Articles
Planning for an uncertain future
Forming a clear picture of what’s changing the landscape of healthcare facilities, and discovering the best ways to plan for an uncertain future was the theme of a roundtable discussion between some of the health design industry’s key players. Alex Holderness reports. [ + ]
Higher Risk of Birth Problems Using Assisted Reproductive Therapies
A University of Adelaide study has shown the risk of serious complications such as stillbirth, preterm birth, low birth weight and neonatal death is approximately twice as high for babies conceived by assisted reproductive therapies compared with naturally conceived babies. [ + ]
Promising Strategy for Treating Cancers by Blocking MYC
[caption id="attachment_6291" align="alignright" width="200"] Dr Gemma Kelly (left), Dr Marco Herold (centre) and Professor Andreas Strasser have discovered a promising new target for treating many cancers. Picture from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research[/caption] [ + ]
Applications Now Open for Scholarship to attend National Medicines Symposium
Applications are now open for the Asia-Pacific Scholarship for a passionate individual working in quality use of medicines in the Asia Pacific region (outside of Australia) to attend the eighth biennial National Medicines Symposium (NMS), Australia’s preeminent quality use of medicines forum. [ + ]
Burden of chronic liver disease in Australia – It’s time to act
Staggering statistics have recently highlighted the impact of chronic liver disease globally on the health of individuals and communities and in the global arena, writes Associate Professor Amany Zekry. [ + ]
Does ethics have a role in recruitment
Contemporary recruitment procedures are carefully designed so as to avoid unlawful discrimination. This results in precisely crafted job criteria and scrupulously even-handed treatment of applicants. This careful attention to fairness could be said to express the ethical value and principle of justice and, accordingly, to this extent recruitment processes do provide a role for ethics. [ + ]
NSQHS standards implementation review
In this final article in the series from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission), we review the progress of implementation of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards since their introduction into health service organisations on 1 January 2013. [ + ]
Rate of Golden Staph Cases in Public Hospitals has Dropped
The national rate of 'golden staph', cases in public hospitals dropped between 2010-11 and 2012-13, according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). [ + ]
New Advanced Imaging Technique to Detect Cancer in Lymph Nodes
Cancer in lymph nodes will more likely be detected with the development of an advanced imaging technique supported by the latest Cancer Council WA grant. [ + ]
New National Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics
The University of Adelaide has been awarded $23 million in Federal funding to establish a new national Centre of Excellence For Nanoscale BioPhonics to develop technologies that will help create a "window into the body" in ways never achieved before. [ + ]
Age services future - Working smarter
Australian Hospital and Healthcare Bulletin introduces a new regular column by Leading Age Services Australia CEO Patrick Reid. [ + ]
