Industry Q&A with Professor John Skerritt
13 January, 2014 by ahhb[caption id="attachment_6159" align="alignright" width="133"] Professor John SkerrittNational Manager of the Therapeutic Goods Administration[/caption]
Planning for an uncertain future
10 January, 2014 by ahhbForming 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.
Promising Strategy for Treating Cancers by Blocking MYC
08 January, 2014 by Petrina Smith[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]
Scientists Uncover how Stomach Bacteria is Linked to Gastric Cancer
06 January, 2014 by Petrina Smith
Applications Now Open for Scholarship to attend National Medicines Symposium
06 January, 2014 by Petrina SmithApplications 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.
Does ethics have a role in recruitment
02 January, 2014 by ahhbContemporary 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
27 December, 2013 by ahhbIn 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.
New Advanced Imaging Technique to Detect Cancer in Lymph Nodes
19 December, 2013 by Petrina SmithCancer 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
18 December, 2013 by Petrina SmithThe 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.
Message from the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation
18 December, 2013 by ahhbLee Thomas, Federal Secretary of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), presents this issue’s foreword.
Age services future - Working smarter
18 December, 2013 by ahhbAustralian Hospital and Healthcare Bulletin introduces a new regular column by Leading Age Services Australia CEO Patrick Reid.
New Nanocrystals Offer Rapid Diagnostics and Anti Drug Counterfeiting
16 December, 2013 by Petrina SmithMacquarie University researchers have invented a new generation of nanocrystals which offer untapped clinical potentials in non-invasive cancer diagnostic kits, rapid pathogen screening for acute infection, and invisible coding for identification of authentic pharmaceuticals.
