The federal government has been accused of “forgetting” Australians with disability after “absolutely shameful” revelations over vaccine rates among the vulnerable group. A parliamentary inquiry on COVID-19 heard on Tuesday just 6.5 per cent of Australians living with disability had ...
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Profound loss of pleasure linked to early onset dementia
New research has found that a profound inability to feel pleasure, known as anhedonia, is a key feature of early onset dementia and the study could provide an area for future treatments of the condition. Anhedonia is technically defined as ...
More »Hunt confirms ‘high interest’ in producing mRNA vaccines onshore
Australia is interested in producing a cutting-edge form of COVID-19 vaccine onshore, but the Health Minister warns it could take the “best part of a year” for manufacturing to begin. Greg Hunt says the federal government has a “very high interest” in ...
More »No more ‘fiddling about the edges’: Aged care group responds to royal commission report ahead of May budget
A group of aged care peak bodies has called on the Government to adopt their new 15-point plan to improve the aged care system in the quickest time possible. The Australian Aged Care Collaboration (AACC), the newly formed group of ...
More »Nedlands: police investigate woman’s death at Regis facility
Police are investigating the death of an elderly woman at a Regis aged care facility in Perth’s leafy western suburbs. The 89-year-old woman died at the Nedlands facility on Tuesday. “Major crime division officers are making inquiries to determine the cause and circumstances ...
More »Game changer: PM on Respect@Work report
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has agreed to or noted all 55 recommendations in a report on sexual harassment in the workplace, one year on from its release. At a press conference, Morrison called the Respect@Work Report a “game changer”. It ...
More »Paracetamol helps with four conditions, little evidence for others
A new review of paracetamol has revealed it has only been proven to relive pain in four conditions. The University of Sydney systematic review, published this week in the Medical Journal of Australia, held that for most conditions, evidence regarding ...
More »‘No link’ between vaccine and aged care death
Australia’s chief medical officer has said there is no apparent causal link between the death of an elderly Queensland woman and the COVID-19 vaccination she received hours earlier. The 82-year-old, who had been living at the Blue Care Yurana aged ...
More »‘No issue from our end’: Hunt on vaccine rollout dispute
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has defended Australia’s vaccine rollout after states and territories lashed the government over claims they were holding back vaccine doses from the public. Australia has administered a mere 670,000 vaccines as of March 31, falling ...
More »New step to contain ‘worrying’ cluster, no aged care cases yet
Brisbane residents will have access to urgent COVID-19 testing even when asymptomatic as fears grow over a cluster in the city. Queensland has confirmed 10 cases of the highly infectious UK COVID-19 strain, four locally acquired, plunging Greater Brisbane into ...
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