The World Health Organisation will unveil new guidelines devised by an Australian academic at tomorrow’s launch. Guidelines developed in Australia to keep medical patients safe while undergoing treatment are being adopted by health workers around the world. The World Health ...
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Federal govt bails out Brisbane GP clinic
Roxon steps in to save Redcliffe super clinic with an additional $3.2 million funding. The federal government will spend an extra $3.2 million to make sure a problem-plagued GP Super Clinic in Brisbane's northern suburbs can open its doors in ...
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Calls for a long-term campaign to fight the stigma attached to mental illness. Australia needs to campaign against mental illness stigma in the same way it campaigns against obesity, smoking and alcohol addiction, a mental health expert said. At a ...
More »National roll out of child pneumococcal vaccine begins
The federal government’s vaccination program targets a leading cause of death in infants. A national vaccination program to protect children from the potentially fatal pneumococcal disease is to be rolled out from this month. Pneumococcal disease remains the most common ...
More »Gaps in maternal health data identified
Australia lacks appropriate data to assess the impact of alcohol and substance abuse during pregnancy, new report finds. By Amber Forsyth. Inadequate information on alcohol and substance abuse during pregnancy has been highlighted by an Australian Institute of Health and ...
More »Reforming the rural workforce
Kate Leaver reports on the latest developments in Health Workforce Australia's (HWA) reform agenda. It's more than three decades since a group of 130 remote area nurses congregated in Alice Springs with a collective goal in mind; getting the government ...
More »Western lifestyle increases the risk of premature birth
The westernisation of Asian societies will see its pre-term birth rate boom, predicts an Australian researcher at the forefront of advising China about how to manage this trend. Linda Belardi reports. Women living in Western Australia are almost three times ...
More »Australia and India commit to community mental health agreement
While international collaboration between nations in times of disaster and medical crisis is common, Australian health professionals are now turning their attention to the rising global burden of mental illness. Linda Belardi reports. It is estimated that up to two ...
More »‘Geriatric flying squad’ takes flight
A multidisciplinary mobile team is improving the quality of life for older people living in the community, reports Darragh O Keeffe. It may be just 16 months in operation but a multidisciplinary 'geriatric flying squad' has already made a world ...
More »Surviving cancer
For decades medical science has long focused its research efforts on saving lives, now it's turning its attention to an emerging research field - survivorship. Louise Williams reports. Professor Andrew Lloyd had always imagined his career as an infectious diseases ...
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