A report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has indicated that cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease were the underlying causes of almost 53,000, or 36%, of deaths in 2011. [ + ]

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 Médecins Sans Frontières cannot guarantee its overwhelmed teams can meet the extremely high quality needed to treat patients and protect Médecins Sans Frontières' staff and from infection. [ + ]

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has opened an Expression-of-Interest (EOI) process for organisations interested in providing services to establish the National Institute for Dementia Research. [ + ]

Telstra has officially launched a new business division, Telstra Health, in its bid to provide integrated eHealth solutions. [ + ]

The Queensland Pharmacist Immunisation Implementation Pilot team, led by the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s Queensland President, Professor Lisa Nissen, has received the prestigious University of Technology Sydney Innovative Pharmacist of the Year award. [ + ]

Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) in Sydney is under threat of sale or long-term lease of it's southern campus. [ + ]

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Supplementing current anti-depressant medication with B vitamins improves response to treatment, according to a study by researchers at The University of Western Australia. [ + ]

Australian public hospitals admitted almost 700,000 patients from elective surgery waiting lists in 2013-14 according to a new report Australian hospital statistics 2013-14: elective surgery waiting times. [ + ]

Australia's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Baggoley is confident that State and Territory health authorities have well developed systems in place to protect the community if a case of Ebola is found in Australia. [ + ]

Prime Minister, the Hon Tony Abbott MP and the Minister for Health, the Hon Peter Dutton MP, have announced NHMRC grant funding totalling $580.2 million. [ + ]

NSQHS Standard 9 supports the provision of appropriate and timely care to patients whose condition is deteriorating. The National Consensus Statement: Essential Elements for Recognising and Responding to Clinical Deterioration was developed by the Commission and has been endorsed by Australian Health Ministers as the national approach for recognising and responding to clinical deterioration in Australia. NSQHS Standard 9 builds on this to drive implementation in acute care health services. [ + ]

Dementia will soon engulf more than 100 million people across the globe, but an international research group is leading a world-first effort to prevent dementia in people who are at high risk of this insidious disease. [ + ]

New research by the University of Melbourne has found that losing weight slowly, as recommended by current dietary guidelines, does not necessarily mean there is less change of weight gain. [ + ]