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Alert for Japanese encephalitis outbreak
Date of Posting: 23-11-2022
Months of rain and flooding across large parts of NSW have created ideal conditions for an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis across the state. Agriculture Minister Dugald Saunders said mosquito numbers are expected to increase in the coming weeks. Read More...
NSW Nurses strike for 24 hours
Date of Posting: 23-11-2022
Nurses and midwives will walk off the job for 24-hours on Wednesday in the fourth such action this year over staffing and pay issues Rallies will be held across the state including Sydney's CBD, where union members will march along Macquarie S Read More...
US doctor defends 10-year-old's abortion
Date of Posting: 22-11-2022
An Indianapolis doctor who provided abortion drugs to a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio has defended her actions before a judge in an episode that drew attention in the weeks after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Dr. Caitlin Bernard Read More...
Aged care on brink of collapse
Date of Posting: 22-11-2022
Three in four aged care workers plan to quit within the next six months if they don't receive a hefty pay rise, bringing the sector already in crisis on the verge of collapse, a survey has revealed. The Health Services Union will on Tuesday re Read More...
Vic warned of disease-carrying mosquitoes
Date of Posting: 22-11-2022
Heavy rainfall and flooding has created prime breeding conditions for mosquitoes in Victoria, prompting authorities to issue a warning about serious diseases the insects carry. Increased breeding in inland and coastal areas means that while mosqui Read More...
Physios critical for long-COVID recovery
Last Updated: 21-11-2022
The APA has called on the Victorian government to improve access to physiotherapy for recovery of long COVID in response to the new COVID wave. Scott Willis, APA President, says long wait times, fragmented services and affordability factors signif Read More...
Five new variants in latest COVID-19 wave
Date of Posting: 21-11-2022
As COVID-19 cases again spike around Australia experts are hoping it will be a shorter, sharper wave that's in decline before Christmas. Australia officially recorded 75,590 cases of COVID last week, although with a decline in testing rates, t Read More...
Children as young as 10 self-harming
Date of Posting: 21-11-2022
Children as young as 10 are self-harming and suicide is being discussed among pupils in primary school playgrounds. More than 6000 adolescents aged 10-14 attended a NSW hospital emergency department for self-harm between 2014 and 2019 - with 2276 Read More...
WA seeks to modernise abortion laws
Date of Posting: 21-11-2022
Western Australians are being urged to have their say as the state government prepares to modernise the state's outdated abortion laws. Pregnancy termination laws have remained unchanged for almost 25 years, forcing some women to travel inters Read More...
Skin cancer advertising blitz launched
Date of Posting: 20-11-2022
A national $10 million summer skin cancer advertising blitz is ready for launch as new research shows Australian men are still not sun smart. Australia has one the highest rates of skin cancer in the world, with an estimated two in three people di Read More...
Top doctors warn of medical 'dark age'
Date of Posting: 20-11-2022
Australia needs to establish its own Centre for Disease Control to help lead a global coordinated effort to prevent a looming medical "dark age", doctors say. The nation's peak medical association warns superficial cuts could be dead Read More...
SA nurses accept new pay package
Date of Posting: 20-11-2022
South Australian nurses have accepted a new enterprise agreement that includes pay hikes and bonuses. The deal includes three per cent wage increases in each of the next three years along with two additional payments of $1500 in the first two year Read More...
COVID-19 cases soar amid fourth wave
Date of Posting: 19-11-2022
COVID-19 cases are soaring across Australia as another wave of the virus prompts authorities to appeal for public help in stemming infections. Cases in the nation's three most populous states have more than doubled in the space of two weeks, a Read More...
Menopause health hubs open in NSW
Date of Posting: 19-11-2022
The one-in-two women who experience significant menopause symptoms will soon have access to better treatment across NSW. The state government has committed about $40 million in the next four years to create four hubs offering specialised care, wit Read More...
Three measles cases detected in Victoria
Date of Posting: 19-11-2022
Victoria has recorded three new confirmed cases of measles in returned overseas travellers. The cases are all within one family, with two people infectious during a return flight from Singapore to Melbourne.[subscribe] They immediately sought m Read More...
HELP debt wiped for rural and remote NPs
Date of Posting: 18-11-2022
The Federal Government has announced that from November, nurse practitioners and doctors who live and work in rural and remote Australia will have their HELP debt wiped. The program is set to improve employment and retention of practitioners in ru Read More...
Half a million long COVID cases
Date of Posting: 17-11-2022
More than half a million Australians could experience long COVID with 110,000 of them suffering "significant impacts", according to modelling. Researchers from the University of Tasmania and Deakin University used three different models Read More...
Nasal vaccines could 'change' pandemic
Date of Posting: 17-11-2022
A nasally delivered COVID-19 vaccine developed in Australia is promising much better protection against the virus. Testing of the new nasal spray vaccine resulted in zero COVID transmission among mice, researchers from Sydney University and the Ce Read More...
Aussie relationships feeling the pressure
Date of Posting: 17-11-2022
Work, study, money, mental health and the pandemic have been the greatest challenges to Australian relationships, but many people do not seek help when problems arise. One in four people said work or study impacted their most important relationshi Read More...
4 Ways To Advance Your Career In The Field Of Mental Healthcare
Last Updated: 16-11-2022
Some individuals progress in their careers more quickly than others do. Perhaps you’re a mental healthcare professional who is hoping to discover how to hit the fast track to success in your career. If so, consider the following 4 ways you migh Read More...
NSW nurses to walk off job again
Date of Posting: 16-11-2022
Nurses across NSW will stop work again next week amid concerns about 'dangerous' staffing levels. Thousands of nurses will strike for 24 hours from 7am on November 23, leaving a skeleton staff in all public hospitals and health services.[s Read More...
Poppy seeds recalled amid poisonings
Date of Posting: 16-11-2022
A number of poppy seed products have been recalled after a series of poisonings around the country. Consumers are also being urged to check their pantries for seeds linked to the incidents after at least 12 people who developed unusual and severe Read More...
Date of Posting: 16-11-2022
New modelling has South Australia about a week away from the peak in COVID-19 cases during the current wave. Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier says the latest data suggests virus numbers should be declining in time for Christmas.[subscri Read More...
Program seeks to help 'traumatised' nurses
Date of Posting: 16-11-2022
Nurses and midwives across the country will soon have access to specialised mental health support services. The $25.2 million program has been modelled on a Victorian system operating since 2006, which will see the Department of Health partner wit Read More...
Experts rule out third COVID booster shot
Date of Posting: 16-11-2022
Australians won't be able to receive a third COVID-19 vaccine booster until at least next year. The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) said it did not recommend the rollout of a fifth vaccine dose, or third booster, de Read More...
NSW healing centre inspired by Grace Lynch
Date of Posting: 15-11-2022
A world-first residential treatment centre in NSW will be a "place of healing" for children whose loved ones have been murdered. The centre, to be managed by fellow victims, is named after Grace Lynch, the mother of Sydney nurse and beau Read More...
New COVID vaccine approved as cases spike
Date of Posting: 15-11-2022
Medical authorities have approved a new COVID-19 vaccine for use in Australia that offers protection from two strains of the virus. As Australia deals with a fourth rise of COVID cases, the country's leading vaccine advisory body has approved Read More...
Women's clinics promised by Vic Labor
Date of Posting: 15-11-2022
Women across Victoria will have access to new, specialist health clinics if Labor is re-elected on November 26. Premier Daniel Andrews announced on Tuesday that $71 million will go towards improving women's health by launching 20 comprehensive Read More...
Supporting all nurses to take on their role in palliative care
Last Updated: 14-11-2022
Demand for care at the end of life is set to shape our health care system. What is required and makes a difference is encapsulated in palliative care. This is more than providing adequate relief for physical symptoms such as pain, and more than termi Read More...
Ancient practice helping to heal Kimberley
Date of Posting: 14-11-2022
Deep in Western Australia's outback, in a region haunted by trauma and loss, a group of elderly women carry out an ancient healing practice. Red ochre is rubbed into a patient's knee as they sing a powerful song, their arthritic hands work Read More...
GP fury over NSW pharmacy 'game-changer'
Last Updated: 14-11-2022
NSW residents will soon be able to get vaccinations and some treatments prescribed at their local chemist, in a move doctors' groups have slammed as "madness". It mirrors a similar trial underway in Queensland, and practices in other Read More...
Ebola spreads to Uganda's east
Date of Posting: 14-11-2022
An Ebola case has been confirmed in Jinja in eastern Uganda, the first time the outbreak has spread to a new region of the country from central Uganda where cases have been confined. Authorities have been struggling to contain the highly infectiou Read More...
Diabetes treatment to be subsidised
Date of Posting: 14-11-2022
The next generation of insulin pumps needed by 130,000 Australians with type 1 diabetes are to be made available at a fraction of the thousands of dollars a year they currently cost. Health Minister Mark Butler says access to the Omnipod DASH Insu Read More...
China's COVID cases highest since April
Date of Posting: 14-11-2022
China has reported its largest tally of new COVID-19 infections since late April, a day after Beijing unveiled a spate of measures, including shorter quarantines, to ease the impact of its heavy-handed zero-COVID policy. The stringent measures had Read More...
Qld entering fourth COVID-19 wave
Date of Posting: 10-11-2022
Queenslanders are being advised to wear face masks as the state enters its fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitalisations have more than doubled to 205 in the past week, while 73 people have died and 21,761 new cases have been recorded sin Read More...
COVID-19 crashed wedding plans in 2021
Date of Posting: 10-11-2022
After putting their weddings on hold during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Australian couples were keen to get their happily ever after last year, but ongoing restrictions led to disappointment and more cancelled nuptials. More than 89,000 couples go Read More...
Few services for Qld kids exposed to DV
Date of Posting: 10-11-2022
An increase in the number of young people on supervision orders in Queensland comes as a new report identifies a lack of support for children exposed to domestic violence. The state is failing to act proactively on the "intergenerational tran Read More...
Vic nurses, midwives pledged sign-on bonus
Date of Posting: 09-11-2022
Newly graduated nurses and midwives would be lured into the public health system with a $5000 sign-on bonus under a Labor election promise, as the coalition earmarks $66 million for surgery technology. Speaking at the Australian Nursing and Midwif Read More...
Qld public health workers seek wage talks
Date of Posting: 09-11-2022
Frontline Queensland health staff, including doctors, health practitioners and administrative staff, have accused the state government of stalling wage talks. Employment agreements for crucial staff including doctors, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Read More...
Fresh COVID wave on the way, experts warn
Date of Posting: 09-11-2022
A recent spike in COVID-19 cases brought on by the new Omicron variant XBB could trigger a fresh wave across the country, health authorities have warned. Chief Medical Officer, Paul Kelly said the government is on alert for rising case numbers and Read More...
