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World-first treatment boosts prostate cancer survival
Date of Posting: 14-02-2025
Firefighter Patrick Fitzell was the picture of health until the day he started having trouble going to the bathroom. His wife convinced him to go for a "man check" which eventually led to a prostate cancer diagnosis, a move from New Zeal Read More...
Resignations puts private mental health care in play
Date of Posting: 14-02-2025
Sending mentally unwell patients for involuntary treatment in private hospitals remains on the table, after more than 110 public psychiatrists quit. The mental health doctors were among 206 of the 292-strong NSW workforce to threaten to quit in Ja Read More...
More doctors go bush, but hospitals still squeezed
Date of Posting: 14-02-2025
Emergency departments at regional hospitals are under immense pressure, despite more specialist doctors working in the bush. There has been a 75 per cent increase in the proportion of emergency medicine specialists working in rural and remote area Read More...
ANMF's vision for 2025 --transforming healthcare through workforce reform and support
Date of Posting: 13-02-2025
In 2025, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) is focused on enacting transformative changes aimed at improving the conditions for nurses, midwives, carers, and students, all while addressing the community's healthcare needs. Bui Read More...
Ozempic shows some promise for alcohol use disorder
Date of Posting: 13-02-2025
Novo Nordisk's blockbuster GLP-1 diabetes drug Ozempic led to improvements in some measures of alcohol use disorder in a small trial, US researchers say. The 48 participants in the nine-week trial all had moderately severe alcohol use disorder Read More...
Doctors fear health fallout from nuclear energy plans
Date of Posting: 12-02-2025
Doctors have warned of no "safe" level of radiation from a proposed network of nuclear reactors as battlelines are drawn for the federal election. Similar to other nuclear-powered nations, Australians living within a certain radius of a Read More...
Reason 'lazy' teens can't get up for school revealed
Date of Posting: 12-02-2025
Laziness may not be behind Australian teenagers' chronic sleepiness despite one-third of a parents believing the myth. Research by The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne released on Wednesday shed light on the incorrect stereotypes fac Read More...
Woman's alcohol death prompts calls for delivery reform
Date of Posting: 12-02-2025
Alcohol delivery services could be restricted after a woman died from alcohol poisoning, with a coroner finding she had more than 300 alcohol products delivered in the six months to her death. Kathleen Arnold, 30, was found dead by her mother in t Read More...
Gender bias in healthcare guidelines is failing women
Date of Posting: 11-02-2025
Australian women are being let down by a lack of consideration for gender and sex in healthcare guidelines, leading to entrenched gender inequities at the highest levels of the health system. From medical emergencies such as heart attacks and stro Read More...
Drop in immunisation rates hits vaccine-maker's revenue
Date of Posting: 11-02-2025
Revenue from CSL's flu vaccine-making business dropped sharply in the first half of the financial year amid a significant fall in immunisation rates, particularly in the US. CSL Seqirus brought in revenue of $US1.66 billion ($2.6 billion) in t Read More...
Five bucks an hour may solve crisis in disability care
Date of Posting: 11-02-2025
Disability workers are leaving in droves, with advocates calling for a $5 an hour pay rise to reverse a major workforce crisis. Australia already has a disability staff shortfall of 100,000 positions, which only threatens to worsen as one in four Read More...
Trauma influenced mum on home birth before baby's death
Date of Posting: 10-02-2025
A woman whose baby died days after a home birth gone wrong had resisted labour at hospital because of a previous traumatic experience with her eldest child. Coroner Dimitra Dubrow will hold an inquest into the death of a six-day old baby, known as Read More...
Benefits of publishing pill testing data outweigh risks
Date of Posting: 10-02-2025
The results of pill testing trials and data behind drug warnings must be made public so more people can avoid highly dangerous substances. That's the verdict from a study into how the benefits of drug checking overseas can be rolled out in Aus Read More...
US health clinics grapple with federal funding squeeze
Date of Posting: 10-02-2025
President Donald Trump's executive orders have begun to disrupt patient care in the United States, as some providers cannot access essential federal funding, according to interviews with a dozen healthcare providers and policy advocates. Facil Read More...
Cost relief hailed as right prescription for menopause
Date of Posting: 09-02-2025
Government-subsidised access to hormone therapy for menopausal women will make a "meaningful difference" to the lives of countless sufferers, experts say. Three menopausal hormone therapies - Estrogel Pro, Estrogel and Prometrium - will Read More...
Live poultry markets in NYC, suburbs shut over bird flu
Date of Posting: 09-02-2025
Authorities in New York state have temporarily closed all live poultry markets in New York City and three suburban counties after detecting bird flu at seven markets within the past week. The virus has wiped out more than 156 million chickens, tur Read More...
Harvest celebrates native grains in community hands
Date of Posting: 09-02-2025
Gathering native grains in the northwest of NSW has become an annual festival, a space to yarn, and a chance to bring community together with university researchers. Grains were harvested from fields in Narrabri, NSW, then turned into seeds, groun Read More...
Study Finds Full COVID-19 Vaccination Reduces Risk of Cardiovascular Outcomes
Last Updated: 07-02-2025
As the pandemic rapidly spread to almost every corner of the world, immunologists worked to develop a vaccine that could handle the Coronavirus on a massive scale. As research continues to highlight how mRNA vaccines reduce the risk of infection, the Read More...
Cautious relief after nation wipes out bird flu strain
Date of Posting: 06-02-2025
A deadly bird flu strain has been eradicated from Australian shores, but egg farmers aren't feeling a blanket sense of relief. More than 1.8 million birds were killed in a quest to rid the nation of the disease after Victoria, New South Wales Read More...
Call for action to stop dementia cases doubling
Date of Posting: 06-02-2025
When Pam Eade started relying on her husband to finish her sentences she chalked it up to the familiarity that comes with 40 years together. She wasn't worried until a friend pulled her aside to express concern.[subscribe] Many doctors appo Read More...
Nurses join psychs demanding urgent mental health boost
Date of Posting: 06-02-2025
Nurses are throwing their weight behind psychiatrists' push for a pay rise, fearing patients will die unless public hospital mental health services are seriously improved. The mass resignation of NSW public-sector psychiatrists - part of a coh Read More...
Fake nurse's web of lies lands him $4000 fine
Date of Posting: 05-02-2025
A man who faked nursing qualifications and attempted to work at a rehab serving First Nations people has been hit with a $4000 fine. Amosa Talau Taulaga studied nursing but did not complete his degree and has never been registered as a nurse or in Read More...
Insurance premium hike needs to be justified
Date of Posting: 05-02-2025
Any looming rise in health insurance premiums would be "proportionate", the health minister says, following fears of a large increase. Data from comparison business Compare Club has shown a projected rise for 2025 of six per cent, up fro Read More...
Booze companies failing to display pregnancy warnings
Date of Posting: 05-02-2025
Beverage companies have been accused of dodging their responsibility to warn consumers of the dangers of drinking alcohol while pregnant. More than a third (37 per cent) of alcohol products on Australian shelves do not have government-mandated pre Read More...
Probe sparks fears for trans patient's mental health
Date of Posting: 04-02-2025
At 13, Clare's child revealed she didn't feel like she belonged in her body. "She said 'mum, I sometimes feel girly, but I know I'm a boy like this but I don't feel right'," Clare told AAP.[subscribe] Fearing f Read More...
A country practice luring health workers to the bush
Date of Posting: 04-02-2025
As a rural speech pathologist, Saffron Foy treats whoever comes through the door. She has helped babies with feeding problems, school kids with speech difficulties, brain injury victims, stroke patients and people in their 90s struggling to commun Read More...
WHO proposes budget cut after US exit, defends its work
Last Updated: 04-02-2025
World Health Organization member states will discuss cutting part of its budget by $US400 million ($A651 million) in light of President Trump's move to withdraw the United States, its biggest government funder, from the agency, a document shows. Read More...
Puberty blockers and trans kids' care to be reviewed
Date of Posting: 02-02-2025
Australia's peak medical body will review the health care provided to transgender and gender-diverse children as the federal government attempts to stall the banning of puberty blockers in some parts of the country. The review led by the Natio Read More...
'Frightening' wait times for psychiatric patients
Date of Posting: 02-02-2025
Patients are waiting nearly four days in emergency departments for dedicated mental health beds and are increasingly being treated in general wards, in developments psychiatrists have labelled as frightening. The resignation of 55 NSW public-secto Read More...
Call for funding boost after shocking blood cancer rise
Date of Posting: 31-01-2025
Blood cancer has been dubbed Australia's silent killer after a shocking rise in cases prompted calls for more prevention and early detection research. The disease is on track to become the country's most common and deadly cancer in a decad Read More...
One dead as Uganda confirms outbreak of Ebola
Date of Posting: 31-01-2025
Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the capital Kampala, with the first confirmed patient dying from the disease, the health ministry said. The patient, a nurse at the Mulago referral hospital in the capital, had initially s Read More...
Chinese herbalist guilty after diabetic patient dies
Date of Posting: 31-01-2025
A Chinese herbalist described as hostile and self-serving has been found guilty of professional misconduct after a diabetic patient he told to stop taking western medicine died. Yun Sen Luo, 59, had been practising Chinese herbal medicine and acup Read More...
Pelvic floor disorders in sports -- a silent barrier
Date of Posting: 30-01-2025
Pelvic floor dysfunction is a common yet rarely discussed issue in the sports world. One of the most prevalent conditions is urinary incontinence, affecting about one in three women across all sports. In high-impact disciplines like gymnastics, tramp Read More...
Trump pick RFK rejects 'anti-vaccine' label in hearing
Date of Posting: 30-01-2025
Robert F Kennedy Jr, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the top US health agency, has come under attack for his views on vaccines at a contentious Senate confirmation hearing, with one senior Democrat saying he embraced conspiracy theories and Read More...
Disability reforms 'need leadership, action'
Date of Posting: 30-01-2025
Reforms to improve the lives of disabled people experiencing homelessness need political leadership and action, advocates say, with the vulnerable group targeted in a new plan. The Disability Strategy, which acts as a framework for policy commitme Read More...
Trialling ways to reduce dementia in the Torres Strait
Date of Posting: 29-01-2025
Australians with disabilities experiencing homelessness will be prioritised as the government commits to disability reforms, months after a scathing royal commission into the sector. The Disability Strategy, which acts as a framework for policy co Read More...
Disability services reforms target homelessness
Date of Posting: 29-01-2025
Australians with disabilities experiencing homelessness will be prioritised as the government commits to disability reforms, months after a scathing royal commission into the sector. The Disability Strategy, which acts as a framework for policy co Read More...
Young trans patients denied hormone therapy amid probe
Date of Posting: 29-01-2025
A landmark decision to block hormone therapies for young trans patients will cause "immeasurable trauma", critics warn. Queensland's Liberal National government has been accused of pandering to prejudice after becoming the first in A Read More...
Ten-year national road safety plan 'wildly off-track'
Last Updated: 28-01-2025
An ambitious plan to halve the number of Australian road deaths is in tatters, with a fourth consecutive national toll increase marking the worst result since the advent of seatbelts. Some 1300 people were killed on the nation's roads in 2024, Read More...
China bans slew of livestock imports over disease fears
Date of Posting: 28-01-2025
China has prohibited imports of sheep, goat, poultry and even-toed ungulates from African, Asian and European countries due to outbreaks of livestock diseases such as sheep pox, goat pox and foot-and-mouth-disease. The ban, which also includes pro Read More...
