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Indigenous communities pushing back against eye disease
Date of Posting: 10-10-2024
The prevalence of a highly infectious eye disease among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children has declined by 87 per cent, data shows. Active trachoma among Indigenous children aged five to nine from at-risk communities was 1.8 per cent i Read More...
Time for a check-up: hospitals not yet climate ready
Date of Posting: 09-10-2024
Australia's hospitals should switch to safer, cheaper clean energy as part of a nationwide health response to climate change, experts say. An all-electric hospital would use 100 per cent renewable energy - not gas or diesel - for heating, cook Read More...
Not child's play: parents' mental health fears for kids
Date of Posting: 09-10-2024
There has never been a tougher time for young Australians navigating adolescence and early adulthood, with eight of out 10 family members fearing for their mental health. An inaugural survey by national foundation headspace quizzed 2059 family mem Read More...
Bulk-billing incentives can't stop GP visits cost rise
Date of Posting: 08-10-2024
Australians are being charged more for a trip to the doctor, despite a tripling of bulk-billing incentive payments. An annual survey of more than 3000 GPs and GPs in training by the Royal Australian College of GPs shows the average fee for a 20-mi Read More...
Doctor dedicated to Indigenous people's 'genetic story'
Date of Posting: 06-10-2024
Alex Brown was all set to become an engineer when his older sister convinced him to take a different path. While still in high school, Professor Brown went to visit his sister at university where she was studying medicine.[subscribe] "She Read More...
Shame a barrier as many delay help for mental health
Date of Posting: 06-10-2024
More than one in five Australians feel too ashamed to seek professional support for mental health issues, with the cost of living and accessibility of care contributing to some waiting up to a decade before they get help. A recent survey has revea Read More...
Aussie women say they're not educated on contraception
Date of Posting: 04-10-2024
The vast majority of Australian women fear they have insufficient education on contraception despite more than two thirds opting to use some form of birth control. The fresh insight has been released by Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care Read More...
Rwanda's Marburg fever deaths rise to 11, source probed
Date of Posting: 04-10-2024
Marburg haemorrhagic fever has killed 11 people in Rwanda, health authorities say, as the country continues to investigate the source of an outbreak first traced among patients in health facilities. There are 36 confirmed cases of the disease that Read More...
Many aged care providers are missing mandatory targets
Date of Posting: 03-10-2024
Mandatory aged-care standards are slipping at some facilities, with peak bodies worried the needs of elderly people are not being met. New federal government data shows just 40 per cent of aged-care providers met mandatory targets for total minute Read More...
More injecting rooms needed as overdose deaths persist
Date of Posting: 03-10-2024
More medically supervised injecting rooms are needed across Melbourne, advocates say, as figures reveal overdose deaths remain at near-record highs. In 2023, 547 Victorians fatally overdosed - three fewer than the state's deadliest year on rec Read More...
Marburg virus feared in Germany as two hospitalised
Date of Posting: 03-10-2024
Two people have been hospitalised with the suspected Marburg virus in Hamburg after at least one returned from treating patients with infectious diseases abroad, German authorities say. The pair are being medically examined under the assumption th Read More...
Vaping flavours that appeal to kids go up in smoke
Date of Posting: 02-10-2024
Vapes will only be available from behind the counter at pharmacies under changes to stop younger generations being hooked on nicotine. Reforms coming into effect from Tuesday will allow people able to buy vapes from chemists without a prescription Read More...
Banning kids from social media could cause greater harm
Date of Posting: 02-10-2024
Banning children from social media wouldn't remove risks to their mental health and could rob them of an important social and emotional lifeline, experts have told a federal inquiry. Representatives from six health organisations including Reac Read More...
Insurers accused of robbing public on hospital costs
Date of Posting: 30-09-2024
Private health insurers are failing to pay their fair share of the bill for public-hospital stays, costing NSW taxpayers $140 million each year, the state government says. But the industry has in turn accused the state of trying to roll out a &quo Read More...
GP visit costs rise despite increase in health funding
Date of Posting: 30-09-2024
Patients are forking out more money to see the GP despite incentive payments for bulk billing being tripled. The Royal Australian College of GPs Health of the Nation survey found one in four doctors are bulk billing more consults after the Albanes Read More...
Rwanda confirms cases of Marburg viral disease
Date of Posting: 29-09-2024
Rwanda has confirmed its first cases of Marburg disease, a viral hemorrhagic fever that can cause death among some patients, the country's health ministry says. It said in a statement that it was investigating to determine the origin of infect Read More...
Weekend warriors may be fighting fit against illness
Date of Posting: 27-09-2024
Exercising only at the weekends is enough to lower the risk of developing more than 200 health conditions, from heart disease and mood disorders to kidney issues and obesity, scientists say. A study of nearly 90,000 adults in the UK found people w Read More...
Local mpox cases surge after global emergency declared
Date of Posting: 27-09-2024
Mpox cases have surged across Australia, swelling from a handful to hundreds in the space of a few months. More than 600 cases have been notified to federal authorities in the current reporting quarter, as of Friday, amid an explosion in the virus Read More...
Union fears LNP govt would remove abortion rights
Date of Posting: 27-09-2024
A Queensland union says a Liberal National Party government would strip women of abortion rights and reproductive healthcare options. But Opposition Leader David Crisafulli has ruled out reviewing the legislation in the first term of his governmen Read More...
Striking nurses to sit down with NSW premier over wages
Date of Posting: 26-09-2024
NSW Premier Chris Minns will wade into an escalating pay dispute with his state's 50,000 nurses and midwives after rebuffing earlier demands to address striking workers. At least 5000 nurses and midwives took to the streets on Tuesday over a r Read More...
'Have faith': boxer put trust in doctors before death
Date of Posting: 26-09-2024
On the way home from hospital for lingering headaches, George Diamond told his dad he was being overprotective and needed to have more faith in the doctors treating him. Two months later, the 18-year-old boxer died at the Alfred Hospital in Melbou Read More...
Sam Neill grateful for rare cancer drug, wonderful care
Date of Posting: 26-09-2024
Sam Neill admits he would not be alive if it weren't for the advancements in medicine to treat cancer. The Jurassic Park actor was in 2022 diagnosed with stage 3 angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a form of blood cancer, and underwent chemoth Read More...
Tiny cottage behind a powerful change in rural kids
Date of Posting: 25-09-2024
Next to imposing red-brick classrooms at a rural high school sits a quaint grey house with lush cottage gardens and a rainbow sign by the front door. Once a run-down principal's residence at Narromine High School, west of Dubbo in NSW, the hou Read More...
US to donate one million mpox vaccine doses to Africa
Date of Posting: 25-09-2024
The US will donate one million mpox vaccine doses and at least $US500 million ($A730 million) to African countries to support their response to the latest outbreak, a senior administration official says. United States President Joe Biden will make Read More...
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...
