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Qld skin stocks low after cafe explosion
Date of Posting: 16-06-2015
Donated skin stocks are running low in Queensland as doctors treat victims from the state's biggest-ever mass burns disaster. Queensland skin stocks are running low as surgeons treat burns victims from the Ravenshoe cafe explosion.[subscribe] Read More...
NSW hospitals to be in crisis by 2017: AMA
Date of Posting: 16-06-2015
The state's leading medical body has warned that NSW hospitals will reach crisis point in 2017 if the Abbott government keeps its health spending cuts. NSW hospitals will be at crisis point in two years if the federal government continues to & Read More...
Superbug found in Vic hospitals
Date of Posting: 16-06-2015
Victorian hospitals to crack down on infection controls after almost 60 cases were found across the state. A superbug cluster in a Victorian health service has authorities worried after eighteen people died with it in their systems.[subscribe] Read More...
Last Updated: 15-06-2015
The Australian branch of the British Red Cross Society was formed in 1914 amid the outbreak of the First World War. One hundred years later, nurses and allied health professionals are still answering the organisation’s call to help others, writ Read More...
Diet at conception can affect baby's DNA
Date of Posting: 12-06-2015
Researchers say a baby's DNA can be affected by what their mother eats before pregnancy and one gene is especially sensitive to these changes. A mother's diet around the time of conception could permanently change the function of a gene th Read More...
Medicare doesn't mean free care: Ley
Date of Posting: 12-06-2015
Federal health minister Sussan Ley says some people misunderstand Medicare to mean free health care but what it really offers is universal access to care. People who believe the Medicare system guarantees free access to health care are wrong, fede Read More...
Aust cancer vaccine inventor wins award
Date of Posting: 12-06-2015
Former Australian of the Year, Professor Ian Frazer, has won an international award for co-developing the world's first cervical cancer vaccine. Australia's Professor Ian Frazer and his late Chinese colleague have won a prestige internatio Read More...
Dietitians keeping the body in mind
Date of Posting: 12-06-2015
A pioneering Sydney program is tackling the nutritional and physical health of young people with severe mental illness. Keeping the Body in Mind is possibly the first Australian initiative that works to improve the physical health outcomes of peop Read More...
Babies to be tested after TB hospital case
Last Updated: 11-06-2015
Up to 40 babies and toddlers who may have come into contact with a Queensland hospital worker who has TB will be screened for the disease. Up to 40 Queensland babies and toddlers will be screened for tuberculosis after a health worker at the Glads Read More...
Dementia isn't just older people's disease
Last Updated: 11-06-2015
The NDIS will not be able to cope effectively with younger people with dementia, says Alzheimer's Australia. One in 13 Australians with dementia is aged under 65, say campaigners concerned about their plight under the national disability insur Read More...
South Australia heads for big flu season
Date of Posting: 11-06-2015
South Australia is heading for a big flu season this year after a sharp rise in the number of reported cases last year. South Australian health authorities are bracing for another serious flu season this winter after the state's worst flu seas Read More...
Woman has baby from frozen ovary tissue
Date of Posting: 10-06-2015
A 27-year-old Belgian woman has given birth to a healthy baby boy after overcoming a unique and unprecedented series of fertility obstacles. In a world first, a woman has given birth after surgeons implanted ovarian tissue that had been removed wh Read More...
Bring a little "e" into your clinical practice: using Australia's online mental health resources.
Last Updated: 09-06-2015
Over the last 15 years, the field of e-mental health has expanded rapidly and many websites, programs and online counselling services are now available to the public. Australia is acknowledged as an international leader in developing, testing and dep Read More...
Qld hospital denies turning away ill kids
Date of Posting: 09-06-2015
Brisbane's new children's hospital is not diverting seriously ill children to other facilities, says the head of Children's Health Queensland. The governing body for the new children's hospital in Brisbane has denied a report that Read More...
Bladder cancer hits women worse
Date of Posting: 09-06-2015
Women are being urged to watch for signs of bladder cancer, with health experts saying many mistake the illness for a less serious urine infection. Survival rates for bladder cancer in women are about 10 per cent worse than for men, UK health expe Read More...
South Korea reports seventh MERS death
Date of Posting: 09-06-2015
There's mounting public concern as South Korea has recorded its seventh death from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus. South Korea has recorded its seventh death from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus, and confirmed eight new cases in Read More...
Childhood stolen by juvenile arthritis
Last Updated: 05-06-2015
Anni Grindrod was stricken with arthritis when she eight years old. She is one of 6000 Australians whose childhoods are blighted by the disease. For Anni Grindrod it started at the age of eight, when her parents rushed her to hospital emergency wi Read More...
Baby dies from of meningococcal in SA
Last Updated: 05-06-2015
An Adelaide baby has died from meningococcal disease, one of five cases in SA in September. A six-month old girl has died in Adelaide from meningococcal disease.[subscribe] SA Health said she was one of five people diagnosed with the disease in Read More...
Stain on our Nation: Domestic and Family Violence
Last Updated: 05-06-2015
My first public health research position years ago involved gathering injury surveillance statistics in the Emergency Department (ED) of a major metropolitan hospital. My role entailed describing the context of a wide range of injuries: sporting, dom Read More...
'Female Viagra' gets backing of US panel
Date of Posting: 05-06-2015
An FDA advisory panel has recommended a "female Viagra" drug be approved for the US market. A US advisory panel has urged regulators to approve a drug nicknamed the "female Viagra" because it could help increase women's sex Read More...
Texas doctors in first skull transplant
Last Updated: 05-06-2015
Doctors in Houston have successfully performed the world's first partial skull and scalp transplant. Texas doctors have performed the world's first partial skull and scalp transplant to help a man with a large head wound from cancer treatm Read More...
NSW emergency wait times stable: report
Date of Posting: 04-06-2015
Wait times in emergency rooms in NSW hospitals has remained stable at about four hours or less, according to a new report. NSW public hospitals have maintained waiting times despite an increase in patients visiting the emergency department, a repo Read More...
Bullying linked to depression: UK study
Date of Posting: 03-06-2015
A British study has found that bullying significantly increases rates of youth depression. Young adults who were bullied during childhood are more than twice as likely to suffer from depression, British research suggests.[subscribe] The study, Read More...
Dump homeopathy products, pharmacists told
Date of Posting: 03-06-2015
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners says pharmacists should stop selling homeopathic products because they do nothing for users. Doctors have urged pharmacists to strip their shelves of homeopathic products because they do nothin Read More...
Minister confirms drug co-payment remains
Date of Posting: 02-06-2015
Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash has confirmed a plan to impose a $5 co-payment for prescription drugs remains on the table. A federal government proposal to impose a $5 co-payment for prescription drugs remains on the table.[subscribe] Ass Read More...
Cerebral palsy gene link firms
Date of Posting: 02-06-2015
A University of Adelaide team has found further evidence to suggest genetics plays a bigger role than previously thought in cerebral palsy. Up to 45 per cent of all cases of cerebral palsy in children can be attributed to genetic causes, rather th Read More...
Date of Posting: 01-06-2015
If a woman is ready for a child, she should start trying by the time she is 30, a British fertility specialist says. Women hoping to get pregnant should start trying for a baby before they turn 30, a top fertility doctor says.[subscribe] In a l Read More...
Study questions brain radiation for cancer
Date of Posting: 01-06-2015
Doctors say contrary to conventional wisdom, radiation therapy to the whole brain doesn't improve survival, and harms memory, speech and thinking skills. A major study could change care for many of the hundreds of thousands of people each year Read More...
WA mental health crisis nurses to aid cops
Date of Posting: 01-06-2015
WA's police commissioner says up to 24 nurses could be given special powers to help police who encounter suspects with a mental illness. Nurses given limited police powers as part of proposed mental health teams would only be called out for cr Read More...
NZ loses last gender reassignment surgeon
Date of Posting: 29-05-2015
Parliament's health select committee has heard it would be difficult to recruit a new team to perform gender reassignment surgeries in New Zealand. New Zealand's only surgeon performing male to female gender reassignment operations has ret Read More...
South Korea reports seven MERS cases
Date of Posting: 29-05-2015
The total number of MERS virus infections in South Korea has risen to seven, officials say. South Korean officials say they have confirmed two more MERS virus infections, bringing the total number of cases to seven, as one suspected victim ignored Read More...
Lung cancer leading cause of cancer deaths
Date of Posting: 29-05-2015
The number of new cases of breast and prostate cancer in Australia has jumped, says global survey for 2013. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Australia, while the number of women with breast cancer and men with prostate cancer ha Read More...
Date of Posting: 29-05-2015
Doctors are set to discuss how to get the Medicare system out of its mid-life crisis at the AMA's national conference in Brisbane. Doctors are set to discuss ways to make the Medicare system more efficient after the federal government's fa Read More...
Date of Posting: 28-05-2015
The number of attacks on ambulance officers is on the rise in South Australia, prompting a new awareness campaign. Attacks on ambulance officers in South Australia have jumped more than 70 per cent during the past three years, prompting a new camp Read More...
Herpes effective against cancer in trials
Date of Posting: 28-05-2015
A modified version of herpes has been effective against cancer, the first time an advanced-stage trial of the type of drug has shown such positive results. A genetically modified herpes virus has been effective in fighting skin cancer by infecting Read More...
Over four espressos a day can be harmful
Date of Posting: 28-05-2015
The risks from caffeine from all dietary sources have been assessed by the EU for the first time and it seems more than four espressos could be harmful. Drinking the caffeine equivalent of more than four espressos a day is harmful to health, espec Read More...
Hallucinations more common than thought
Last Updated: 28-05-2015
Delusions and hallucinations do not happen just to psychotic people and may be completely normal, researchers say. Hearing voices and seeing things that others cannot are not necessarily signs of psychosis and may be more common than people think, Read More...
Study supports early HIV treatment
Date of Posting: 28-05-2015
Everyone with HIV infection should receive immediate, not deferred, treatment, say researchers after significant interim trial results. The risk of death or serious illness was halved in HIV-positive people who received immediate treatment, accord Read More...
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The future of aged care nursing in Australia
Last Updated: 27-05-2015
As baby boomers retire over the next twenty years, what impact will this have on the delivery of aged care services? Forecasts of the impact of ageing baby boomers point to problems in the provision of aged and community care in Australia, particu Read More...
WA nurses to be the highest paid in Australia
Last Updated: 27-05-2015
Western Australian nurses have won their fight to become the highest paid nurses in the country. The state’s 13,000 nurses will receive a 14.7 per cent pay rise over three years, with no loss of conditions, after the government negotiated a Read More...
