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Managing The Risk Of Falls For Older Patients
Last Updated: 03-12-2021
Falls are common in older people and can not only cause injury but can also knock their confidence. In fact it is said that older people are 12 times more likely to suffer a fall than be involved in a pedestrian or motor accident. Further to this, Read More...
What is an Orthotist and Prosthetist?
Last Updated: 03-12-2021
Orthotists and prosthetists are Allied Health professionals who work in the prosthetic area of health care. An orthotist sees patients who need external devices to give them more mobility, such as a back brace for somebody suffering from scoliosis Read More...
Last Updated: 03-12-2021
A social worker is an Allied Health professional who helps people at times of crisis. Their clients may include families, students, hospital patients or the elderly. At young age people need more emotional support and care because they are in a de Read More...
Last Updated: 03-12-2021
Nursing as a career has come a long way from the 1800s. These days, nursing is one of the world’s most sought after professions. It can be a highly paid, exciting career. And nurses are in demand all over the world. W Read More...
What do Occupational Therapists do?
Last Updated: 03-12-2021
An occupational therapist is an Allied Health professional who can help people enhance their lives by helping them to improve their every day motor skills in order to do tasks that able bodied people take for granted. For example, if a person i Read More...
The burnout crisis is worsening - and not just due to COVID-19
Date of Posting: 03-12-2021
One doctor has opened up about the profound effects that burnout has had on her life, and has called for urgent action to support the frontline health workers we depend on - who are struggling more than we know. Dr Elizabeth Berryman, Founder and Read More...
SA hospitals face staff walkout
Last Updated: 02-12-2021
More than 100 workers at three Adelaide hospitals will walk off the job amid concerns over staffing levels and safety measures. Workers at the Flinders Medical Centre, the Repatriation General Hospital and the Noarlunga Hospital will take the acti Read More...
No new local cases of COVID-19 in Qld
Last Updated: 02-12-2021
No new local COVID-19 cases have emerged in Queensland, a day after a man tested positive on the Gold Coast. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the man is the only case to emerge after 10,349 tests in the 24 hours to 6.30am on Thursday.[subscribe] Read More...
Anti-vax flyer deceptive, NSW mayor says
Date of Posting: 02-12-2021
Clive Palmer's political party distributed anti-COVID-19 vaccine brochures made to look like official medical advice in the outback NSW town of Broken Hill, the town's mayor has told a parliamentary inquiry. The United Australia Party targ Read More...
Seventh Omicron case confirmed in NSW
Last Updated: 02-12-2021
A seventh returned traveller in NSW has been diagnosed with the Omicron COVID-19 variant and health authorities fear the person may have contracted the virus on their flight home, given they had not been in any of the southern African countries of co Read More...
New mental health facility for Melbourne
Date of Posting: 02-12-2021
Construction has begun on a new acute mental health facility in Melbourne. Premier Daniel Andrews and his deputy James Merlino visited the site of the 22-bed facility at the Royal Melbourne Hospital on Thursday.[subscribe] The new beds have bee Read More...
US reports first case of Omicron variant
Date of Posting: 02-12-2021
The United States has identified its first known case of Omicron, discovered in a fully vaccinated patient in California who travelled to South Africa, as scientists continue to study the risks the new COVID variant could pose. Public health offic Read More...
Cancer kills more poor people in Australia
Date of Posting: 01-12-2021
Australians living in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas are 40 per cent more likely to die from cancer, the latest government statistics show. People living in the least disadvantaged areas of Australia have a mortality rate of 130 in every 10 Read More...
Scientists developing 'exercise' in a pill
Last Updated: 01-12-2021
Australian scientists are attempting to make a pill containing many of the benefits of exercise. But it won't be medicine for lazy couch potatoes.[subscribe] The futuristic therapy is designed to help immobile patients unable to exert thems Read More...
Youth fear COVID, climate and inequality
Date of Posting: 01-12-2021
Nearly 70 per cent of young gender diverse Aussies feel they have been unfairly treated in this past year, highlighting an urgent need for support, Mission Australia's annual youth report has revealed. For the first time, the annual survey of Read More...
CQUni course reinforces Kieran's determination to create change in men's behaviour
Last Updated: 01-12-2021
Kieran Murphy wants to bring the scourge of domestic and family violence into the light and CQUniversity’s Graduate Certificate in Facilitating Men’s Behaviour Change is helping him achieve that goal. Kieran said his passion to create Read More...
Qld govt orders mental health inquiry
Last Updated: 30-11-2021
A "very concerning" increase in eating disorders among young people is among the issues expected to be investigated by an inquiry into Queensland's mental health services. The parliamentary review will look at how the health system i Read More...
Trying for a baby? Put down the wine
Last Updated: 30-11-2021
When Sophie and her husband knew they wanted to try for a baby, she knew what precautions to take. She stopped smoking a year before coming off contraception; started taking folate and pregnancy vitamin supplements; stopped eating pate and soft ch Read More...
Date of Posting: 30-11-2021
"Asking individual health care workers to stop the epidemic of violence is just like asking the lifesavers at the beach to stop the rising sea levels." That is the viewpoint of a Queensland PHD researcher addressing a 'wicked' an Read More...
Calls for cosmetic surgery regulation
Last Updated: 30-11-2021
More then 300 cosmetic surgeries in Australia have been botched in recent years, prompting calls for tighter regulations for doctors. The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) has raised concerns over doctors calling themselves Read More...
Omicron spreads, race is on for answers
Last Updated: 29-11-2021
The Omicron coronavirus variant is spreading around the world, with new cases found in the Netherlands, Denmark and Australia even as more countries impose travel restriction to try to seal themselves off. The World Health Organisation says it' Read More...
Australia to revisit booster shot timeline
Date of Posting: 29-11-2021
Australia is looking at bringing forward booster shots and tightening international border rules in a bid to contain the new Omicron COVID-19 variant. The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation will review the time frame for booster s Read More...
Nurse says St Basil's outbreak was 'chaos'
Last Updated: 29-11-2021
A former nurse at a Victorian aged care home where 45 residents died of COVID-19 has told an inquest she could never bring herself to work in the industry again. Milena Avramovic was the deputy director of nursing at St Basil's Home for the Ag Read More...
Mental health care lack in jails
Last Updated: 29-11-2021
The death of a First Nations prisoner has highlighted the ongoing shortfall in culturally appropriate mental health care in Queensland jails, a coroner has found. State Coroner Terry Ryan handed down his findings in Brisbane on Tuesday into the de Read More...
Give jabs to global poor before kids
Last Updated: 29-11-2021
As children and adolescents are at lower risk of severe COVID-19 disease, countries should prioritise adults and sharing vaccine doses with the COVAX program to bring supplies to poorer countries, the World Health Organisation says. Some rare case Read More...
Omicron situation unlike Delta or 2020
Last Updated: 29-11-2021
Scott Morrison has assured Australians the country is not facing the same sort of challenges it endured when the coronavirus first arrived in early 2020, as a new variant emerges. The prime minister says the emergence of Omicron is a fast-moving i Read More...
PBS treatment expanded to leukaemia
Last Updated: 28-11-2021
A treatment already on the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme will be expanded to help treat leukaemia. Listed Venclexta is being expanded for the treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia for use in combination with azacitidine, which Health Minister Greg Read More...
UNSW Sydney study busts fat burning myth
Date of Posting: 28-11-2021
A UNSW Sydney study published in Sports Medicine suggests that fat-loss is not only possible with strength training but is equal to the results achieved with cardio fitness. It's a myth-busting revelation that refutes the basic premise that to Read More...
Germany confirms first two Omicron cases
Date of Posting: 28-11-2021
Germany's first two cases of the Omicron variant have been confirmed in Munich, the Bavarian health minister says. Omicron, first detected in South Africa in November, has been classified as a "variant of concern" by the World Health Read More...
Vic has 1252 COVID cases, protests return
Date of Posting: 27-11-2021
Victoria has recorded 1252 COVID-19 cases and five deaths, as thousands gather in the state capital to protest vaccine mandates. It is the third consecutive weekend protesters have gathered in Melbourne's city centre and it comes a day after a Read More...
Omicron 'concerning': NSW Health Minister
Date of Posting: 27-11-2021
The new Omicron variant of the coronavirus is possibly even more transmissible than the Delta strain that sent NSW into a months-long lockdown, says the state's health minister. While cases of the new variant have not yet been identified in NS Read More...
What we know about virus variant omicron
Date of Posting: 27-11-2021
WHAT IS THIS NEW COVID-19 VARIANT IN SOUTH AFRICA? South African scientists identified a new version of the coronavirus this week that they say is behind a recent spike in COVID-19 infections in Gauteng, the country's most populous province.[s Read More...
Vic vax hubs to close, test demand rises
Last Updated: 26-11-2021
As COVID-19 vaccination hubs wind down in Victoria, a rise in demand for testing is putting more pressure on the system. The Victorian government on Friday confirmed the closure of eight state-run vaccination clinics, starting from the end of this Read More...
South Africa detects new COVID-19 variant
Last Updated: 26-11-2021
South African scientists say they have detected a new COVID-19 variant in small numbers and are working to understand its potential implications. The variant - called B.1.1.529 - has a "very unusual constellation" of mutations, which are Read More...
Vic to increase non-urgent surgery cap
Last Updated: 26-11-2021
Victoria will increase its cap on non-urgent surgeries at private hospitals by a quarter, while public hospitals can resume up to 50 per cent of capacity in some regional areas. The state government said, beginning on Monday, public hospitals in B Read More...
The love, compassion, and tears of a neonatal ward
Date of Posting: 26-11-2021
The neonatal team at Mater Mothers’ Hospital Neocritical Care Unit have implemented key changes to the way premature babies are treated in the delivery room, leading to marked improvements in survival rates as well as a decline in lung disease Read More...
More virus cases detected in SA
Last Updated: 25-11-2021
Dozens of people have been forced into quarantine after South Australia reported two new coronavirus cases in travellers from interstate and a third in someone returning from overseas. The cases take the number of active infections in SA to five.[ Read More...
Latest on worldwide spread of coronavirus
Last Updated: 24-11-2021
* France recorded more than 30,000 new COVID-19 infections over 24 hours for the first time since August as the pace of infection sped up despite new social distancing measures and a drive to boost vaccinations. * Spain's Catalonia region plan Read More...
A real shot in the arm for anaphylaxis
Last Updated: 24-11-2021
The danger doesn't end with a shot of adrenaline for thousands of Australians who suffer from anaphylaxis. Almost 20 Aussies die from anaphylaxis annually.[subscribe] Each year more than 11,500 Australians present to emergency departments w Read More...
Recorded HIV cases drop 31 pct in NSW
Date of Posting: 24-11-2021
There's been a dramatic drop in HIV infections in NSW which health authorities attribute to the extended lockdown during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. From January to September, 141 NSW residents were diagnosed with HIV, a decrease of 3 Read More...
