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Pressure continues to mount on the federal government to rule out plans for any form of Medicare patient co-payment. The ANMF is now backing criticisms from senior Liberal MP Mal Brough of his own party’s approach to primary care funding. Brough ...

Hoping to appeal to millions of needle-phobic diabetics, drugmakers Sanofi and Mannkind have launched Afrezza, an insulin that's inhaled, rather than injected. Afrezza was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration last June for patients with either Type 1 ...

A British nurse who contracted Ebola whilst working in Sierra Leone possibly caught the virus by wearing a visor and not goggles in a situation better suited to the latter, an investigation has suggested. The report, by Save the Children, ...

The federal government is to commit $54.5 million over four years towards dementia support services for the establishment of a number of new Severe Behaviour Response Teams (SBRT). In a statement, assistant minister for social services Mitch Fifield explained that ...

Parents have long suspected it, but now doctors have proof: the more time teenagers spend on computers or mobile phones, the less they sleep, especially if the gadget is used just before bedtime. The evidence is so strong that health ...

A Liberal MP has called for the co-payment on GP visits to be dumped, as questions swirl about Tony Abbott's leadership. Queensland MP Mal Brough says Medicare spending on GP visits is not out of control. This contradicts the message from the government ...

Patients who have short GP appointments are no more likely to be bulk-billed than those who have longer appointments, a study has found. The survey of nearly 2500 Australians, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, found there was no ...

Victorian nurses are calling on the state’s Royal District Nursing Service to stage the introduction of its new services model over a longer time period and are demanding a range of guarantees for any staff the changes affect. The demands come ...

A nurse and academic with almost half a century of international and Australian experience has received one of the highest awards in the 2015 Australia Day honours. Dr Di Brown, who arrived in Australia in 1973 to work in the ...

A leading computational bioinformatics researcher has warned about the risks of online health information forums, saying many users are endangering their health by trusting potentially ill-informed and misleading advice. A study of online, patient-driven health forums by Dr Reeva Lederman ...