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[caption id="attachment_8582" align="alignright" width="200"] Professor Peter Høj and Toby Carrington sign the collaboration agreement between UQ and Siemens Siemens Australia that will boost research and development in MRI.[/caption] [ + ]

Next week marks the first anniversary of the rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. It is timely that we take a moment to reflect just how far we have come in that year, and also to name some of the challenges we will face going forward to full scheme rollout in coming years. [ + ]

Mental health experts are using social media to predict when a person living with a mental illness is likely to experience a relapse. [ + ]

Smokers beware: Scientists in Sydney have uncovered a deadly new link between cigarettes and lung disease. [ + ]

A new report claims that at a time when the number of surgeons in Australasia needs to be growing, medical student interest in surgery as a career is stagnant, raising serious concerns for the surgical workforce of the future. [ + ]

The aged care accommodation supplement for significant refurbishment is an important mechanism to encourage greater investment in the market through incentives for residential aged care providers to build and refurbish their facilities. [ + ]

Lifestyle-related chronic diseases are the leading cause of illness, disability and death in Australia, according to the latest two-yearly national health report card from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). [ + ]

Assistant Minister for Health Fiona Nash has asked for work to begin on developing a plan for implementing the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan. [ + ]

The World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) has had one billion international units (IUs) of clotting factor therapy donated for humanitarian aid programs. [ + ]

International research involving the University of Adelaide has shown for the first time that poor nutrition – including a lack of fruit, vegetables and whole grains – is associated with the development of multiple chronic diseases over time. [ + ]

[caption id="attachment_8527" align="alignright" width="200"] Young Australian medical researchers are part of the official delegation travelling to the 64th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau[/caption] Fifteen young Australian medical researchers are heading to Germany this week to meet with Nobel Prize winners in the fields of physiology and medicine. The 64th Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting (29 June - 4 July 2014) brings together 600 young researchers from 80 different countries to interact with giants in these fields and build networks with other researchers. [ + ]

New Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the McGrath Foundation Petra Buchanan has been appointed to lead the organisation in a new phase of development. [ + ]

[caption id="attachment_8461" align="alignright" width="161"] Grant Kardachi[/caption] Pharmacists have been reminded of the need to follow correct standards and procedures in the preparation of dose administration aids (DAAs) following a warning from the Pharmacy Board of Australia over a medication incident involving the drug methotrexate. The Board said this resulted in a death and while the medication was dispensed correctly, the resultant packaging of the drug into a dose administration aid by a pharmacy technician was incorrect and the packing error was not detected by the pharmacist. [ + ]

The Wound Management Innovation Cooperative Research Centre (WMI CRC) has joined forces with  RMIT University to maximise the potential to heal wounds and conduct wound research. [ + ]