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There are now 7 coronavirus case confirmed in Australia
Date of Posting: 30-01-2020
The first case of the deadly coronavirus has been confirmed in Queensland, and it joins the four cases in NSW and two in Victoria. The first case of coronavirus has been confirmed in Queensland as a 44-year-old Chinese national, bringing the natio Read More...
Christmas Island locals see sense in island quarantine plan
Date of Posting: 30-01-2020
Christmas Island residents are disappointed they weren't informed about the plan to use the detention centre for coronavirus quarantine, but say it makes sense. Using the Christmas Island immigration detention centre to quarantine Australians Read More...
Australian in the Chinese city of Wuhan fearful of his uncertain future
Date of Posting: 30-01-2020
An Australian citizen in Wuhan says his mother is terrified he may be quarantined on Christmas Island over coronavirus fears. Daniel Ou Yang is an Australian in the Chinese city of Wuhan and fearful of his uncertain future.[subscribe] The 21-ye Read More...
New strategy to stop melanoma spread
Date of Posting: 29-01-2020
Scientists from the Centenary Institute have developed a new therapeutic strategy that could potentially help the fight against advanced-stage melanoma. In a study just released, the scientists were able to show that they could effectively reduce Read More...
Australia scientists recreated the virus outside of China to develop vaccine
Date of Posting: 29-01-2020
Australian scientists have reportedly created a lab-grown version of the deadly coronavirus, becoming the first team outside of China to do so. Australian scientists have managed to replicate the coronavirus in laboratory conditions in a medical b Read More...
Australia seeks entry to virus epicentre
Date of Posting: 29-01-2020
Australian authorities are expected to head to Hubei province this week to work on a plan to evacuate about 400 people trapped in the quarantined city. Australia is still working on a plan to help hundreds of citizens stranded in China get back ho Read More...
A bold plan to help more Australians quit smoking
Date of Posting: 28-01-2020
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has today recommended allowing greater flexibility in prescribing for smoking cessation pharmacotherapy. The bold proposal, contained in the RACGP’s newly released Supporting smok Read More...
Supporting young people affected by fires
Date of Posting: 28-01-2020
The Morrison Government is ensuring the needs of young Australians affected by the tragic bushfires are recognised and supported. Minister for Youth, Richard Colbeck, has visited the bushfires zones on the New South Wales South Coast, to hear dire Read More...
29,000 cancers overdiagnosed in Australia in a single year
Last Updated: 28-01-2020
Almost one in four cancers detected in men were overdiagnosed in 2012, according to our new research, published today in the Medical Journal of Australia. In the same year, we found that approximately one in five cancers in women were overdi Read More...
A Queensland MP is disgusted by hoax virus warning
Date of Posting: 28-01-2020
A Queensland MP is disgusted by a hoax health warning advising people to avoid Brisbane suburbs with large Chinese populations due to the risk of coronavirus. Duncan Pegg has expressed disgust over the "racist" hoax, dummied up to look l Read More...
New Zealand families in Wuhan pleas for their evacuation
Date of Posting: 28-01-2020
The New Zealand government will discuss its response to the growing coronavirus outbreak at Cabinet on Tuesday. New Zealand families trapped in Wuhan during China's coronavirus outbreak have made public and emotional pleas for their evacuation Read More...
Australian health authorities fear of more coronavirus in Australia
Date of Posting: 28-01-2020
Australian health authorities are warning that the fifth person to test positive to the deadly coronavirus won't be the last and that more cases will emerge. A 21-year-old Sydney university student has become the country's fifth person to Read More...
NSW authorities are expected to confirm on Monday the country's fifth case of the deadly coronavirus
Date of Posting: 27-01-2020
NSW authorities are expected to on Monday confirm the fifth case of coronavirus in the country after a patient tested positive during preliminary exams. NSW Health on Sunday said that a patient had preliminarily tested positive to the virus and wa Read More...
Report shows that Australia out-spent on aged care
Date of Posting: 24-01-2020
In a comparison of the aged care sector in 22 countries, Australia scored poorly, compared to smaller, more home-like European facilities. Countries providing high-quality aged care easily outspend Australia and focus more on providing assistance Read More...
Grappling With Coronavirus - The Latest In Australia
Date of Posting: 24-01-2020
Authorities are working to prevent the arrival of the potentially fatal coronavirus with no Australian cases yet confirmed. A flight from the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak - Wuhan in central China - touched down in Sydney on Thursday. Pass Read More...
Scientists are developing a quicker test to diagnose the coronavirus
Date of Posting: 24-01-2020
Scientists are developing a quicker test to diagnose the deadly coronavirus, Australia's chief medical officer says. Scientists are developing a quicker test to diagnose the coronavirus, as the death toll rises and Australia boosts its border Read More...
Bupa supports the next generation of mental health and indigenous professionals
Date of Posting: 23-01-2020
Australia’s largest health insurer, Bupa, has donated $20,000 to the University of Western Australia who will offer two new scholarships that are currently open for applications from Australian students. The first scholarship is aimed at pos Read More...
Health officials is working to keep out the deadly coronavirus
Date of Posting: 23-01-2020
Australia is working to keep out the deadly coronavirus, as the Chinese city at the centre of the outbreak is forced into lock down. A crack team of health officials will carefully screen passengers arriving in Sydney as Australia fights to keep o Read More...
Biosecurity measures have been ramped up for flights arriving into Australia from China
Date of Posting: 23-01-2020
Health screenings will be ramped up at Australian airports as authorities confirm a Brisbane man tested for the deadly coronavirus does not have the infection. A Brisbane man has been cleared of the deadly coronavirus as health professionals prepa Read More...
A Melbourne man is fighting for life in Thailand after competing in a martial arts fight last year
Date of Posting: 22-01-2020
A Melbourne man has been in a coma in a Bangkok hospital for months after collapsing following a muay thai martial arts bout. Sy Leafa, 23, has been in hospital since September 9 after a muay thai bout in Bangkok's Lumpinee stadium ended with Read More...
Treatment of pain is a challenge in Alzheimer's disease
Date of Posting: 22-01-2020
The treatment and management of pain in people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) can be a challenge due to problems in communication and uncommon symptoms of pain. Opioid painkillers are widely prescribed, but not without adverse effects. Findin Read More...
Premature menopause increases risk of chronic health issues
Date of Posting: 22-01-2020
Women who experience premature menopause are significantly more likely to develop multiple chronic conditions, according to a new study by The University of Queensland. School of Public Health PhD student Dr Xiaolin Xu analysed data on more than 1 Read More...
Body's natural signal carriers can help melanoma spread
Date of Posting: 22-01-2020
A new study from Finland sheds fresh light on how melanoma cells interact with other cells via extracellular vesicles they secrete. The researchers found that extracellular vesicles secreted by melanoma cells use the so-called hedgehog signalling Read More...
Home care clients to co-design frailty interventions
Date of Posting: 22-01-2020
A Melbourne research collaboration is bringing together frail hospital and home care clients and clinicians to improve health outcomes, overcome resistance to treatment and help build resilience. The Be Your Best Program - a collaboration between Read More...
Physiotherapy part of the recovery for Samoa's measles patients
Date of Posting: 22-01-2020
How were your holidays? Ask Wintec physiotherapy tutor Oka Sanerivi this question and he’ll tell you he went to Samoa, to help fight the measles epidemic. Oka worked in the Intensive Care Unit at Apia's main hospital Tupua Tamasese Meaol Read More...
NSW health authority to monitor travellers to China
Date of Posting: 22-01-2020
NSW Health will help federal biosecurity staff at Sydney Airport to monitor travellers returning from China after an outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus. NSW's health authority will help federal biosecurity staff at Sydney Airport to monit Read More...
Date of Posting: 21-01-2020
The risk posed to Australians by a new strain of coronavirus is low, but health authorities say there is a need to be vigilant. CORONAVIRUS ORIGINS AND SPREAD:[subscribe] * The World Health Organisation began responding to cases of unexpla Read More...
New research reveals the poor health of the poor
Date of Posting: 21-01-2020
New data has revealed that the poor and the most disadvantaged in Australia have increasingly worse health outcomes. The gap in the quality of health between the disadvantaged in Australia and those more affluent is continuing to widen, new resear Read More...
Australian researchers have pinpointed more than 100 genes linked to risk of glaucoma
Date of Posting: 21-01-2020
Australian scientists have identified 107 genes that increase the risk of someone developing glaucoma. Australian researchers have pinpointed more than 100 genes they say will increase a person's chances of developing glaucoma.[subscribe] G Read More...
Australian College of Mental Health Nurses welcomes bushfire funding
Date of Posting: 20-01-2020
As the nation faces one of its biggest ever crises following the catastrophic bushfires, thousands of Australians will grapple with the mental health consequences that result from the devastating loss of property and lives. The Federal Government Read More...
Almost one in five stonemasons in Queensland have a potentially deadly lung disease
Last Updated: 20-01-2020
Screenings of more than 1000 stonemasons in Queensland has revealed almost 20 per cent of the workforce have the potentially fatal lung disease silicosis. Health screenings of more than 1000 stonemasons by WorkCover Queensland found 160 have silic Read More...
4 1/2 myths about sunscreen and why they're wrong
Last Updated: 17-01-2020
Many Australians are reluctant to use sunscreen, even though it’s an important element in preventing the skin cancers that affect about two in three of us at some time in our lives. The Cancer Council says myths about sunscreens contri Read More...
Making space: how designing hospitals for Indigenous people might benefit everyone
Last Updated: 17-01-2020
Last year, New South Wales health minister Brad Hazzard proposed segregated Indigenous waiting areas in the emergency departments of the state’s public hospitals. The novel policy suggested a link between Indigenous participation in he Read More...
Report shows sepsis death toll doubles estimate
Date of Posting: 17-01-2020
A new report shows the number of deaths from sepsis almost doubles previous estimates, with a senior health expert calling for better healthcare standards. The number of cases and deaths from sepsis in Australia is vastly underestimated with an ed Read More...
Virtual reality may be the next frontier in remote mental health care
Date of Posting: 16-01-2020
In recent years, experts have focused on finding better ways to improve remotely delivered mental health care. Now, virtual reality (VR) may pave the way for myriad new opportunities. Using VR for remote therapy involves conduct Read More...
New tool to help beat the health hazards of smoke haze
Date of Posting: 16-01-2020
With major cities across Australia choking on thick clouds of hazardous smoke, an expert from The Australian National University (ANU) has released freely accessible new factsheets on how to best protect yourself from bushfire smoke. The factsheet Read More...
Online support for trauma survivors
Date of Posting: 15-01-2020
Flinders University psychology is running an online stepped-care therapy trial to help people who have experienced violence or traumatic events. With bushfire and drought sweeping Australia, the online and phone program is targeting people a Read More...
Car accidents, drownings, violence: hotter temperatures will mean more deaths from injury
Last Updated: 14-01-2020
What we suspected is now official: 2019 was Australia’s hottest year on record. The country’s average maximum temperature last year (30.69℃) was a scorching 2.09℃ hotter than the 1961-1990 average. For the whole plane Read More...
NT minister says Darwin region has enough hospital beds
Date of Posting: 13-01-2020
The NT chief minister says the Darwin region has enough hospital beds despite the emergency department head claiming there was a shortfall over Christmas. Chief Minister Michael Gunner has defended the Northern Territory health system after one of Read More...
After the firestorm: the health implications of returning to a bushfire zone
Last Updated: 13-01-2020
Australia has a long history of bushfire disasters. The loss of almost 70 homes in Tathra, New South Wales, and 18 homes in southwest Victoria this week has again reminded us of the risks and huge personal costs of living in a fire-prone country. Read More...
