiums ahead of a planned annual rise later this year. NIB said
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Historic Smokefree NZ legislation passes AAP - 14-12-2022
New Zealand has banned the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2008 in a landmark attempt to eradicate smoking. The legislation, which passed late on Tuesday,
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SA govt set to pass defibrillator laws AAP - 30-11-2022
Life-saving defibrillators will be mandatory in all public buildings, including schools, libraries, sporting facilities, theatres and prisons, under nation-leading legislation
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IV 'cocktails' under regulator's spotlight AAP - 26-11-2022
Australians are at risk of wasting hundreds of dollars on intravenous infusion "cocktails" marketed with dodgy and misleading promises, the medical regulator warns.
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Migraine, ulcer treatments to be cheaper AAP - 26-09-2022
Medicines for migraines, stomach ulcers and other conditions will become cheaper next month as the Albanese government adds new treatments to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
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Call for urgent climate-health action plan AAP - 05-09-2022
Health leaders are calling for the rapid rollout of a climate-health action plan as floods and extreme heat kill Australians. Forty health and medical organisations
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Drug treatment services impacted by COVID AAP - 27-07-2022
More than 130,000 Australians were treated for alcohol and other drugs during the pandemic, marking a 22 per cent increase over six years, new data shows. People
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New SA MP takes on suicide prevention role AAP - 26-07-2022
A first-term South Australian MP has been appointed the state's new advocate for suicide prevention. Nadia Clancy will work alongside Health Minister Chris
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Ban on UK blood donors overturned AAP - 25-07-2022
Etienne Gould-Noonan was born 14 weeks early, the size of a Coke bottle. His parents, Carmen Gould and Jonathon Noonan, couldn't donate blood to their desperately
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UK review backs raising smoking age AAP - 10-06-2022
The legal age of sale for cigarettes in England should be raised by one year every year until eventually no one can buy tobacco products, a government-commissioned review
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Austria makes blood donation equal AAP - 21-05-2022
Austria is relaxing its blood donation rules, which at present stop many gay and bisexual men as well all trans people from donating, Health Minister Johannes Rauch has announced.
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Albanese promises health, Indigenous voice AAP - 16-05-2022
Labor leader Anthony Albanese has used a campaign trip to the Northern Territory to announce significant funding for Medicare and to reiterate his support for an Indigenous
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