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The number of flu cases across NSW remains low but is on the rise
Date of Posting: 06-07-2018
NSW Health says there were 178 confirmed cases of the flu across the state in the week ending July 1, a quarter the number of cases this time last year. NSW Health says 178 confirmed cases of influenza in the week ending July 1 - 50 more than the Read More...
Emergency care project for elderly to be duplicated
Date of Posting: 06-07-2018
A fast-tracked emergency department program for elderly patients co-developed by the University of the Sunshine Coast and Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service (SCHHS) is now being rolled out in Cairns and Ipswich. SCHHS emergency staff speci Read More...
New LGBTI inclusion training website launched
Date of Posting: 06-07-2018
NSW’s leading LGBTI health organisation ACON is launching a new offering for health professionals and organisations seeking to improve their inclusion practices to better serve the needs to LGBTI clients, customers and staff. ACON Pride Trai Read More...
Photo technique to support better wound care outcomes
Date of Posting: 06-07-2018
A new technique for photographing wounds that could provide more information to support wound care in people with leg wounds is being investigated in a project funded by Trajan Scientific and Medical. The Bolton Clarke Research Institute is workin Read More...
Osteopathy - a good first step in treating lower back pain
Date of Posting: 06-07-2018
Lower back pain is one of the most common complaints seen by a GP or healthcare professional. It is estimated that over 80% of Australians will experience lower back pain at some point in their lives. Lower back pain may be acute (new pain) Read More...
Need to encourage nursing students - not price them out: ACN
Date of Posting: 06-07-2018
Proposed changes to university debt repayment thresholds have the very real potential of making nursing study unattractive and exacerbate anticipated workforce shortages. “To push nurse graduates to repay their university loans before establ Read More...
More support for health care workers who experience domestic violence
Date of Posting: 06-07-2018
Research revealing female health care workers are more than twice as likely to have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from their partner in the past year than other women spotlights the urgent need for Australia to do more to care for those Read More...
Weekend physio instrumental in subacute rehabilitation
Date of Posting: 05-07-2018
Access to allied health services, in particular, physiotherapy, on weekends should be standard in the subacute rehabilitation setting, according to Australian Physiotherapy Association member Mitchell Sarkies, following new research which identified Read More...
A paramedic turned whistleblower who uncovered evidence of drug tampering
Date of Posting: 05-07-2018
A whistleblower paramedic says he felt fobbed off when he took evidence of drug tampering to a manager at the Queensland Ambulance Service. A paramedic turned whistleblower who uncovered evidence of drug tampering says the care of thousands of Que Read More...
Nursing: if it's your calling, now is your time.
Date of Posting: 05-07-2018
You have a calling. Each of us has one. Whether it’s a dream that’s captivated you since you were young, or a gentle voice growing louder inside you each day. The thing is, following a calling can be tricky. Especially when you throw life Read More...
A program that's reduced the number of babies being born early in WA will go national
Date of Posting: 04-07-2018
A program that has successfully reduced the number of pre-term births in Western Australia will be introduced nationally and could be also adopted in New Zealand and Canada. The program, which includes new clinical guidelines for health profession Read More...
South Australian children aged three years and under will receive free vaccines for meningococcal B
Date of Posting: 04-07-2018
South Australian children aged three and younger will receive free vaccinations against the potentially deadly meningococcal B disease under a new state government program. The policy will provide immunisations for children aged up to 12 months as Read More...
GPs should be trained in prescribing medicinal cannabis
Date of Posting: 04-07-2018
A survey of GPs shows that while most support the prescribed use of medicinal cannabis for their patients, they lack the training to help them. Most Australian GPs support the use of medicinal cannabis but admit they don't know enough about pr Read More...
Red Cross needs more donors of O-negative blood
Date of Posting: 03-07-2018
The Red Cross Blood Service is appealing for donors of O-negative blood to step up and give, as supplies run low. A critical shortage of O-negative blood across Australia has sparked the latest Red Cross Blood Service appeal for donors to come for Read More...
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia hit back at health check claim
Date of Posting: 02-07-2018
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has dismissed warnings from the peak body for GPs that patients should avoid health check ups at pharmacies. Pharmacists and GPs are at loggerheads over whether patients should undergo health checks at their local c Read More...
A chain of memory clinics will be set up as part of a national dementia network
Date of Posting: 02-07-2018
A new $38m dementia network is being set up to help improve access to care and research programs for thousands of Australians diagnosed with the brain disorder. A chain of memory clinics will be set up as part of a national dementia network design Read More...
Research and innovation needed to address stillbirth epidemic
Date of Posting: 29-06-2018
Australia’s stillbirth rate has barely changed in the last 20 years and is today 30 per cent higher than other developed countries, making it past time to focus investment on addressing this neglected epidemic, the Australian College of Nursing Read More...
Doctor bridges hearing gap with world-first surgery
Date of Posting: 29-06-2018
A device that can help restore hearing for those suffering chronic middle ear impairment has been successfully implanted for the first time in Queensland by Sunnybank Private Hospital ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialist Dr Andrew Chang. Dr Chang Read More...
Victoria's first supervised injecting room will open its doors within days
Last Updated: 29-06-2018
A safe injecting room in Melbourne, the state's first, will open within days, Mental Health Minister Martin Foley says. Victoria's first supervised injecting room will open its doors within days, marking the start of a two-year trial in in Read More...
Papua New Guinea declared a public health emergency over PNG polio outbreak
Date of Posting: 28-06-2018
Papua New Guinea's government has declared emergencies in three provinces following the first outbreak of polio in the country in 18 years. World Health Organisation officials confirmed the outbreak this week after a six-year-old boy from Moro Read More...
Senate committee has recommended the government consider allowing the donation of genetic material
Date of Posting: 28-06-2018
A Senate committee has recommended the government consider allowing donation of genetic material to fight a rare disease affecting babies. A groundbreaking medical technique dubbed "three-person IVF" could prevent Australian babies from Read More...
A Cancer Council NSW study has exposed inequities in the treatment of lung cancer patients
Date of Posting: 28-06-2018
As many as one-in-three lung cancer patients visit their GP multiple times before eventually presenting to emergency, acutely unwell, prior to their diagnosis, a Cancer Council NSW study has found. Researchers say the findings highlight the urgent Read More...
Better emergency care for Victorians
Date of Posting: 27-06-2018
More Victorians are set to have access to better emergency care with the opening of a new trauma centre at a Melbourne hospital. Thousands more people badly injured in car crashes, falls and assaults will have better access to emergency care at a Read More...
Yoga can reduce old people's risk of a potentially deadly fall
Date of Posting: 27-06-2018
Older people are being encouraged to take up yoga to improve their balance and reduce their risk of a potentially deadly fall. Once a week Professor Roberta Shepherd takes a yoga class and then goes for coffee with her like-minded classmates.[subs Read More...
Monash researcher wins top paper prize in top physiotherapy journal
Date of Posting: 26-06-2018
Associate Professor Carol Hodgson and Claire Tipping have been awarded the Readers’ Choice Award for the world’s highest ranked physiotherapy journal, Journal of Physiotherapy. Associate Professor Hodgson is co-deputy director of the A Read More...
Weight management program has long term benefits
Date of Posting: 26-06-2018
New research from a phase 4 review by Griffith University of an in-market weight management program provides evidence that a pharmacy based program can lead to long-term maintenance of weight loss. Long-term maintenance of weight loss on the program Read More...
World-first brain imaging study to understand mind blindness
Date of Posting: 26-06-2018
To determine why some people cannot create visual images of people, places and things in their mind’s eye, UNSW scientists are planning to conduct a world-first brain imaging study of people with this baffling condition, known as congenital aph Read More...
Improving medication management in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Date of Posting: 26-06-2018
Equitable access and effective use of medicine is critical to closing the gap in health and life expectancy between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and other Australians. Professor Amanda Wheeler from Griffith University’s Menzies Hea Read More...
More Australians seeking advance care planning advice
Date of Posting: 26-06-2018
Advance Care Planning Australia (ACPA) has reported a 462% surge in calls to their advisory service with more people seeking advice about taking active control of their future health care. With people living longer and increasingly with comp Read More...
Maternal and child health nurses will take action over week of leave
Date of Posting: 26-06-2018
Maternal and child health nurses at 20 centres across Geelong are expected to take industrial action in a bid for an additional week of annual leave. Maternal and child health nurses will scale back their non-urgent duties in Victoria's second Read More...
Australia's existing mental health services for youth are failing
Date of Posting: 26-06-2018
A report into trauma and young people has found existing mental health services are not able to meet the needs of youths with trauma. Australia's existing mental health services are failing to effectively help traumatised youth, a new report h Read More...
New hope for stage-three melanoma
Date of Posting: 26-06-2018
Melbourne man Peter Gourlay has funded his own cancer treatment for stage three melanoma but the costs are prohibitive. After witnessing family members succumb to cancer, Melbourne man Peter Gourlay was determined to do whatever it took to fight h Read More...
Victoria's health department will conduct a review into urgent care centres
Date of Posting: 25-06-2018
Victoria's health department will conduct a review over fears regional patients are being charged for free and urgent medical treatment. Victoria has ordered a review into whether patients have been wrongly charged for urgent medial treatment Read More...
Nursing accreditation at risk without adequate funding for locum support
Date of Posting: 25-06-2018
Located in the Corangamite Shire, also known as the Lakes and Craters region, Camperdown has a steady population of over 3,300 residents. It is two and a half hours west of Melbourne and just over an hour south of Ballarat with the Great Ocean Road a Read More...
Providing better health through computer games?
Date of Posting: 22-06-2018
Using computer games and virtual reality technology to create low-risk environments holds ample value for healthcare. With intense, life-or-death situations occurring regularly, medical teams can practice the latest surgery techniques, refine skills Read More...
Health inequalities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children and teenage mothers highlighted
Date of Posting: 21-06-2018
The number of Aboriginal teenage mothers in NSW has dropped and the frequency of immunisation in Aboriginal children has surpassed their non-indigenous counterparts, according to a report from the state's chief health officer. But instances of Read More...
Several cases of salmonella have been linked to South Australian alfalfa sprout products
Date of Posting: 20-06-2018
South Australians are being warned not to eat a range of alfalfa sprout products after the sprouts were linked to 21 confirmed cases of Salmonella. Several cases of salmonella have been linked to South Australian alfalfa sprout products, prompting Read More...
Australian parents are crying out for more help to tackle and prevent childhood bullying
Date of Posting: 20-06-2018
Parents of bullied children are suffering from physical illness, depression, anxiety and guilt, with researchers calling for a more inclusive approach. Australian parents are crying out for more help to tackle and prevent childhood bullying, with Read More...
Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely to die
Date of Posting: 20-06-2018
Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely to die before their fifth birthday than non-Indigenous Australians. Australia's Health 2018, a report released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on Wednesday, says indigenous Read More...
New Australian guidelines for treating transgender adolescents
Date of Posting: 19-06-2018
New Australian guidelines for treating transgender adolescents could see more teens given hormone replacement therapy at a younger age. More transgender children and teens could be given controversial hormone therapy as young as 13 or 14, under ne Read More...
