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Majority of Australians welcome a COVID-19 vaccine passport
Last Updated: 10-05-2021
A new poll has found an overwhelming majority of Australians would welcome a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for work, travel and study. Almost three-quarters of Australians would back a COVID-19 vaccine passport, a new poll shows, as health officials we Read More...
Australia's border will stay close until 2022
Last Updated: 10-05-2021
Australia's economic recovery hinges on COVID suppression but the opposition is warning of what a sluggish vaccination rollout means for future freedom. Australia's border will stay shut until 2022 as the federal government targets COVID s Read More...
Long wait for a five-star model in aged care
Last Updated: 10-05-2021
Doctors and nurses call on the Government to implement minimum staff time recommended by the Royal Commission urgently and expedite a five-star model of care, including 24-hour registered nurse (RN) staffing in aged care. The Royal Commission&rsqu Read More...
Victoria will finally have a single QR code check-in
Date of Posting: 07-05-2021
Victoria will further ease COVID-19 restrictions for businesses and venues on May 28 as the state finally moves to a single QR code check-in service. Five Victorians are isolating after being identified as exposure site contacts in the NSW COVID-1 Read More...
New Zealand paused flights from Sydney
Last Updated: 07-05-2021
New Zealand has paused flights from Australia's biggest city after learning of two community cases of COVID-19. New Zealand has quarantined a traveller who visited Sydney exposure sites from a recent COVID-19 community case.[subscribe] A pe Read More...
APA calls for funding to prevent third and fourth degree pereneal tears
Date of Posting: 07-05-2021
More education is required during the antenatal care process around options to reduce third and fourth degree perineal tears, according to the APA, who says not enough women are offered pelvic floor assessments with a physiotherapist during pregnancy Read More...
COVID-19 restrictions is back for three days in Greater Sydney
Last Updated: 06-05-2021
COVID-19 restrictions have been reimposed for three days in Greater Sydney with the return of compulsory masks and visitors in homes limited to 20. A swathe of COVID-19 restrictions have been reimposed across the Greater Sydney area as health auth Read More...
PM Scott Morrison says India flights on track to resume May 15
Last Updated: 06-05-2021
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the situation is on track to lift the Indian travel ban on May 15 with pressure easing on the quarantine system. Australia has indicated it is on track to restart repatriation flights from India where thousands o Read More...
Pilot dementia program helping residents and carers alike
Date of Posting: 06-05-2021
With rising rates of dementia placing immense pressure on residential aged care facilities, a new pilot program is making a big difference to the lives of both residents and staff. The researchers behind Harmony in the Bush, a study led by Flinder Read More...
A mystery COVID case pops up in east Sydney
Last Updated: 05-05-2021
A case of COVID-19 has been diagnosed in a man who lives in Sydney's eastern suburbs, with authorities yet to determine how he caught the virus. A man from Sydney's eastern suburbs has been diagnosed with COVID-19 but there's no indica Read More...
South Australia wants 80 percent vaccinated by October
Last Updated: 04-05-2021
South Australia has opened another coronavirus vaccination clinic as authorities target 80 per cent of the state's population receiving their jabs by October. South Australian authorities want 80 per cent of the state's population to be va Read More...
PM Scott Morrison is refusing to budge on India travel pause
Last Updated: 04-05-2021
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is being inundated with criticism over the government's decision to temporarily ban Australians in India from returning home. Scott Morrison is refusing to back down from the India travel ban despite a torrent of Read More...
On the front line: the impact of suicide on health professionals and first responders
Date of Posting: 04-05-2021
More research is urgently needed into the impact that attending suicide events is having on paramedics and other first responders, a researcher at the University of Otago, Wellington, says. PhD student Renan Lyra, a psychologist by training, says Read More...
Antidepressant withdrawal or relapse? Doctors can't really tell
Last Updated: 04-05-2021
Doctors need more evidence to help patients stop taking antidepressants safely and effectively, a collaborative study with The University of Queensland has found. UQ Emeritus Professor of General Practice Mieke van Driel said long-term antidepress Read More...
Upstream community-led actions reduce suicide rates by up to 17%
Last Updated: 04-05-2021
Suicide deaths leave families, friends, workplaces and communities devastated. But a new study conducted by the University of Melbourne for Wesley Mission demonstrates the effectiveness of community Networks to reduce the rate of suicide by seven per Read More...
New national standard to reduce perineal trauma at birth
Date of Posting: 03-05-2021
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has released a national Third and Fourth Degree Perineal Tears Clinical Care Standard to help reduce the risk of serious perineal trauma in childbirth. In Australia, perineal tears are Read More...
New Zealand opens to Cook Islands from May 17
Last Updated: 03-05-2021
In a fortnight's time, New Zealand will add another international destination to its quarantine-free list: the Cook Islands. New Zealand will open its borders further in a fortnight, green-lighting quarantine-free travel to and from the Cook I Read More...
Chief Medical Officer advised harsh India ban
Last Updated: 03-05-2021
Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly advised the federal government to use biosecurity laws with harsh penalties attached for people travelling from India. The nation's chief medical officer warned the federal government stranded Australians could Read More...
A new hope for bowel cancer patients
Date of Posting: 03-05-2021
A study has found chemotherapy drugs delivered via tiny nanoparticles direct to the diseased organs reduced both the size and number of cancerous bowel tumours. Bowel cancer survival rates could be improved if chemotherapy drugs were delivered via Read More...
"Excellent news": TGA approves drug for metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer
Date of Posting: 03-05-2021
Experts have welcomed the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s approval of XTANDI (enzalutamide), an oral once-daily therapy delivering significant benefits for patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. Associate Professor Ar Read More...
A traveller tested positive for coronavirus in Brisbane Airport
Date of Posting: 30-04-2021
A passenger from Papua New Guinea who was accidentally allowed into the green zone at Brisbane Airport for two hours has tested positive for coronavirus. A man who was accidentally ushered from the quarantine red zone into the green zone at Brisba Read More...
WA still requires face masks after emerging from a COVID-19 lockdown
Last Updated: 30-04-2021
West Australians will be required to keep wearing face masks indoors for another week after emerging from a COVID-19 lockdown. West Australians will be free to flock to the footy but must wear face masks under a further easing of coronavirus rules Read More...
What's the risk if Australia opens its international borders? An epidemiologist explains
Last Updated: 30-04-2021
Coinciding with the Trans-Tasman travel bubble starting recently, over the past week there have been murmurings Australia could soon relax its borders further, through mechanisms such as home quarantine or letting in vaccinated people. Read More...
Nurse leadership roles multiply
Last Updated: 30-04-2021
The Federal Government’s Budget record boost to healthcare spending in 2020-21 will open up more management positions in the broad healthcare sector, and nurses with postgraduate degrees will be perfectly positioned to advance into those roles. Read More...
Here are 9 ways we can make it easier for Australians to get the COVID-19 vaccine
Last Updated: 30-04-2021
Between vaccine supply issues, confusion about the role of GPs, and changed advice for AstraZeneca, the Australian COVID-19 vaccine rollout is well behind schedule. How can we make it easier for the majority of Australians who want to be vac Read More...
NSW Ambulance union calls for more paramedics
Last Updated: 29-04-2021
NSW Ambulance was forced into an emergency "status three" case load declaration on Monday, prompting the union to call for 1500 more paramedics. The union for NSW health workers has refused to rule out industrial action after the state&# Read More...
Free flu vaccination available in Melbourne and Sydney
Last Updated: 29-04-2021
Free flu vaccinations are being made available in Melbourne and Sydney as experts worry that winter might be a bad season for the virus. Free flu shots are being offered in Melbourne and Sydney as experts worry about a bad season ahead.[subscribe] Read More...
Farmers appeal for funds to end NSW mice plague
Last Updated: 29-04-2021
Farmers are appealing for government funding to help them bait to reduce out-of-control mouse numbers in large tracts of regional NSW. Farmers are begging for help to end a biblical mouse plague that has for months troubled western NSW communities Read More...
Calls to act after research shows that mental illness increases risk of post-operative complications
Date of Posting: 29-04-2021
People with serious mental illness have higher rates of post-operative complications and longer stays in hospital, according to a review by Australian researchers. Lead author Kate McBride, Director of the Institute of Academic Surgery at Royal Pr Read More...
Queensland company develops rapid COVID-19 test
Last Updated: 28-04-2021
A Queensland company has developed and launched a low-cost and high sensitivity rapid COVID-19 test to be used worldwide. A new rapid and low-cost COVID test has been developed by a Queensland company with the breakthrough expected to be used worl Read More...
9000 Australians stranded in India
Date of Posting: 28-04-2021
The home affairs minister says her heart goes out to the thousands of Australians stranded in India now that flights have been suspended until May 15. The federal government has promised to do all it can to help the thousands of Australians strand Read More...
Study shows genetics drive desire for coffee
Last Updated: 28-04-2021
A world-first study by South Australian researchers found genetic evidence that heart health influences a person's coffee intake. Drinking too many cups of coffee a day?[subscribe] You can blame your genetics for that, according to a new st Read More...
Victoria Acting Premier seeks tick for overseas students plan
Last Updated: 27-04-2021
Victorian Acting Premier James Merlino has written to the federal government seeking approval for a plan to allow international students to return to the state. Victoria's Acting Premer James Merlino has lobbed a revised proposal at the feet o Read More...
Australia is considering sending help for India
Last Updated: 27-04-2021
Australia is considering sending oxygen and other medical supplies to India, which is in the grips of a devastating coronavirus crisis. Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews says the federal government has an obligation to support the 8000 Australia Read More...
Last Updated: 26-04-2021
A range of restrictions will remain in place beyond the three-day COVID-19 lockdown across the Perth Metropolitan and Peel regions. WESTERN AUSTRALIA'S POST-LOCKDOWN RULES:[subscribe] Perth Metropolitan and Peel regions to finish a thr Read More...
Possible extension of COVID restrictions in Perth
Last Updated: 26-04-2021
Perth residents should brace for an extension of COVID-19 restrictions, with no new cases of community transmission but more possible exposure sites. Authorities are still searching for and waiting to clear more than 270 people who were close and Read More...
PACU nurses a vital aid to recovery
Last Updated: 26-04-2021
Many patients emerging from the haze of an anaesthetic will experience a welcome, if-dreamlike, return to consciousness, most likely followed by a sense of overwhelming relief. Few however are aware of the crucial role played by nurses in a Post A Read More...
5 pieces of advice on getting a job with Aspergers or Autism
Last Updated: 26-04-2021
Is it impossible to get a job with Aspergers or Autism? I am a psychologist and my area of expertise is with individuals who identify as either Autistic or Asperger’s. My goal is to identify these individuals and help them become self-accept Read More...
Last Updated: 26-04-2021
Governments are starting to lift restrictions and some are considering “immunity passports”, where all restrictions are lifted for those previously infected. But are you immune from COVID-19 if you’ve already been in Read More...
Queensland to restart Torres Strait vaccine drive
Last Updated: 23-04-2021
All Torres Strait Islands and Cape York locals will receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, except for 992 people who have already been given the AstraZeneca jab. The Queensland government will restart the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the Torres Strai Read More...
