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Happy feet - foot care for nurses and midwives
Last Updated: 06-02-2020
There aren’t many professions more taxing on the feet than that of a nurse or midwife. Long shifts, concrete floors and the demands of the job can take a significant toll, but you can remedy the abuse with a little self-care according to podiat Read More...
One in 15 hospitalisations in Australia could have been avoided with better early health care
Date of Posting: 06-02-2020
New figures show, one in 15 hospitalisations in Australia could have been avoided with better preventative health care. An Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report released on Thursday showed lung disease commonly caused by smoking Read More...
Young African migrants at mental health risk
Date of Posting: 06-02-2020
New research has found teenage and young African migrants have a 10 times higher risk of developing a psychotic disorder. Young immigrants from Africa are 10 times more likely to develop psychosis than Australian-born youth.[subscribe] Citing f Read More...
Unions and law firms call grow for national silicosis response
Date of Posting: 06-02-2020
Unions and law firms are calling for national assistance and guidelines for workers who are in danger of contracting a deadly lung disease. Ben Harrison and Daniel Lewis are in their 30s and cannot play with their children for more than 10 minutes Read More...
Australia now has 13 confirmed case of the deadly coronavirus
Date of Posting: 05-02-2020
An eight-year-old boy travelling in Australia has the coronavirus, taking the infection rate to 13 people, as the government gets ready for more evacuees. Australia now has 13 confirmed case of the deadly coronavirus after an eight-year-old boy wa Read More...
New study shows methamphetamines are fuelling violence against Melbourne hospital staff
Date of Posting: 05-02-2020
Patients abusing staff at Royal Melbourne Hospital's emergency department are often fuelled by methamphetamines, or ice, according to a new study. Methamphetamines are fuelling violence against Melbourne hospital staff more than any other drug Read More...
Last Updated: 04-02-2020
With footballers and athletes starting to lose their edge in their early 30s, there seems to be plenty of evidence that our fitness slumps with age. For ordinary gym-goers, intense exercise starts getting harder in your 40s as your maximum heart r Read More...
'Science saved my life': one doctor's incredible journey from cancer researcher to cancer survivor
Date of Posting: 04-02-2020
Cancer researcher Orazio Vittorio was completing his PhD when a tumour started to grow in his kidney. After an accidental diagnosis at university, an emergency surgery by his supervisor saved his life. Dr Orazio Vittorio never expected to be a pat Read More...
How does mental health affect your sleep?
Last Updated: 04-02-2020
The term mental health describes emotional, cognitive, and social well-being. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Mental health affects not just how we feel, but how we think and behave Read More...
Scientists are one step closer to Hendra virus cure
Date of Posting: 04-02-2020
Scientists have successfully conducted a human trial of a treatment for the deadly Hendra virus. Scientists are one step closer to protecting people from the deadly Hendra and Nipah viruses after successfully trialling a treatment on humans.[subsc Read More...
Kids diagnosed with ADHD often don't take medication regularly
Date of Posting: 04-02-2020
Children diagnosed with ADHD inconsistently take their prescribed medication, going without treatment 40 per cent of the time, a new study has found. The research, led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and published in Arch Read More...
Researchers says harsh alarms is linked to morning grogginess
Date of Posting: 04-02-2020
Researchers have found the blare of the morning alarm clock may be doing more harm than good with the harsh sound linked to morning grogginess. Feel like you're always getting up on the wrong side of the bed? You should have woken up to The Be Read More...
HOW-R-U? project targets post-discharge isolation
Date of Posting: 04-02-2020
Bolton Clarke Research Institute (BCRI) will work with Melbourne’s Northern Hospital and volunteer organisation Friends for Good to roll out a peer support program aimed at reducing social isolation and loneliness for older people discharged fr Read More...
New program to ensure nurses and midwives are at the forefront of digital health
Date of Posting: 04-02-2020
A new professional development program has been launched to identify the necessary digital health capabilities for nurses and midwives to further improve the quality, safety and efficiency of care that they deliver. The 2020 focus on nursing and m Read More...
Australians evacuated from Wuhan have landed in Australia
Date of Posting: 04-02-2020
Australians evacuated from epicentre of the coronavirus in China have landed in Western Australia before being quarantined on Christmas Island for 14 days. Australian citizens evacuated from Chinese city Wuhan, the epicentre of the deadly coronavi Read More...
Qantas plane crew are ready for airlift
Date of Posting: 03-02-2020
The Qantas plane that will bring home hundreds of Australians stranded in the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak is now on the ground in Wuhan. The volunteer Qantas crew manning the Boeing 747 that will fly stranded Australians out of the Chine Read More...
Medical experts advised that face masks might not stop coronavirus
Date of Posting: 03-02-2020
Health experts advise that wearing medical face masks is not the most effective way to prevent coronavirus infection. As the coronavirus crisis has infected over 14,000 people globally, the use of face masks has become part of daily life in Austra Read More...
The link between antibiotics and obesity in children doesn't mean you need to avoid antibiotics
Last Updated: 31-01-2020
Australian children have one of the highest rates of antibiotic use in the world. More than half have received at least one course by their first birthday. While antibiotics are one of the miracles of modern health care, they have some drawb Read More...
Researchers believe coronavirus spreads more like flu than measles
Date of Posting: 31-01-2020
Doctors believe coronavirus is spread through droplets and close contact over a period of time with an infected person, and is not as infectious as measles. Doctors trying to determine how the coronavirus is spreading say it's not as infectiou Read More...
The government is preparing the island for virus evacuees
Date of Posting: 31-01-2020
Medics are being mobilised to fly to Christmas Island under the government's plan to get Aussies out of China and protect the mainland from the coronavirus. A team of 24 medical professionals are bound for Christmas Island to deal with Austral Read More...
Dentists rebuild smiles of women experiencing domestic violence
Date of Posting: 30-01-2020
With around one in six women experiencing domestic violence at the hands of a partner according to figures from the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Personal Safety Survey released on Tuesday, the Australian Dental Health Foundation Read More...
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...
