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Common fabric could save lives from most deadly disease
Date of Posting: 22-05-2025
Turning silk like fairy floss into artificial blood vessels will provide a lifeline for cardiovascular patients, scientists say. Cardiovascular disease is Australia's top killer, contributing to one in four deaths.[subscribe] But after almo Read More...
WHO says vaccine-derived poliovirus detected in PNGs
Date of Posting: 21-05-2025
The World Health Organisation says circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 has been detected in stool specimens of two healthy children in Papua New Guinea on May 9. The detection of wild poliovirus or vaccine-derived poliovirus, including f Read More...
Record gift gives hope to women with painful condition
Date of Posting: 21-05-2025
Women's health research in Australia has been given a record financial boost, paving the way for better diagnosis and treatment of a debilitating and historically ignored condition. UNSW Sydney will establish the Ainsworth Endometriosis Resear Read More...
WHO members vote in favour of global pandemic agreement
Date of Posting: 20-05-2025
Members of the World Health Organization have voted emphatically in favour of a potentially groundbreaking global treaty on improving pandemic preparedness. One hundred twenty-four countries in favour on Monday, after Slovakia called for a vote on Read More...
Fresh bid to solve causes behind eating disorders
Date of Posting: 20-05-2025
Elise Griffin still remembers when she first began restricting her food intake and increasing her workouts, after an offhand comment from a family member about her stomach. She was just 12 and quickly became hyper-critical of her body.[subscribe] Read More...
Global health body counts the cost of funding cuts
Date of Posting: 20-05-2025
People in at least 70 countries are missing out on medical treatment due to funding cuts to aid program, the World Health Organisation says, adding it also faces major financial challenges. "Patients are missing out on treatments, health faci Read More...
Biden diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer
Date of Posting: 19-05-2025
Former US president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Biden was seen by doctors last week after urinary symptoms and a prostate nodule were found, his office says.[subscribe] He was diagnosed with prostate Read More...
Hard to swallow health claims driving viral recipes
Date of Posting: 19-05-2025
From microwaveable protein lava cakes to cottage-cheese pizzas, foods once considered unhealthy now find an eager appetite among social media users. One purportedly healthy apple crumble recipe has racked up 9.1 million views on TikTok, while almo Read More...
Bird flu hits world's largest poultry exporter Brazil
Date of Posting: 18-05-2025
Brazil, the world's largest chicken exporter, has confirmed its first outbreak of bird flu on a poultry farm, triggering a country-wide trade ban from China and state-wide restrictions for other major consumers. The outbreak in southern Brazil Read More...
Residents to pursue class action over 'toxic tap water'
Date of Posting: 18-05-2025
Residents in a tourist hotspot want free tests for cancer-causing "forever chemicals" in their blood after a major investigation revealed they had been drinking from a contaminated water supply for decades. PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroal Read More...
Potential collapse forces worker mental health rethink
Date of Posting: 18-05-2025
Psychological injuries weighing on Australia's largest workers' compensation scheme have prompted bleak warnings it will collapse without reform. Businesses are shouldering the financial burden of multi-faceted mental illness contributors, Read More...
Cancer treatment, sunscreen benefits in banner study
Date of Posting: 16-05-2025
Breakthrough research around how atoms interact is being hailed as vital in discovering new medications including cancer treatments. Work conducted by the University of Sydney's nanoscience team has performed a quantum simulation of chemical d Read More...
Remoteness a risk factor amid rise in domestic killings
Date of Posting: 16-05-2025
The number of women being killed is on the rise, with those in rural areas far more likely to be admitted to hospital after assaults, often at the hands of an intimate partner. There were 63 homicides in 2022/23, up from 48 in 2017/18, according t Read More...
Where nurses and midwives can prescribe abortion drugs
Date of Posting: 15-05-2025
One of the last states to decriminalise abortion will expand access, bringing it into line with other jurisdictions and national advice. NSW will allow nurses and midwives to prescribe drugs for medical abortions, in line with guidelines from the Read More...
Australia records big bump in pregnancy heat-risk days
Date of Posting: 15-05-2025
Climate change has already added about 10 extra days a year of extreme heat deemed harmful for pregnant women in Australia. Darwin experienced a sharp 17-day jump in heat conditions threatening to pregnant people and newborns, the biggest increase Read More...
Liberal leader slams Americanisation of abortion debate
Date of Posting: 14-05-2025
Political leaders are lamenting the "Americanisation" of the debate around a legislative push to increase access to abortion pills in Australia's most populous state. The NSW parliament is examining an amended bill put up by Greens M Read More...
Helping Indigenous families navigate genomic health
Date of Posting: 14-05-2025
Being diagnosed with a genetic disease can be challenging for many people and their families, but it is hoped new resources will help them feel more empowered and less alone. After working with First Nations communities over a decade, National Cen Read More...
Illuccix China Phase 3 Study Completes Enrolment
Date of Posting: 13-05-2025
Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: TLX, NASDAQ: TLX, "Telix", "the Company") today announces that the pivotal Phase 3 registration study of TLX591-CDx (Illuccix®, Kit for the preparation of 68Ga-PSMA-11) for prostate cancer i Read More...
Trump order demands US medicine industry cuts prices
Date of Posting: 13-05-2025
US President Donald Trump has signed a wide-reaching executive order directing drug makers to lower the prices of their medicines to align with what other countries pay that analysts and legal experts say could be difficult to implement. The order Read More...
New tool to improve diagnosis of lifelong condition
Date of Posting: 13-05-2025
New guidelines will help to reduce stigma and improve access to diagnosis and services for a lifelong disability in Australia, researchers say. Arising from prenatal exposure to alcohol, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) can cause difficultie Read More...
Why schools hold the key to a healthier Australia
Date of Posting: 12-05-2025
Health and education have traditionally been treated as separate policy areas in Australia, with one focused on treating illness and the other on academic performance. However, a growing body of research confirms what many teachers, parents and healt Read More...
How physiotherapy is supporting Australians with long COVID and post-viral fatigue
Date of Posting: 12-05-2025
The effects of COVID-19 have been felt across all areas of life, but for some Australians, the impact continues well beyond the initial illness. A growing number of people are living with long COVID, a condition that can cause fatigue, breathlessness Read More...
Weight-loss jab helps shed more kilos than rival
Date of Posting: 12-05-2025
Weight-loss jab Mounjaro helps people with obesity shed significantly more weight than rival Wegovy, research suggests. A study pitching the drugs against each other found Mounjaro was superior when it came to shedding kilograms and losing inches, Read More...
Healing art: medical scans get a cultural makeover
Date of Posting: 12-05-2025
Having to travel hundreds of kilometres for medical care is a common occurrence in many of Australia's regional and remote regions. But in the WA gold-mining town of Kalgoorlie, an Indigenous co-owned medical imaging business is on a mission t Read More...
Early night could have killed heart attack victim
Date of Posting: 12-05-2025
The setting sun piercing through his windscreen was making Chris Harrison's headache worse. The Melbourne council officer was driving home early from work after twice bursting into unexpected tears.[subscribe] He thought he needed to get to Read More...
Bid ensure abortion access reopens political rifts
Date of Posting: 09-05-2025
Nurses and midwives would be able to prescribe drugs for medical abortions in a plan causing rifts within major parties and prompting a former prime minister to speak out. The bill from a Greens MP that aims to overcome abortion deserts across NSW Read More...
Serious concern at high diabetes rate among Indigenous
Date of Posting: 09-05-2025
Early intervention is key to tackling disproportionate rates of diabetes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, health organisations say. Almost one in six Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults have diabetes, according to Read More...
Grand Pharma's global innovative product STC3141 reached the clinical endpoint in the Phase II
Date of Posting: 08-05-2025
The results showed that the SOFA scores of the drug treatment groups on the 7th day were significantly lower than those of the baseline, especially in the high-dose group, where the decrease was significantly greater than that in the placebo g Read More...
Mpox Resurgence in 2024: Understanding WHO's Strategic Response
Last Updated: 07-05-2025
Humanity often has a short memory, with pandemics happening rarely and often in far-flung developing nations. If COVID-19 has had any benefits, hopefully, it will remind this generation that pandemics are very real threats that can happen anywhere an Read More...
Spike in flu cases sparks plea over 'dire' rate of jabs
Date of Posting: 07-05-2025
Australians are being warned to get vaccinated before a possible severe flu season after an unusual spike in cases across the country. Low vaccination rates have reflected a "lack of concern" for influenza but Australians have been told Read More...
How physical and mental health connect
Date of Posting: 06-05-2025
Jamila Rizvi and Rosie Waterland are all too familiar with what it means to be unwell. Rizvi was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour at 31. Eight years on she navigates complex disabilities due to her acquired brain injury.[subscribe] Waterland, Read More...
Veterans still fighting demons long after their service
Date of Posting: 05-05-2025
Paul Warren remembers being flung in the air in the rough mountainous terrain of the Baloch Valley in Afghanistan. Then he looked down to see his severed leg.[subscribe] "I shifted my foot in the wrong place and it initiated an (improvised Read More...
Tunnel diggers are facing a 'full-blown disease crisis'
Date of Posting: 05-05-2025
Fine dust from massive tunnelling projects is exposing tunnellers working with heavy machinery deep underground to deadly diseases, an inquiry has been told. Silica dust exposure can lead to workers developing silicosis - an incurable, debilitatin Read More...
Court approves payout after COVID-19 aged care deaths
Date of Posting: 04-05-2025
Families of those who passed away in a deadly COVID-19 outbreak are set to be compensated months after an aged care operator's failings were exposed. As the virus ripped through Sydney's Newmarch House over 65 days from April to June 2020, Read More...
Fertility experts urge the creation of registries to safeguard donor conception practices
Date of Posting: 04-05-2025
Gamete donation has accelerated around the world in the past decade driven in part by the emergence of commercial sperm and egg banks and a growing recognition of the validity of this form of family building among single women in some countries. H Read More...
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...
