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• Younger Aussies are increasingly neglecting sun safety 17-11-2025

  Younger Australians are increasingly choosing not to cover up when heading outdoors to enjoy the sun - a trend raising concern among health officials as summer approaches. Data released on Monday reveals just 26 per cent of people aged 13 to 28 co

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• State's bid for more cash in public hospital crisis fix 17-11-2025

  Pressure continues to mount for federal government intervention on the under-fire health network, with one state claiming it has reneged on a pledge to boost funding. Tasmania's premier said people were becoming increasingly stranded in the st

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• Educating the Educators: How Teaching Roles Are Evolving in Health Care 16-11-2025

  When healthcare students imagine their future, most picture patients, not podiums. Yet behind every competent nurse, physio, or psychologist is an educator who helped them get there — often someone who still balances teaching with clinical prac

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• The Future of Clinical Simulation: How Technology Is Redefining Health Training 16-11-2025

  In a bright skills lab at the University of Queensland, a patient suddenly goes into cardiac arrest. Alarms sound, students rush to act, and tension rises — until the instructor calls “pause.” The patient, of course, isn’t rea

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• Lifelong Learning in Healthcare: Why Upskilling Never Stops 16-11-2025

  If there’s one universal truth in healthcare, it’s that learning never really ends. Whether you’re a newly registered nurse, a senior physio, or a hospital department head, the pace of change in medicine and care delivery means toda

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• New Program Helps GPs Rethink Antidepressant Use to Improve Youth Mental Health Conversations 16-11-2025

  With one in three young Australians experiencing a mental health condition each year, and suicide remaining the leading cause of death for 16 to 24-year-olds, the way clinicians approach antidepressant use in teens and young adults has never been m

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• Stroke victim's ancestors assist in miracle recovery 16-11-2025

  When Peter Sykes 'died', he found himself in a room full of spirits he recognised as relatives guiding him towards an open door. But something, or someone, told him it was not his time and after a month-long coma following a stroke, he wok

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• Major cause of death reaches lowest level in 47 years 16-11-2025

  Deaths from coronary heart disease in Australia have fallen to their lowest rate in almost 50 years, with dementia overtaking it as the nation's leading cause of death. Australian Bureau of Statistics data released on Friday shows coronary hea

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• Wild form of polio found in German sewage sample 13-11-2025

  The wild form of virus behind polio has been detected in wastewater sampling in Germany, the country's main public health body says in a setback for efforts to rid the world of the deadly disease. The findings come more than 30 years after the

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• Cancer survival gap widens for disadvantaged patients 13-11-2025

  Cancer patients in disadvantaged areas are dying at higher rates than those in privileged communities as differences in survivorship grow. Medical advancements have significantly improved Australians' survival rates from one in two dying from

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