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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...
Families given a voice to escalate concerns in hospital
Date of Posting: 02-09-2024
Families worried their concerns about patients' deteriorating health are not being heard by hospital staff will be given a voice to escalate their concerns to an advocate. The Victorian government on Sunday launched the Urgent Care Helpline se Read More...
UNICEF issues emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines
Date of Posting: 01-09-2024
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has issued an emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines for crisis-hit countries in collaboration with the Gavi vaccine alliance, Africa CDC and the World Health Organization, the organisations said in a Read More...
Why you can expect to see more Aussie doctors using AI
Date of Posting: 01-09-2024
Next time you visit a doctor, a psychiatrist or even a vet, artificial intelligence could be listening to your concerns and taking notes. AI scribes, as the tools are known, are becoming more popular in Australian medical clinics as they promise t Read More...
Africa mpox outbreaks could be ended in six months
Date of Posting: 01-09-2024
The head of the World Health Organisation believes the ongoing mpox outbreaks in Africa might be stopped in the next six months and says the agency's first shipment of vaccines should arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo within days. To Read More...
Weekend sleep in linked to lower heart disease risk
Date of Posting: 30-08-2024
People who "catch up" on lost sleep at weekends may potentially lower their risk of heart disease by up to 20 per cent, new research suggests. Data from more than 90,000 people in the UK suggests compensating for lack of sleep during the Read More...
Public versus Private -- the impact on midwives.
Last Updated: 30-08-2024
The role of midwives is critical for the successful birth of any baby, but how those duties are performed can be impacted by whether labour takes place in a private or public hospital. According to senior midwife, Claire McAteer, there are pros an Read More...
Sex discrimination chief chides Labor's LGBTQI backflip
Date of Posting: 29-08-2024
The sex discrimination commissioner is calling on the federal government to reverse a backflip and include LGBTQI people in the census but a Labor MP has raised concerns about it being "weaponised". Sex Discrimination Commissioner Anna C Read More...
Hospital CEO sues health boss over blocked renewal
Date of Posting: 29-08-2024
The boss of Melbourne's major children's hospital is suing the Victorian health department secretary for blocking her reappointment. Royal Children's Hospital chief executive Bernadette McDonald has launched a bid for the Supreme Court Read More...
Dire hospital staffing 'putting mothers at risk'
Date of Posting: 29-08-2024
Claims a baby died during understaffing at a major hospital and regular checks on mothers aren't being completed are being investigated by Tasmania's health department. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation has written to the dep Read More...
Doctor took patient and staff pics for sexual pleasure
Date of Posting: 28-08-2024
A junior doctor took intimate photos of patients and secretly filmed his colleagues getting changed at a major regional NSW hospital for sexual pleasure, court documents reveal. A worried mother was the first person to raise suspicions about Nicho Read More...
Mpox strain changing faster than expected
Date of Posting: 28-08-2024
Scientists studying the new mpox strain that has spread out of Democratic Republic of Congo say the virus is changing faster than expected, and often in areas where experts lack the funding and equipment to properly track it. That means there are Read More...
Healthcare Outsourcing Philippines: Cynergy BPO's Strategic Blueprint for Enhanced Patient Care in A
Last Updated: 28-08-2024
In an environment where the healthcare sector is being constantly reshaped by technological innovations and rigorous regulatory demands, healthcare organisations in Australia are increasingly embracing outsourcing as a crucial strategy to boost opera Read More...
The important role of midwives in C-section recovery and mastitis support.
Date of Posting: 27-08-2024
Research suggests that having a caesarean section can result in an increased risk of complications, both during and after birth, including breastfeeding. From providing personalised postpartum care, emotional support, wound care, newborn care to h Read More...
GP suspended for prescribing pills to addicted patient
Date of Posting: 27-08-2024
A doctor increased the dosage of sleeping pills to a patient despite knowing she was "doctor shopping" to get her hands on more of the addictive medicine, a tribunal has found. Melbourne general practitioner Michael Kozminsky was suspend Read More...
STI screening call after spike in unborn baby deaths
Date of Posting: 27-08-2024
An outbreak of a treatable sexually transmitted disease has led to a dramatic rise in the deaths of unborn babies. Doctors fear more congenital syphilis fatalities are likely in Queensland, sparking calls for an increase in sexually transmitted in Read More...
Tesamorelin Peptide: Speculative Research
Last Updated: 27-08-2024
Tesamorelin, a synthetic analog of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH), has captured the scientific community's attention due to its intriguing molecular properties and the theoretical impacts it might have on various physiological processes. Read More...
