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Truckies Given Access to Healthcare via Video
National Transport Support Services charity the Trans-Help Foundation is providing truckies with immediate access to healthcare via video conference facilities. [ + ]
Rate of Non-melanoma Skin Cancer Increases in Older Australians
The incidence of non-melanoma skin cancer has continued to increase in older Australians, however those under 45 have shown the first recorded drop. [ + ]
ACN Calls for Greater Emphasis on Managing Health of Climate Change
The Australian College of Nursing's call for a greater emphasis on managing the mental and physical effects of climate change has been reasserted with the release of an international report detailing the affect climate change is having on people’s health in Australia and around the world. [ + ]
ECG Tests Delivered over iPhone Can Diagnose Atrial Fibrillation Easily and Cheaply
An quick and easy ECG test delivered over an iPhone by pharmacists could cheaply diagnose atrial fibrillation, a common abnormal heart rhythm that causes a third of all strokes and doubles the chances of premature death. [ + ]
Multi-drug Resistant E.Coli Strain Could Devastate Communities
An international study has tracked a potentially devastating multi-drug resistant E. coli strain that is only one gene away from being resistant to almost all antibiotics. [ + ]
Researchers Take on Brain Cancer in New Research Program
Glioblastoma is the most common and the most lethal type of brain cancer – and at the moment, there is no cure for it. But that may change as two of Western Australia’s leading medical researchers take on a cancer whose victims usually only survive a few months after diagnosis. [ + ]
New Griffith Health Institute Professor Focusing on Whooping Cough Vaccine
[caption id="attachment_7331" align="alignright" width="134"] Professor Keith Grimwood[/caption] [ + ]
ANMF Criticises Government Cuts to Healthcare Spending
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has warned safe patient care will suffer in its criticism of the Abbot Government's cuts to healthcare spending. [ + ]
Partnering for better outcomes - Quality, accessible medical imaging
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Research Consortium is Advancing the Understanding of Human Genes
[caption id="attachment_7314" align="alignright" width="200"] UQ’s Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology associate professors Ernst Wolvetang and Christine Wells have spearheaded groundbreaking international DNA research.[/caption] [ + ]
Childhood Immunisation Increases but Some Areas Still at Risk
The National Health Performance Authorities second report on childhood immunisation rates shows the number of children not fully immunised has lowered, but there are areas in Australia where rates are low. [ + ]
Vaccine to Protect Against Middle Ear Infection is a Possibility
With middle ear infection the most common infection in children under the age of five, the news that a team of international researchers has moved a step closer to developing a vaccine to protect against it, is encouraging. [ + ]
Grant Awarded to Examine use of Breast Milk Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine
A researcher at The University of Western Australia has been awarded two major international grants to examine new horizons for regenerative medicine using breast milk stem cells. [ + ]
Vaccine to Protect Against HIV and Hepatitis C Viruses Takes Important Step Forward
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