Australian women are being warned against complacency when it comes to breast cancer amid a fall in screening rates. New figures reveal the number of women aged 50–69 attending their free mammogram every two years has been in decline since ...
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Nurses, midwives say TPP will weaken health systems
Nurses have penned an open letter to trade ministers and government leaders warning about a range of detrimental effects on Australia’s and other nations’ health systems from a key international trade agreement. The controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been spruiked by the Australian ...
More »Prolonged sitting may raise anxiety levels: Deakin
Increased anxiety is the latest condition to be linked to prolonged sitting. Watching TV, working at a computer or playing electronic games have long been associated with physical health problems such as obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and osteoporosis. ...
More »Hubbub over WHO hub: UTS centre showcased
An Australian World Health Organisation collaborating centre put on an exhibition of its work in the Asia-Pacific region to celebrate the launch of the centre as secretariat of WHO's worldwide network. The University of Technology, Sydney-based WHO Collaborating Centre (WHO ...
More »Childbirth more dangerous for indigenous
Australia's indigenous women are dying at more than twice the rate of other women from complications of pregnancy and childbirth. There were 105 maternal deaths between 2008 and 2012, including women who died while pregnant or within 42 days of ...
More »APNA conference engages the world
International experts brought lessons on leadership, infectious and chronic disease, and mental health and career frameworks to an Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association conference on the Gold Coast. Brave to Bold, the APNA national conference, featured a range of experts ...
More »Aged-care acute illness project earns funding
A project aiming to improve the care of nursing home residents who develop acute illnesses has received $1.15 million from the Department of Social Services. The project is called CEDRiC (Care Co-ordination through Emergency Department, Residential Aged Care and Primary ...
More »Researchers plot acute-care assessment system
A research team has received more than $770,000 from the Federal Department of Social Services to develop and test a new assessment system for acute hospital care. Professor Len Gray, director of the University of Queensland’s Centre for Research in Geriatric Medicine, is ...
More »Larger fatal burden for Indigenous people
A report released today found that in 2010, Indigenous Australians lost about 100,000 years of life to premature mortality. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report also held the fatal burden for Indigenous Australians was 2.6 times that for non-Indigenous Australians. Injuries and ...
More »Aussies courting chronic disease
About two-thirds of Australians have health issues caused by risk factors that are "modifiable", such as exercise, diet and smoking, a new report shows. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report, which was released on Wednesday, uses data from ...
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