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COVID-19 cases aboard cruise ship in WA
Date of Posting: 26-04-2022
A dozen people have contracted COVID-19 on one of the first cruise ships allowed back into Western Australia since the pandemic began. Ten passengers and two crew have tested positive aboard the Coral Discoverer, which arrived in Broome early on M Read More...
Anzac Day patrons urged to be COVID-safe
Date of Posting: 26-04-2022
With many jurisdictions preparing for the return of full-scale Anzac Day services after two COVID-disrupted years, Victoria’s health department has shared risk-mitigation tips. It recommends patrons wear a mask when unable to physically dist Read More...
Aged care pay rise case set to begin
Date of Posting: 26-04-2022
A push to increase aged care worker wages will move into the spotlight when hearings begin in the Fair Work Commission. The case by the Health Services Union, which begins on Tuesday, will seek to lift wages for workers in the sector by 25 per cen Read More...
The SHPA Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook essential for nurses during the pandemic
Last Updated: 26-04-2022
As the COVID-19 pandemic has evolved, the Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook (AIDH), which is developed by expert hospital pharmacists, has remained an essential companion for Australia’s nurses. In May 2020 amid the first wave of c Read More...
Veterans shouldn't suffer in silence
Date of Posting: 25-04-2022
Uncle Harry Allie spent more than three decades in the Royal Australian Air Force but was left struggling to hear when someone spoke - lip reading and straining his ear to follow conversations. And driving his wife to distraction with the TV volum Read More...
Stroke study probes gender disparity
Date of Posting: 25-04-2022
Stroke is Australia's third most common cause of death, with 55,000 people likely to suffer one each year. While the risk between the ages of 45 and 85 is one in four for men and one in five for women, the latter experience worse post-stroke d Read More...
Medicines implicated in anaphylaxis study
Date of Posting: 25-04-2022
Medications rather than insect bites, pollen or food triggers are a factor in more than one in eight presentations of potentially fatal anaphylaxis, researchers say. More than 11,500 Australians present to emergency departments after anaphylactic Read More...
New Ebola case confirmed in Congo
Date of Posting: 25-04-2022
A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, the National Institute of Biomedical Research says, four months after the end of the country's last outbreak. The case was detected in the city of Mbandaka, c Read More...
NSW finalises COVID school return plans
Date of Posting: 25-04-2022
Teachers and students will still be able to attend school if someone they live with contracts COVID-19 as NSW announces its plans for the return of school for the second term of the year. The changes to isolation requirements are in line with thos Read More...
Brits eye best and brightest Aussie ambos
Date of Posting: 25-04-2022
Already decimated by COVID-19 and under growing pressure to replenish a worn out front line, Australian ambulance services are about to lose some of their best and brightest replacements. Hundreds of desperately needed fresh troops are being targe Read More...
Cost of medicines a key election issue
Date of Posting: 23-04-2022
Health and community pharmacy peak bodies have formed a coalition urging parties to recognise medicine affordability as a key election issue. The Pharmacy Guild of Australia, the Australian Patients Association, Chronic Pain Australia and Musculos Read More...
Sydney surgeon struck off after two deaths
Date of Posting: 23-04-2022
A prominent Sydney surgeon who rushed operations on two patients who died has been deregistered for one year. Dr William Mooney also was found to have had a relationship with a third patient and lied about his failure to attend a drug test.[subscr Read More...
Dementia Australia launches new workforce training app
Date of Posting: 22-04-2022
Dementia Australia has launched a new app, called Ask Annie, which offers short, self-paced learning modules to help care workers refresh their skills and learn tips and tools to provide better care to people living with dementia. Ask Annie is now Read More...
The pain triggered by working from home
Date of Posting: 22-04-2022
It has been more than two years since Australians were told to pack up their desks and work from home, yet according to Osteopathy Australia, two-thirds of those who work remotely still do not have a dedicated, ergonomic home office space. Despite Read More...
Emotional welfare must be a focus of nurse education
Date of Posting: 22-04-2022
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the topics of burnout and compassion fatigue have been in the spotlight. And one emergency nurse has welcomed the attention these issues have received, adding that there needs to be even more focus on educati Read More...
Major funding boost for detecting diabetes in pregnancy in rural communities
Date of Posting: 22-04-2022
A ground-breaking project set up to protect the health of Aboriginal mothers and their families in rural communities by optimising the screening and management of hyperglycaemia in pregnancy has received a $3.2 million funding boost from the Medical Read More...
WA woman's hospital death investigated
Date of Posting: 22-04-2022
Independent experts will investigate the death of a woman who suffered a heart attack after waiting for care at a regional West Australian hospital. The woman, believed to be in her 70s, died on Tuesday after being taken by ambulance to the Bussel Read More...
NSW top doctor's advice to remain secret
Date of Posting: 22-04-2022
Advice given by the NSW chief health officer before changes were made to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions will remain secret until parliament orders its release. Premier Dominic Perrottet told a budget estimates hearing on Thursday that advice given Read More...
NSW paramedics escalating action
Date of Posting: 22-04-2022
NSW paramedics are ramping up industrial action in a bid to get better pay and resources allocated to the ambulance service in next month's state budget. Australian Paramedics Association NSW assistant secretary Alan O'Riordan says conditi Read More...
What COVID-19 restrictions are changing?
Date of Posting: 21-04-2022
RULES CHANGING IN VICTORIA FROM 11.59PM ON FRIDAY, APRIL 22: * Close contacts don't need to quarantine for seven days, as long as they wear a mask indoors, avoid "sensitive" settings and have at least five negative rapid tests over s Read More...
Coalition to fund $28m disability centre
Date of Posting: 21-04-2022
The federal government has pledged $28 million to improve health outcomes and address health inequities faced by people with intellectual disabilities. The funding will go towards establishing the National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disa Read More...
Mask mandates fall in Spain and US
Date of Posting: 21-04-2022
The requirement to wear face masks has come to an end in Spain and the United States, via a government announcement and a judicial ruling respectively, as five countries prepare to co-host the second Global COVID-19 Summit next month. Spain will l Read More...
Supporting nurses with a point-of-care guide to improve patient outcomes
Last Updated: 21-04-2022
In today’s evolving patient care environment, trust Lippincott® Solutions to help you improve team performance, increase clinical knowledge and support competency development to decrease variability of care and improve patient outcomes. Read More...
UK kids liver disease also in Europe, US
Date of Posting: 20-04-2022
Health officials say they have detected more cases of a mysterious liver disease in children that was first identified in the United Kingdom, with new infections spreading to Europe and the United States. Last week, UK officials reported 74 cases Read More...
Web program improves life after stroke
Date of Posting: 20-04-2022
Stroke survivors who participated in an online, interactive program suggesting healthy lifestyle options are showing improved health outcomes. Researchers found stroke survivors using the online service urging them to set health goals and monitor Read More...
Inquiry warned of too few GPs in rural NSW
Date of Posting: 20-04-2022
The number of doctors living and working in rural NSW has dropped by three-quarters in the last decade leaving residents in remote areas vulnerable, an inquiry has been told. In the last ten years, the number of GPs working in remote and rural NSW Read More...
Tas managing hospital COVID-19 outbreak
Date of Posting: 20-04-2022
A Tasmanian hospital ward has been closed to visitors and admissions after four patients tested positive to COVID-19. Other patients in the Launceston General Hospital ward have tested negative on PCR tests, but will be monitored.[subscribe] St Read More...
Clearer skies ahead as cruise ships return
Date of Posting: 20-04-2022
While industries around the world have suffered during the pandemic, few have been hit harder than the cruise line sector which is celebrating its long-awaited return to Sydney harbour. On Monday, luxury cruise ship Pacific Explorer became the fir Read More...
Navigating a challenging healthcare hiring market
Date of Posting: 20-04-2022
As we continue to emerge from two years of disruption, there’s a lot going on in the Australian job market. Unemployment is down, falling to its lowest level since 2008. Job ads are up and the highest on record in SEEK’s 25-year history. Read More...
PM promotes Ruston to health portfolio
Date of Posting: 18-04-2022
Scott Morrison has promoted Anne Ruston to the cabinet post of health if the coalition is successful at the may 21 election, but has declined to say who will replace her in the social services portfolio. The role of the health portfolio became vac Read More...
Cruise ships return after two-year ban
Date of Posting: 18-04-2022
Australian authorities are lifting a ban on cruise liners that's been in place since March 2020. NSW, Victoria and Queensland have outlined testing and vaccination requirements for passengers and crew in preparation for the ships to return.[su Read More...
New mines key to health, welfare
Date of Posting: 18-04-2022
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce says it is vital not to lose sight of how to pay for health and welfare as voters head to the polls on May 21. The incoming federal government will have a role in assessing at least three coal mines in Queenslan Read More...
COVID-19 deaths higher at weekends
Date of Posting: 17-04-2022
Global COVID-19 deaths on weekends have been higher compared to weekdays during the pandemic, a study has found. Researchers accepted that reporting delays could be a contributing factor, but said shortfalls in clinical staffing, capacity, and exp Read More...
Darwin port plan sparks health concerns
Date of Posting: 17-04-2022
A new Darwin port industrial hub spruiked by the deputy prime minister could have severe impacts on human health, a Northern Territory government environmental report says. Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce on Tuesday announced $1.5 billion to transf Read More...
Latest on worldwide coronavirus spread
Date of Posting: 16-04-2022
LONDON, RAW - ASIA-PACIFIC * Automakers in China may have to suspend production in May if suppliers in Shanghai and surrounding areas are not able to resume work, said He Xiaopeng, the CEO of Chinese electric-car maker Xpeng.[subscribe] * The C Read More...
Tally puts worldwide COVID cases at 500m
Date of Posting: 16-04-2022
Global COVID-19 cases have surpassed 500 million, according to a Reuters tally as the highly contagious BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron surges in many countries in Europe and Asia. The rise of BA.2 has been blamed for recent surges in China as well as Read More...
New COVID-19 sub-variant reaches Australia
Date of Posting: 16-04-2022
A new COVID-19 sub-variant has been detected in Victorian wastewater as virus case numbers across the country remain stubbornly high. More than 30,000 new infections were reported along with a further 27 virus-related deaths on Saturday morning, w Read More...
More COVID deaths in residential aged care
Date of Posting: 15-04-2022
There have been more COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes this year than the first two years of the pandemic combined. Data from the federal health department released this week showed 1088 people in residential aged care died so far in 2022.[subscrib Read More...
Vic, fed govts top up kids hospital appeal
Date of Posting: 15-04-2022
Volunteers returning to raise funds for Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital have been helped along with $4 million worth of lifelines thrown to the Good Friday Appeal. The federal government has contributed $2 million in a first-ever don Read More...
Researchers question plant-based diet
Date of Posting: 15-04-2022
Meat-free burger patties, nuggets and sausages are often marketed to consumers as being a healthy alternative to meat, but is plant-based really better for you? While eating vegetarian and swapping out animal products for legumes or grains is not Read More...
