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Marathon ambo pay dispute hit the community, says union
Date of Posting: 24-09-2024
Union officials have acknowledged the impact a marathon pay dispute between ambos and the Victorian government had on paramedics and the broader community. The Victorian Ambulance Union on Monday reached an in-principle agreement with Ambulance Vi Read More...
Surgeries cancelled as nurses strike over pay rise row
Date of Posting: 24-09-2024
More than 400 surgeries have been cancelled as nurses strike across NSW despite an independent recommendation to accept an interim pay rise and continue negotiations. The 24-hour stop-work action by nurses and midwives on Tuesday will affect 454 e Read More...
India reports first case of fast-spreading mpox variety
Date of Posting: 24-09-2024
India says an mpox case involving a man in the southern state of Kerala was from the fast-spreading clade 1b variety, marking South Asia's first recorded case from the new strain. Health Ministry spokeswoman Manisha Verma confirmed the strain Read More...
New Head to Health Kids Hub to Support Children's Mental Health in Perth
Date of Posting: 23-09-2024
Exciting news for families in Perth, Western Australia: a new Head to Health Kids Hub is set to open, providing essential early intervention and mental health support for children under 12. This initiative aims to address mild to moderate development Read More...
Call for thousands of blood donors as demand skyrockets
Last Updated: 23-09-2024
Blood demand is at a 12-year high and plasma is even more in need, sparking a call for Australians to roll up their sleeves. The Red Cross is urging 100,000 Australians - the same number who will fill the MCG for the AFL grand final on Saturday - Read More...
Digital healthcare the solution to unprecedented mental health crisis.
Date of Posting: 22-09-2024
Australia is in the midst of an unprecedented mental health crisis, according to experts, due to the pressures of modern life, compounded by global events. Clinical Psychologist, Dr Carolyn Lorian said workplaces were bearing witness to the silent Read More...
The company whose workforce is 80 per cent neurodiverse
Date of Posting: 22-09-2024
For neurodiverse Data Analyst, Harrison Robb, finding an employer willing to adapt to his unique needs hasn’t been easy. But since becoming employed at Australian Spatial Analytics, that’s all changed.[subscribe] “ASA has been Read More...
The company whose workforce is 80 per cent neurodiverse
Date of Posting: 22-09-2024
For neurodiverse Data Analyst, Harrison Robb, finding an employer willing to adapt to his unique needs hasn’t been easy. But since becoming employed at Australian Spatial Analytics, that’s all changed.[subscribe] “ASA has been Read More...
Immunocompromised to receive free shingles vaccine
Date of Posting: 22-09-2024
Immunocompromised Australians will have free access to the shingles vaccine in an expansion of the immunisation program. The free vaccine program will now be made available to anyone over 18 who is immunocompromised due to health conditions or a s Read More...
Hospitals still have to monitor IV bags amid shortage
Date of Posting: 22-09-2024
Hospitals will still have enough IV bags for treatments, the health minister has assured, but admits health systems are not "out of the woods" over a possible shortage. An increase in demand and manufacturing constraints had seen a globa Read More...
Minister vows 'assertive' approach on vape crackdown
Date of Posting: 22-09-2024
A more "assertive" approach is needed to crack down on stores illegally selling vapes, the federal health minister says, with many outlets still breaking the law. Laws that kicked in from July saw vapes only allowed to be sold in pharmac Read More...
Nurses strike to go ahead despite recommended wage rise
Date of Posting: 20-09-2024
Nurses will go ahead with a planned strike in NSW after rejecting an interim wage rise recommended by the state's industrial umpire. Members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association plan to stage a 24-hour strike from 7am on Tuesday, in the Read More...
'Ever present': help for families after infant loss
Date of Posting: 20-09-2024
As soon as Lilly Castor found out she was pregnant, she imagined a future filled with family adventures and tales from the school yard. When her son Vincent was stillborn in November 2022, those lost dreams compounded her grief.[subscribe] &quo Read More...
Healthcare Outsourcing India: Cynergy BPO - How Advanced Tech is Revolutionising Patient Care
Last Updated: 18-09-2024
In today’s healthcare industry, the demand for efficient, scalable, and technologically advanced solutions has never been greater. Providers across Australia, the UK, the US, and Canada are confronting rising operational costs and an ever-growi Read More...
'Still safe': PFAS detected in Blue Mountains water
Date of Posting: 18-09-2024
Authorities say water in the Blue Mountains remains safe after independent testing allegedly found synthetic PFAS chemicals 50 times higher than Australian drinking water standards. Independent tests commissioned by the Sydney Morning Herald repor Read More...
Spike in ambulance demand as ED admissions also rise
Date of Posting: 18-09-2024
Emergency departments and ambulance services remain under the pump in NSW, with demand for both continuing to outpace the state's population growth. Ambulance personnel attended nearly 285,000 incidents between April and June, a figure the Bur Read More...
Worst Injuries Suffered by Australian Sports People
Date of Posting: 17-09-2024
In the realm of sports, physical prowess and agility are quite rightly celebrated. However, as is presumably the case with elite sportsmen and women, injuries often lurk around the corner which can cast long shadows over their careers. Australians ar Read More...
National Women's Health Advisory Council Working To End Gender Bias in Australian Healthcare
Last Updated: 17-09-2024
“Wandering Uterus.” The phrase hysteria isn’t one that’s often heard in an official capacity these days, but it only takes a quick Google search to see that its legacy is still very much alive. The misogynistic treatment of wo Read More...
Advocates hopeful menopause report sparks change
Last Updated: 17-09-2024
Advocates hope a landmark report into the impacts of menopause will spark much needed conversations around the condition and lead to meaningful change. The Senate is handing down its inquiry report into the economic, physical, mental and financial Read More...
Long-COVID study could unlock new vaccines, treatments
Date of Posting: 17-09-2024
Special cells with long memories could help produce new coronavirus treatments on the back of breakthrough Australian research. A Doherty Institute study found memory "T cells" that recognise long-COVID can be established and fight subse Read More...
Man dead after ambulance wait amid crew shortage
Date of Posting: 17-09-2024
High levels of sick-leave left Victoria down 50 ambulances overnight and in a dangerous position, the boss of the state's paramedics union says. Victorian Ambulance Union Secretary Danny Hill said he had been told of a 69-year-old Melbourne ma Read More...
Higher aged care payments to boost quality, fairness
Date of Posting: 13-09-2024
Some older Australians will now have to pay more for aged care, but the government says it will be worth it. About 1.4 million seniors will receive greater support to live independently at home before going into aged care after the federal governm Read More...
Government reaches deal on aged care reform
Date of Posting: 12-09-2024
Older Australians will be given more support to stay in their own home for longer under sweeping reforms to aged care. The federal government has reached a deal with the coalition as part of a $5.6 billion package.[subscribe] Prime Minister Ant Read More...
Laughter may be as effective as drops for dry eyes
Date of Posting: 12-09-2024
Laughter therapy may be just as good as drops for treating dry eyes, according to medical researchers. Repeating "Hee hee hee, hah hah hah, cheese cheese cheese, cheek cheek cheek, hah hah hah hah hah hah" a number of times a day over an Read More...
Child vaping sucks away chance of ciggie-free Australia
Date of Posting: 11-09-2024
Children who use vapes face a much greater risk of progressing to cigarettes, research shows. Generation Vape, a national research project into the growing rates of e-cigarette use among young people, surveyed more than 5100 teenagers.[subscribe] Read More...
Australia leaks $100b from incontinence issue costs
Date of Posting: 11-09-2024
Former Australian Diamonds netballer Kimberley Smith thought leaking during intense training sessions was normal. "I first noticed I was experiencing incontinence during particularly hard training sessions when I would leak," she said.[s Read More...
Promise to improve wellbeing to prevent suicide scourge
Date of Posting: 10-09-2024
Tackling the root causes of distress, such as childhood abuse, alcohol and drug-related harm and intimate partner violence, are at the heart of an all-encompassing approach to eliminating suicide in Australia. Improving wellbeing in the community Read More...
Checks change aids healthy increase in overseas doctors
Date of Posting: 10-09-2024
Australian patients are benefiting from a surge of overseas doctors plugging healthcare gaps after an end to in-person identity checks. Regulators had previously required the checks, forcing international doctors to arrive in Australia and wait on Read More...
Nurses, midwives hit streets to press pay-rise demands
Date of Posting: 10-09-2024
Thousands of nurses have hit streets across NSW to demand a pay rise, defying an order to call off the strike. Nurses and midwives walked off the job on Tuesday morning for a 12-hour protest after demands for a 15 per cent wage increase were rebuf Read More...
'Night owls' at higher risk of type 2 diabetes
Date of Posting: 09-09-2024
People who are more active at night - often referred to as night owls - have a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study. Those who stay up late are more likely to smoke or have an unhealthy diet, researchers said, although t Read More...
'Critical': union urges reproductive leave for all
Date of Posting: 09-09-2024
Workers with certain health issues could be given 12 more days off part of a push to expand reproductive leave to all Australian employees. Hundreds of workers at disability service provider Scope will be the first in Australia to receive 12 days Read More...
Fight to keep deadly avian influenza strain at bay
Date of Posting: 08-09-2024
Australia's ability to fight off a deadly strain of avian influenza will be put to the test in a bid to keep a global outbreak ripping through animal populations overseas at bay. No cases of H5N1 avian influenza have yet been detected in Austr Read More...
Swabs left in patients among litany of surgical errors
Date of Posting: 06-09-2024
Deaths caused by sponges left inside patients' bodies after surgery and fatal medication errors have been uncovered in a new review into harmful events at Victorian hospitals. Some 245 sentinel or "harm events" were uncovered in the Read More...
Nurses pay row escalates with thousands to strike
Date of Posting: 06-09-2024
A pay dispute between NSW nurses and the state government will ramp up when thousands of union members walk off the job at public hospitals in a day-long strike. The stop-work action by nurses and midwives on Tuesday is expected to affect elective Read More...
Council's cancer cluster a chance occurrence
Date of Posting: 05-09-2024
A cancer cluster among workers in a suburban Sydney office appears to have occurred by chance after extensive radiation testing. Teams of nuclear radiation experts were brought into Liverpool City Council's offices in July and August after fiv Read More...
Health minister defends 'urgent' $422m hospital funding
Date of Posting: 05-09-2024
Victoria's hospitals came within days of being unable to pay staff or creditors, prompting the health minister to request $422 million be urgently pumped into the system. Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas wrote to Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas Read More...
Chiropractic Manipulation of Infants' Spines Ban Reinstated
Date of Posting: 05-09-2024
An interim ban on spinal manipulation of children under 2 years old, which was lifted in 2019, has been reinstated by the Chiropractic Board of Australia. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners criticised the earlier lifting of the Read More...
Afghan physiotherapist escaped the Taliban and now working in Australia
Date of Posting: 05-09-2024
Fahima Mohammadi thought her career as a physiotherapist was over the day the Taliban regained control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, in 2021. For many months, it was, until Fahima connected online with Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB) – a Read More...
Mental health decline for smartphone, social media gen
Date of Posting: 03-09-2024
Parents are being urged to engage with their children about prolonged social media and smart phone use after Queensland research found more than half of young people feel stressed and anxious. Queensland Chief Health Officer John Gerrard says it i Read More...
Clinicians telling women their pain is 'psychological'
Date of Posting: 03-09-2024
Women are being told by health professionals that their pain is a psychological or personality issue. That's according to Victoria's health minister, who detailed early findings from a women's pain inquiry that heard from 13,000 women, Read More...
