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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...
Global pact to shore up world's future pandemic defence
Date of Posting: 17-04-2025
Members of the World Health Organisation have reached an agreement to prepare the world for future pandemics after more than three years of negotiations, the organisation says. The legally binding pact is intended to shore up the world's defen Read More...
Dose of cultural medicine to 'decolonise healthcare'
Date of Posting: 16-04-2025
Including cultural medicine in mainstream healthcare may improve health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, but a lack of understanding is impeding access. While 90 per cent of Indigenous people would like to access cultural Read More...
AI and 3D technology weaponised in fight against cancer
Date of Posting: 16-04-2025
Australian researchers will 'print' cancer cells in 3D and use artificial intelligence software to analyse them after receiving a $2 million grant to invest in the technology. Macquarie University and the Australian Cancer Research Foundat Read More...
Barriers to clear in private-public hospital talkse
Date of Posting: 16-04-2025
A taskforce will scour a private hospital operator's contract to run a public health facility is being examined as the company looks for a way out of the deal amid its uncertain future. Healthscope has proposed transitioning Sydney's 488-b Read More...
The Role of Allied Health in delivering Reablement and Wellness Services
Last Updated: 15-04-2025
From Quality of Life to Quality of Death As Australia prepares for the new Aged Care Act and strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards from 1 July 2025, reablement and wellness are emerging as guiding principles in aged care reform. These approach Read More...
Cost of mental healthcare stacking up on troubled youth
Date of Posting: 15-04-2025
Caring for mental health is hitting young people hardest in the hip pocket, with algorithmic social media bleeding into their lives and a cost-of-living crisis weighing on their wellbeing. Those are the findings of a study by behavioural science n Read More...
Hidden crisis in gynaecological cancers affecting women
Date of Posting: 15-04-2025
A hidden crisis is affecting women diagnosed with gynaecological cancer as treatment options vary and survival rates remain some of the poorest. Gynaecological cancers remain among the most lethal for women and include uterine (endometrial), ovari Read More...
'Reduce the misery' and get a flu jab, experts urge
Date of Posting: 15-04-2025
With winter closing in, health experts are urging people to get vaccinated against respiratory diseases, warning that the flu can be deadly. There have been more influenza B cases so far in 2025 than at the same time in recent years, particularly Read More...
'Ageism impacts everyone': Australians demand action
Date of Posting: 13-04-2025
There's a push for a national plan to tackle ageism, with the majority of people over 50 demanding better support ahead of the federal election. Six in ten people surveyed by advocacy group COTA Australia want action immediately, nominating th Read More...
Spotlight on IVF regulation over embryo mix-up
Date of Posting: 13-04-2025
IVF regulation is in the spotlight after a mix-up that led to a women giving birth to a baby not related to her, with little chance the genetic parents can claim custody. Leading fertility clinic Monash IVF revealed a woman at a Brisbane facility Read More...
Small business owners too overwrought for mental health
Date of Posting: 13-04-2025
Small business owners simply don't have time for mental health. They're head of operations, head of marketing, head of sales. They keep customers happy and suppliers and overheads paid, and complete an average of 15 hours of government pap Read More...
Woman gives birth to stranger's baby after IVF bungle
Date of Posting: 11-04-2025
A woman has given birth to another person's baby after their fertility care provider mixed up their embryos. Monash IVF, which operates across Australia, has apologised after a patient at one of its Brisbane clinics had an embryo incorrectly t Read More...
Young survivors say cancer does not end with remission
Date of Posting: 11-04-2025
Youth cancer survivor Dawson Sorby said words cannot describe how it felt to go into remission. His cancer was gone, but treatment was far from over.[subscribe] "I wasn't really able to process it at the time," he said. "A Read More...
'Forgotten' disability workers rally for pay boost
Date of Posting: 10-04-2025
Music from a loud brass band and union chants echoed through the top end of town as "forgotten" workers rallied for a pay boost. Dozens of disability support workers marched through Melbourne's city streets on Thursday to draw attent Read More...
Multibillion-dollar benefit of reproductive leave
Date of Posting: 10-04-2025
Australia loses more than $21 billion in productivity every year due to absenteeism but providing workers with one day of reproductive leave a month would significantly mitigate this economic cost. A report into the costs and benefits of implement Read More...
Tired doctors cannot 'switch off' from saving patients
Date of Posting: 09-04-2025
Saving lives has become harder amid a mass walkout of doctors who have been driven to breaking point as public hospitals struggle with millions of patients. Australian Catholic University academic Xavier Symonds says a stretched workforce does not Read More...
