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New tool to improve diagnosis of lifelong condition
Date of Posting: 13-05-2025
New guidelines will help to reduce stigma and improve access to diagnosis and services for a lifelong disability in Australia, researchers say. Arising from prenatal exposure to alcohol, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) can cause difficultie Read More...
Why schools hold the key to a healthier Australia
Date of Posting: 12-05-2025
Health and education have traditionally been treated as separate policy areas in Australia, with one focused on treating illness and the other on academic performance. However, a growing body of research confirms what many teachers, parents and healt Read More...
How physiotherapy is supporting Australians with long COVID and post-viral fatigue
Date of Posting: 12-05-2025
The effects of COVID-19 have been felt across all areas of life, but for some Australians, the impact continues well beyond the initial illness. A growing number of people are living with long COVID, a condition that can cause fatigue, breathlessness Read More...
Weight-loss jab helps shed more kilos than rival
Date of Posting: 12-05-2025
Weight-loss jab Mounjaro helps people with obesity shed significantly more weight than rival Wegovy, research suggests. A study pitching the drugs against each other found Mounjaro was superior when it came to shedding kilograms and losing inches, Read More...
Healing art: medical scans get a cultural makeover
Date of Posting: 12-05-2025
Having to travel hundreds of kilometres for medical care is a common occurrence in many of Australia's regional and remote regions. But in the WA gold-mining town of Kalgoorlie, an Indigenous co-owned medical imaging business is on a mission t Read More...
Early night could have killed heart attack victim
Date of Posting: 12-05-2025
The setting sun piercing through his windscreen was making Chris Harrison's headache worse. The Melbourne council officer was driving home early from work after twice bursting into unexpected tears.[subscribe] He thought he needed to get to Read More...
Bid ensure abortion access reopens political rifts
Date of Posting: 09-05-2025
Nurses and midwives would be able to prescribe drugs for medical abortions in a plan causing rifts within major parties and prompting a former prime minister to speak out. The bill from a Greens MP that aims to overcome abortion deserts across NSW Read More...
Serious concern at high diabetes rate among Indigenous
Date of Posting: 09-05-2025
Early intervention is key to tackling disproportionate rates of diabetes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, health organisations say. Almost one in six Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults have diabetes, according to Read More...
Grand Pharma's global innovative product STC3141 reached the clinical endpoint in the Phase II
Date of Posting: 08-05-2025
The results showed that the SOFA scores of the drug treatment groups on the 7th day were significantly lower than those of the baseline, especially in the high-dose group, where the decrease was significantly greater than that in the placebo g Read More...
Mpox Resurgence in 2024: Understanding WHO's Strategic Response
Last Updated: 07-05-2025
Humanity often has a short memory, with pandemics happening rarely and often in far-flung developing nations. If COVID-19 has had any benefits, hopefully, it will remind this generation that pandemics are very real threats that can happen anywhere an Read More...
Spike in flu cases sparks plea over 'dire' rate of jabs
Date of Posting: 07-05-2025
Australians are being warned to get vaccinated before a possible severe flu season after an unusual spike in cases across the country. Low vaccination rates have reflected a "lack of concern" for influenza but Australians have been told Read More...
How physical and mental health connect
Date of Posting: 06-05-2025
Jamila Rizvi and Rosie Waterland are all too familiar with what it means to be unwell. Rizvi was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour at 31. Eight years on she navigates complex disabilities due to her acquired brain injury.[subscribe] Waterland, Read More...
Veterans still fighting demons long after their service
Date of Posting: 05-05-2025
Paul Warren remembers being flung in the air in the rough mountainous terrain of the Baloch Valley in Afghanistan. Then he looked down to see his severed leg.[subscribe] "I shifted my foot in the wrong place and it initiated an (improvised Read More...
Tunnel diggers are facing a 'full-blown disease crisis'
Date of Posting: 05-05-2025
Fine dust from massive tunnelling projects is exposing tunnellers working with heavy machinery deep underground to deadly diseases, an inquiry has been told. Silica dust exposure can lead to workers developing silicosis - an incurable, debilitatin Read More...
Court approves payout after COVID-19 aged care deaths
Date of Posting: 04-05-2025
Families of those who passed away in a deadly COVID-19 outbreak are set to be compensated months after an aged care operator's failings were exposed. As the virus ripped through Sydney's Newmarch House over 65 days from April to June 2020, Read More...
Fertility experts urge the creation of registries to safeguard donor conception practices
Date of Posting: 04-05-2025
Gamete donation has accelerated around the world in the past decade driven in part by the emergence of commercial sperm and egg banks and a growing recognition of the validity of this form of family building among single women in some countries. H Read More...
Children bearing the brunt of ADHD medicine shortage
Date of Posting: 02-05-2025
Australian children and teenagers face the biggest impacts of an international shortage of critical ADHD medications. The nation's health regulator says certain drugs used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are in short supply a Read More...
Women left waiting for share of $405m implant payout
Date of Posting: 02-05-2025
More than 1000 women injured from defective pelvic mesh implants await assessment for compensation, two years after mammoth settlements were reached. Meant to assist women with prolapses and leakage, the flawed products routinely caused chronic pa Read More...
China suggests COVID-19 originated in the US
Date of Posting: 02-05-2025
China restated its case that COVID-19 may have originated in the United States in a white paper on its pandemic response released after President Donald Trump's administration blamed a lab leak in China. The White House launched a COVID-19 web Read More...
New program offers relief for Osteoarthritis sufferers in Tasmania
Date of Posting: 01-05-2025
Osteoarthritis has long been seen as an inevitable part of ageing–a slow, grinding wear on the body that reduces movement, increases pain, and quietly reshapes everyday life. Affecting more than 2.2 million Australians today and projected to ri Read More...
White wine 'could reduce risk of cardiac arrest'
Date of Posting: 30-04-2025
Drinking white wine and Champagne, eating more fruit and keeping waistlines slim could drive down the risk of sudden cardiac arrest, according to new research. Experts suggested that thousands of cardiac arrests - where the heart suddenly stops be Read More...
'Living week-to-week': doctors struggle to stay rural
Date of Posting: 30-04-2025
After the cost of daycare fees, rent, electricity and grocery bills, a young rural doctor only just gets by. "I'm full-time to make ends meet and ... I am living week-to-week," the NSW intern, who did not want to be named, told Read More...
Cholesterol not the best predictor of heart disease
Date of Posting: 29-04-2025
A test that assesses certain particles in the blood could predict a person's risk of developing heart disease more accurately than measuring cholesterol, according to a study. Switching the focus on detecting the level of proteins associated w Read More...
Period and anxieties keeping women off sporting fields
Date of Posting: 29-04-2025
Most Australian girls and women opt out of playing sport when they have their period, says research prompting calls for free sanitary products at sporting facilities. Almost one in seven skipped sport due to their period, according to a Victoria U Read More...
Study shows simple way jabs could work better together
Date of Posting: 29-04-2025
Using the same arm for a booster vaccine as for a first dose may help the immune system respond effectively to a disease outbreak. A study published on Tuesday detailed a clinical trial where most volunteers received two vaccination jabs in one ar Read More...
Deadly class of sedative drugs detected across nation
Date of Posting: 28-04-2025
Opioids 1000 times stronger than morphine and an animal sedative used to lace street drugs have been detected in Australia's wastewater. The discovery has been described as a "red flag" and comes as the deadly class of synthetic opio Read More...
Funding for depression treatment breaks 30-year drought
Date of Posting: 28-04-2025
A mind-altering medication chemically akin to ketamine will be made cheaper to improve the lives of Australians suffering from treatment-resistant depression - the first new government-backed initiative to treat the chronic mental illness in decades. Read More...
Healthy, wealthy and wise to food sustainability
Date of Posting: 27-04-2025
Consumers who are savvy about nutrition - even more so than those driven by sustainability concerns - are vital to the battle to reduce food waste. Nutrition-conscious Australians have many excess-reducing habits and, as a result, simply waste les Read More...
Uganda declares end to latest Ebola outbreak
Date of Posting: 27-04-2025
Uganda has declared an end to the country's latest outbreak of Ebola, three months after authorities confirmed cases of the highly infectious and often fatal viral haemorrhagic infection in the capital Kampala. The East African country announc Read More...
Ambulance bosses accused of pandemic funeral cover-up
Date of Posting: 27-04-2025
Ambulance executives are being accused of covering up a secret funeral which breached COVID-19 rules, while residents languished under harsh restrictions. A bombshell submission to the Inquiry into Ambulance Victoria claims personnel flouted pande Read More...
Bacterial toxin theory for bowel cancer rise in youth
Date of Posting: 24-04-2025
A toxin produced by E.coli may be driving rates of bowel cancer in young people, scientists have discovered. Experts believe the finding could help explain why rates of bowel cancer are rising among young people across the globe.[subscribe] The Read More...
Foreign surgeon numbers hamstrung by higher standards
Date of Posting: 24-04-2025
Qualifying to be a surgeon takes years of study and hard work, but that journey is even longer for desperately needed overseas-trained surgeons. Between January 2021 and July 2024, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons assessed specialist int Read More...
Undeliverable: hospital expansion plan on life support
Date of Posting: 24-04-2025
A damning review has found every project in a state's hospital expansion plan is "undeliverable", with costs set to blow out by almost $10 billion. All 15 projects face delays of up to three years after a "deeply flawed" pr Read More...
Trump may cut US drug prices to match other countries
Date of Posting: 23-04-2025
Drug makers have been warned that US President Donald Trump's administration is considering linking United States medicine prices to lower amounts paid by other developed countries, according to two company sources who called the option the pharm Read More...
Hospital probe backs up calls by grieving parents
Date of Posting: 21-04-2025
A scathing report into a hospital where two children died waiting for treatment has prompted fresh calls for a state government to intervene. A NSW auditor-general report on Thursday savaged Healthscope, the operator of Sydney's Northern Beach Read More...
White House website backs theory COVID-19 came from lab
Date of Posting: 20-04-2025
The White House has posted a new page on the origins of the coronavirus on its official website in which it supports the theory that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory. The covid.gov website, which redirects to a page on the White House website, Read More...
Climate change demands more blood, prevents collection
Date of Posting: 20-04-2025
As extreme weather events ramp up across the nation, climate change is also having a devastating impact on the very thing needed to help treat victims. An Australian world-first study into the effect of global warming on blood donations and supply Read More...
Serious flaws at hospital where kids died after waiting
Date of Posting: 18-04-2025
The deaths of two children at a controversy-plagued hospital have sparked an emotional exchange over government inaction. A scathing report from the NSW auditor-general accused the operator of Sydney's Northern Beaches Hospital of failing to m Read More...
Scandal-prone hospital slammed in report after deaths
Date of Posting: 17-04-2025
Private operator Healthscope, which runs Sydney's Northern Beaches Hospital, has been linked to a number of high-profile deaths. WHAT THE AUDITOR-GENERAL'S REPORT HAD TO SAY:[subscribe] * The auditor-general's report into the Northe Read More...
Lead scare to temporarily close city childcare centre
Date of Posting: 17-04-2025
A childcare centre will shut for up to six months after the discovery of lead in soil below kindergarten areas. Goodstart was advised in October that its centre at Flemington, in Melbourne's northwest, tested positive for heavy metals includin Read More...
