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New research has found a strong link between 'good' cholesterol and brain health in old age
Date of Posting: 22-10-2018
Good cholesterol could be the key to long term brain health and the prevention of dementia in women, new research has revealed. The findings come as two thirds of people living with dementia are women and confirmation from the Australian Bureau of Read More...
New report shows that osteoporosis is being under-diagnosed in Australia
Last Updated: 18-10-2018
A new report has revealed osteoporosis is being under-diagnosed in Australia and it is costing taxpayers. Bone health has been put on the map following a new report into preventing and diagnosing osteoporosis.[subscribe] Former Australian crick Read More...
Opioid crisis set to soar under Government's private health insurance (PHI) changes
Date of Posting: 18-10-2018
The new Private Health Insurance (PHI) policy changes have reignited concerns over Australia’s opioid epidemic, with Australians denied access to life-changing pain management treatments unless they hold the top-tier Gold policy. A Read More...
Professor's electrifying journey through the gut
Date of Posting: 18-10-2018
Imagine watching the inside of a stomach at work: the gut walls breaking down food, transporting and mixing it in the small intestine and compacting and sorting the waste in the colon. For the last 15 years bioengineer Professor Leo Cheng has been Read More...
New scholarships to train the next generation of Indigenous psychologists
Date of Posting: 18-10-2018
Curtin graduate and Western Australia’s Australian of the Year for 2018 Dr Tracy Westerman, in collaboration with Curtin University, has launched a unique scholarship program for Indigenous students to study psychology. The Tracy Westerman A Read More...
Diabetes a major health issue in the bush
Date of Posting: 18-10-2018
The National Rural Health Alliance has highlighted the startling figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report Diabetes Indicators for the Australian National Diabetes Strategy 2016-2020. The report shows that people in Read More...
Prime Minister Morrison rejects fresh asylum seeker calls
Last Updated: 17-10-2018
A pediatrician who spent time treating patients on Nauru says he is amazed government policy is forcing ill children to remain in detention without proper care. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is staring down fresh demands from Australian doctors an Read More...
Why aged-care residents need their pets
Date of Posting: 17-10-2018
Australia has one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the world which shows we value our animal companions. Sadly, this high prevalence isn’t reflected in residential aged care according to a study by the Animal Welfare League of Australia Read More...
Experts on HIV to meet ministers in Canberra to discuss treatment, prevention and discrimination
Date of Posting: 17-10-2018
Experts on HIV will meet in Canberra with key decision-makers in a bid to build a better strategy for testing, treatment and prevention of the virus. More than a quarter of Australians living with HIV don't have their virus suppressed, as expe Read More...
New blood test could prevent unnecessary chemo for patients recovering from bowel and ovarian cancer
Date of Posting: 17-10-2018
A new blood test being trialled could prevent the "blind" administration of chemotherapy for patients recovering from ovarian and bowel cancer. To prevent cancer recurring patients often receive chemotherapy after surgery despite no indi Read More...
Health professionals will gather to discuss mental health at summit
Date of Posting: 16-10-2018
Emergency doctors and psychiatrists will gather together in Melbourne to discuss how to tackle Australia's mental health crisis. Doctors, psychiatrists and nurses will gather in Melbourne to find a way to tackle rising numbers of mental health Read More...
Drug and Alcohol Nurse Practitioner Scholarship for Grampians Loddon-Mallee region
Last Updated: 15-10-2018
Orticare is the Grampians Loddon Mallee Pharmacotherapy Network, one of five area-based networks in Victoria. We are working to create better access to pharmacotherapy services for all clients living in this region. One of Orticare’s current Read More...
Doctors, nurses and ambulance officers in Adelaide demand solution to solve hospital overcrowding
Last Updated: 12-10-2018
Doctors, nurses and ambulance officers have come together in Adelaide to demand more action from the government to solve hospital overcrowding. Doctors, nurses and ambulance officers have come together in Adelaide to demand swift action from the s Read More...
South Australian nurses defend proposed industrial action
Date of Posting: 12-10-2018
The South Australian government has asked the employment tribunal to intervene against a planned industrial action across Adelaide's major hospitals. Nurses have defended proposed industrial action across Adelaide's major hospitals, which Read More...
Victorian children with dental issues is on the rise
Date of Posting: 12-10-2018
The number of Victorian children undergoing general anaesthetic to remove decaying baby teeth is increasing, new figures show. A growing number of Victorian children are being put under general anaesthetic to have rotten teeth pulled, in a trend l Read More...
Sydney aged care home sanctioned after alleged assault on elderly resident
Last Updated: 12-10-2018
A Sydney aged care home that made headlines after a worker was allegedly filmed assaulting an elderly resident has been sanctioned by the Health Department. The Health Department has sanctioned a Sydney aged care home after an audit found there wa Read More...
Strawberries from WA have been removed from New Zealand shelves
Last Updated: 12-10-2018
The Choice brand of strawberries from WA has been pulled from New Zealand shelves after a customer found needles in a punnet, with local police investigating. The hunt for those sabotaging strawberries with needles has gone trans-Tasman with the f Read More...
Hospital patients will be checked for potentially-deadly clots
Last Updated: 12-10-2018
Hospital patients will be checked more closely for their susceptibility to potentially-deadly clots as part of heightened health standards. Australia's hospital patients are more than 25 times more likely to develop potentially-deadly blood cl Read More...
Silicosis sufferrers are urging the federal government to deal with this issue
Date of Posting: 12-10-2018
Sufferers of the deadly lung disease silicosis are urging the federal government to do more to deal with the issue, which could affect thousands. It's feared thousands of Australian workers have contracted the deadly lung disease silicosis, as Read More...
Listeria found in pre-packed silverside meat sold at South Australian supermarket chain
Date of Posting: 11-10-2018
Listeria has been found during routine tests of silverside meat sold through a local supermarket chain. SA Health says there have been no reported cases of infection from the meat sold through Drakes Supermarkets, but all product is being withdraw Read More...
How well prepared are health professionals to have tough conversations that matter?
Date of Posting: 10-10-2018
Most health professionals want what’s best for their patients. It’s part of their DNA. Increasingly, the health professionals I meet understand the importance of advance care planning in supporting patient-care. However many of them expre Read More...
Dummies not to blame for common speech disorder in kids
Date of Posting: 10-10-2018
New University of Sydney research shows bottles, dummies, and thumb sucking in the early years of life do not cause or worsen phonological impairment, the most common type of speech disorder in children. The study, published in Folia Phoniatrica e Read More...
Clinical trial of new treatment for common cold
Date of Posting: 10-10-2018
The USC Clinical Trials Centre is launching a trial of a new nasal spray that aims to reduce the severity and duration of the common cold, which remains the most likely illness to affect both children and adults. Cold symptoms are caused by viral Read More...
Fentanyl consumption more than doubled in regional Australia
Last Updated: 10-10-2018
Regional Australians more than doubled their use of the highly potent opioid fentanyl within a year, the latest wastewater tests show. An Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission report released on Tuesday shows use of the pain killer fentanyl Read More...
Mum of Bhutanese conjoined twins confident in separation surgery
Last Updated: 10-10-2018
The devoted mother of Bhutan-born conjoined twins has confidence that Melbourne surgeons will be able to separate her beloved daughters. Devoted mum Bjumchu Zangmo is confident Australian surgeons will separate her conjoined twin daughters who are Read More...
World's largest music therapy trial launches for dementia patients
Date of Posting: 10-10-2018
University of Melbourne researchers will work with aged care home residents and their carers to undertake the world’s largest music therapy trial, with a focus on depression in those with dementia. The three-year study started at Bupa&r Read More...
Landmark study highlights long-term success of weight loss surgery
Date of Posting: 10-10-2018
A 20-year study by Monash University researchers has demonstrated that lap-band surgery provides substantial weight loss to obese people for at least 20 years. Obesity is estimated to affect more than a quarter of Australian adults and has now ove Read More...
Motorcyclists is raising money to fight prostate cancer and men's mental health issues
Last Updated: 10-10-2018
Motorcyclists from around the world have dressed in their finest suits raising money to fight prostate cancer and men's mental health issues. More than 114,000 motorcycle riders around the world have donned their finest silk waistcoats and tai Read More...
Most Australian women are not using contraception
Date of Posting: 08-10-2018
A new study has found more than half of unintended pregnancies are the result of Australian women not using contraception. Australian women are giving contraception the cold shoulder.[subscribe] A new study has found more than half of unintende Read More...
The UK government look at Australia to fill GP shortages
Date of Posting: 05-10-2018
The UK government is to offer Australian doctors a $34,000 incentive to relocate so it can address an alarming shortage of GPs. Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is to offer cash incentives to Australian GPs in an attempt to fill an alar Read More...
A world-first blood and tissue skin cancer test trials start in Australia
Date of Posting: 05-10-2018
Australian researchers are hoping to develop a world-first blood and tissue test which could help identify the early signs of skin cancer. Researchers are hoping to make a breakthrough in identifying the early signs of Australia's most common Read More...
How to improve the NDIS for people who have an intellectual disability as well as a mental illness
Last Updated: 04-10-2018
Full implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) started two years ago, but many people with disability are not receiving the support they need. One such group are people with complex support needs, such as pe Read More...
Australian-first program offers remote access to multidisciplinary pain management
Last Updated: 04-10-2018
An innovative online physiotherapy program is offering remote access to the full scope of pain management, providing education and skills based training for the management of chronic pain. “A multidisciplinary pain management program is best Read More...
New hope for diagnosis and treatment of digestive disorders
Date of Posting: 04-10-2018
Debilitating and common digestive disorders that can take years to diagnose and are hard to treat are the target of new research from Dr Tim Angeli at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) at the University of Auckland. Thanks to his Rutherf Read More...
Antenatal scans save heart disease babies' lives
Date of Posting: 04-10-2018
Babies with life-threatening but treatable heart disease are more likely to survive if the disease is picked up before birth a new study shows – but researchers say too few pregnant women in Aotearoa New Zealand receive an antenatal diagnosis. Read More...
Organ transplant recipient app manages high skin cancer risk
Date of Posting: 04-10-2018
Organ transplant recipients have a shocking 80 per cent higher risk of skin cancer due to the immune system suppressing medication they must take for life. QUT skin cancer prevention researchers want transplant recipients to collaborate on the des Read More...
Thermal imaging improves diabetes related foot ulcer assessment
Date of Posting: 04-10-2018
Thermal imaging can better predict a diabetes-related foot ulcer’s size and the healing trajectory than conventional methods, Melbourne-led research has found. It could also possibly save money through better-targeted treatment. T Read More...
Treatment shown to reduce fractures in older women
Date of Posting: 04-10-2018
Researchers from the University of Auckland have shown that a treatment known to reduce fractures in women with osteoporosis is equally effective in reducing fractures in women over the age of 65 who have only mild bone loss. Distinguished Professor Read More...
A medication for treating severe inflammatory spinal arthritis will soon be subsidised
Date of Posting: 04-10-2018
A medication for severe inflammatory spinal arthritis will cost about $40 instead of $1,300 when it is subsidised by the federal government from December. A medication for treating severe inflammatory spinal arthritis will soon be subsidised by th Read More...
Nurses at RAH will come together to seek solutions to the pressures on the hospital
Date of Posting: 03-10-2018
Tired and stressed nurses across all wards at Royal Adelaide Hospital will come together next week to consider ways to reduce workloads amid fears patients' lives are at risk. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation says the action has Read More...
