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Vic kids returning to school get free RATs
Date of Posting: 08-07-2022
More free COVID-19 rapid antigen tests will be available at schools and early childhood centres across Victoria during terms three and four. Each student and staff member will be allocated three packs of five RATs per term, equating to a total of Read More...
Qld hospitals hunker down for virus peak
Date of Posting: 08-07-2022
Queensland's biggest hospitals have suspended non-urgent surgeries and other care ahead of the peak of the state's third COVID-19 wave. Another 13 people died with the virus on Friday and 714 people are being treated in hospital, with 17 i Read More...
COVID-19 health toll exposed in new report
Date of Posting: 08-07-2022
Three thousand more Australians died in the first two months of this year than expected, but it wasn't all down to the unfolding Omicron wave of COVID-19, a new study shows. Australia's health 2022, the 18th biennial health report released Read More...
Why Healthcare Professionals Are Flocking To Iceland
Last Updated: 07-07-2022
In recent years, healthcare professionals have been leaving their home countries in droves to pursue new careers in Iceland, a land of beautiful landscapes and hospitable people. The reason? The country’s growing healthcare industry is booming, Read More...
Second booster eligibility may be expanded
Date of Posting: 07-07-2022
Expanding eligibility for a fourth COVID-19 jab could leave those most vulnerable to the virus, including the elderly, behind in the broader vaccine rollout, a leading expert has warned. The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation met Read More...
Qld hospitals may halt elective surgeries
Date of Posting: 07-07-2022
Some elective surgeries may be suspended again in Queensland as the state government pleads with residents to get their booster jabs amid a third COVID-19 wave. Just under 700 public and private hospital patients have the virus and 7.6 per cent of Read More...
NSW warns of local monkeypox cases
Date of Posting: 07-07-2022
Monkeypox may be spreading in Australia after NSW found likely locally transmitted infections among the state's 11 confirmed cases. NSW Health says nine of the infections were probably acquired overseas but two may be local cases, which sugges Read More...
COVID boosters a matter of urgency
Date of Posting: 06-07-2022
Australia is expected to follow other parts of the world in expanding eligibility for a fourth COVID vaccine dose to the wider population. As the nation grapples with rising case numbers, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says immunisation experts w Read More...
NSW warned third COVID-19 peak on its way
Date of Posting: 06-07-2022
NSW is heading for a resurgence of COVID-19 cases driven by Omicron subvariants, as the state's health minister labels anyone who hasn't received three vaccine doses as "crazy". Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant expects the state& Read More...
Prostate overtakes breast cancer in Aust
Date of Posting: 06-07-2022
Prostate cancer is now the most common cancer diagnosed in Australia, overtaking breast cancer as the country's number one cancer. The news has been described as a wake-up call for all men, with medical professional raising concerns about the Read More...
NSW floods affect mental health connection
Date of Posting: 05-07-2022
Flooding across NSW has delayed the rollout of a national program to connect with people with experience in Australia's mental health and suicide prevention systems. The 34-stop Connections 2022 program was expected to kick off in Liverpool on Read More...
Tasmania extends free flu jab program
Date of Posting: 05-07-2022
Tasmania has extended its free flu vaccination program for a month amid a winter spike in infections. The state government on Monday announced the roll-out at GPs, pharmacies and state-run clinics will continue until July 31.[subscribe] "A Read More...
Gut bacteria breakthrough for IBD patients
Date of Posting: 05-07-2022
A major breakthrough has been made in the understanding of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, which may lead to more treatments for sufferers. More than 100,000 Australians live with IBD, a chronic condition with two main subtypes, Crohn's Disease an Read More...
Calls to lower age limits for fourth doses
Date of Posting: 04-07-2022
A fourth COVID vaccine dose should be offered to all Australians over 50 as a way to reduce the risk from rising virus infections across the country, an epidemiologist says. As Australia's death toll from the pandemic surpassed 10,000, infecti Read More...
Flu vaccine allergy over-diagnosed
Date of Posting: 04-07-2022
Severe adverse reactions to flu vaccines are sometimes over-diagnosed to anaphylaxis by physicians erring on the side of caution, a brief study published in the Medical Journal of Australia found. The Monash Health authors of the research letter r Read More...
Texas clinics halt abortions after ruling
Date of Posting: 04-07-2022
Clinics are shutting down abortion services in the nation's second-largest state after the Texas Supreme Court blocked an order briefly allowing the procedure to resume in some cases, the latest in legal scrambles taking place across the US follo Read More...
NSW reports century-first diphtheria case
Date of Posting: 03-07-2022
A toddler is in intensive care after contracting the first case of diphtheria of the throat in NSW in a century. Diphtheria is a contagious and potentially deadly bacterial infection. It affects the throat and tonsils in its most severe form, resu Read More...
High-impact workouts could stem dementia
Date of Posting: 03-07-2022
Australian scientists are gathering evidence that the more hot and sweaty you get when you exercise, the better your chances of staving off dementia. It has long been established that physical exercise goes a long way towards improving brain blood Read More...
Eating disorder register to ease recovery
Date of Posting: 03-07-2022
Eating disorder recovery advocates are hopeful an initiative to offer a suite of treatment options in a single register will boost support, particularly in regional areas. A national directory of eating disorder clinicians called connect*ed has be Read More...
Monkeypox symptoms different now
Date of Posting: 02-07-2022
Patients with monkeypox in the UK have noticeably different symptoms from those seen in previous outbreaks, according to researchers in London, raising concerns cases are being missed. Patients report less fever and tiredness and more skin lesions Read More...
US wants COVID vaccines for sub-variants
Date of Posting: 02-07-2022
The US Food and Drug Administration has recommended COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers change the design of their booster shots to combat coronavirus sub-variants. If authorised, the changes would mark the first major retooling of COVID vaccines, but Read More...
DIY cervical cancer test a 'game changer'
Date of Posting: 02-07-2022
A cervical cancer testing overhaul is coming to Australia that will allow more women to privately administer their own less invasive procedure. From Friday women aged 25 to 74 will be able to take a self-administered test in private at a GP clinic Read More...
Abortion bans blocked in Florida, Kentucky
Date of Posting: 01-07-2022
Judges in Florida and Kentucky have moved to block those states from enforcing bans or restrictions on abortion after the US Supreme Court last week overturned the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling that had established a nationwide right to the procedure. In Read More...
TGA paves way for under-fives vaccine
Date of Posting: 01-07-2022
Australia is a step closer to having COVID-19 vaccinations for children aged six months to five years, with Pfizer approved to submit an application with the medical regulator. The Therapeutic Goods Administration has granted a provisional determi Read More...
Monkeypox cases reported in children
Date of Posting: 01-07-2022
The World Health Organisation says "sustained transmission" of monkeypox worldwide could result in the virus beginning to move into high-risk groups like pregnant women, immunocompromised people and children. The WHO said on Wednesday it Read More...
Amazon curbs emergency contraceptives sale
Date of Posting: 30-06-2022
Amazon.com Inc has placed a temporary purchase limit of three units per week on emergency contraceptive pills, the company says. The move comes days after the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade ruling that recognised women Read More...
Australians biggest ice users, data shows
Date of Posting: 30-06-2022
Australians use more ice than people in parts of Europe and Asia, with the drug's highly addictive quality driving demand and consumption even during pandemic lockdowns, new data shows. The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission's was Read More...
Mental support for deployed ADF can vary
Date of Posting: 30-06-2022
It is unclear whether mental health support and services are adequately supplied to serving ADF personnel on deployment, a royal commission has been told. On the penultimate day of Townsville's block of hearings at the royal commission into de Read More...
Tas hospital's culture ignored suspicions
Date of Posting: 29-06-2022
A health staffer who worked alongside a male pedophile nurse at a Tasmanian hospital believes there was a culture among senior management of not talking about "challenging issues". An inquiry examining state government responses to child Read More...
SA rules out extending free flu jabs
Date of Posting: 29-06-2022
Free flu vaccines will not be extended beyond June in South Australia, despite calls for the jabs to be made available to everyone until the end of winter. The free vaccines were introduced at the beginning of the month in a bid to increase the nu Read More...
Call to harmonise Australian abortion laws
Date of Posting: 29-06-2022
Australia's "postcode lottery" of reproductive health access is being spotlighted in the wake of the US Supreme Court overturning federal abortion rights. The court's decision to overturn the Roe v Wade precedent from half a cent Read More...
Long-term health issues for 8m Aussies
Date of Posting: 28-06-2022
More than eight million Australians are living with long-term health conditions, two million of whom suffer mental health, arthritis or asthma. Women are more likely to report having a long-term health condition, with 34 per cent suffering at leas Read More...
Virus cases on the rise, 40 NSW deaths
Date of Posting: 28-06-2022
COVID-19 cases are again on the rise across Australia, with the latest Omicron sub-variant BA.4/BA.5 on track to become the major strain. Authorities say BA.4/BA.5 represented more than 30 per cent of specimens in NSW in the week ending June 18, u Read More...
SA to shut some vaccine clinics
Date of Posting: 28-06-2022
South Australia will close some of its mass COVID-19 vaccination clinics, allowing staff to return to the state's struggling public hospitals. Among those clinics to close is Adelaide's largest at the Wayville Showgrounds.[subscribe] At Read More...
'Vigilant' message from US abortion ruling
Date of Posting: 27-06-2022
The US Supreme Court's overturning of a landmark abortion decision is a reminder that people need to be vigilant in protecting their freedoms, Australia's minister for women says. The ruling against the 50-year-old Roe v Wade decision, whi Read More...
COVID-19 and Australia's unlearnt lessons
Date of Posting: 27-06-2022
On January 19, 1900 Dr Sinclair Gillies, an honorary physician at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, was asked to identify strange flu-like symptoms in a 33-year-old delivery driver. Arthur Paine's work had regularly brought him into c Read More...
Stigma a hurdle to treatment for addiction
Date of Posting: 27-06-2022
Taking the stigma out of addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder would have saved Baden Hicks two decades of pain and misery. The 36-year-old Melburnian, now a peer support worker at the Turning Point research and treatment centre, grappled w Read More...
Warning as Omicron sub-variant cases surge
Date of Posting: 26-06-2022
An Omicron sub-variant of COVID-19 that can evade vaccine immunity is on the rise in Victoria, with authorities warning it is on track to be the state's major strain in line with virus spread in NSW and Queensland. Traces of BA.4/BA.5 in Victo Read More...
Monkeypox not yet a health emergency
Date of Posting: 26-06-2022
Monkeypox is not yet a global health emergency, the World Health Organisation has ruled, although director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he is deeply concerned about the outbreak. There have been more than 3200 confirmed cases of monkeyp Read More...
App replaces sleeping pills for insomniacs
Date of Posting: 26-06-2022
Insomnia patients should ditch the drugs and sign up to an Australian-designed app to help them improve their sleep patterns. That's according to Britain's National Health Service (NHS), which has recommended Sleepio as a safe and effectiv Read More...
