Industry News
Westwick-Farrow Media launches Aged Health
Aged Health, a national print and digital publication, is aimed at helping aged care professionals stay on top of the latest developments in the industry. [ + ]
Hollywood Private Hospital starts HyCASA training
Hollywood Private Hospital is set to become a training and education hub for Hybrid Catheter Ablation and Surgical Ablation (HyCASA). [ + ]
Retraining the brain to reduce chronic pain
A randomised control trial that retrained the brains of people with back pain, and helped them to get moving, is reported to have shown promising results. [ + ]
Steve Robson and Danielle McMullen to head up AMA
The election, at the AMA's National Conference, follows the conclusion of the two-year terms of President Dr Omar Khorshid and Vice President Dr Chris Moy. [ + ]
New guideline for pharmacists supporting Indigenous Australians
The PSA has launched guidelines for pharmacists supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with medicines management. [ + ]
Asthma preventer medicine overprescribed
Professor Helen Reddel and colleagues from the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research have written about finding the lowest effective dose to control asthma. [ + ]
Virtual lung therapy delivered through a smartphone app
A browser-based smartphone app delivers therapy for people recovering from surgery and those with lung conditions involving overproduction of mucus. [ + ]
Critical oncology trial data remains hidden: study
Despite a commitment from the pharmaceutical industry to improve data transparency, more than half of the clinical trials that led to the USFDA approving anticancer medicines over the past 10 years are not available for independent scrutiny. [ + ]
New approach needed to tackle stroke prevention: experts
Melbourne researchers have found that current primary stroke prevention measures are insufficient and fragmented, and a more holistic approach is "urgently" needed. [ + ]
Health professionals need help to support DV victims
Health practitioners are often ideally placed to offer help to victims of gender-based violence, but they need more support and training to do so effectively. [ + ]
Designs released for Swan Hill ED redevelopment
The Victorian Health Building Authority has unveiled the first designs for the $48.7 million redevelopment of the Swan Hill District Health emergency department. [ + ]
Juvenile detention menu creates appetite for change
A study of food served in a youth detention centre in South Australia gives insights into the role diet and menu choices play in improving or reducing the incarceration experience. [ + ]
Growing pains, a medical misnomer?
The phrase "growing pains" is used by the general public and health professionals in reference to muscle or joint pain in young people. [ + ]
Study looks at circadian rhythms, sleep of hospital shift workers
An international study of hospital workers has found that sleep quality and circadian rhythms in night shift workers was poorer than in those who worked day shifts. [ + ]
Wounds Australia Conference — keynote speakers announced
After a temporary move online in 2020 due to COVID-related restrictions, Wounds Australia's biannual wounds conference is returning to Sydney this September. [ + ]
