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New age of online learning for health

Date: 
Mon, 25/06/2012
Spokesperson: 
NT Minister for Health, Kon Vatskalis

   The Department of Health has entered a new educational age utilising online technology to provide staff with better access to quality training regardless of where in the Northern Territory they work.

You're not too old to donate life

Date: 
Mon, 25/06/2012
Spokesperson: 
Organ and Tissue Authority

   "Many Australians aged 65 years or over believe that it is better to just leave it to their family to decide, even though 82% of them believe it is important that their family know their wishes and 71% correctly understand that the family is always asked to confirm the donation wishes of the deceased.

Australian physiotherapists campaign for Medicare support during World Continence Week

Date: 
Mon, 25/06/2012
Spokesperson: 
Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA)

   As World Continence Week begins, the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) is campaigning for dedicated Medicare items for incontinence treatment. In 2010 nearly 4.8 million Australians, more than a quarter of the Australian population aged over 15 years, were living with incontinence. This figure is estimated to rise to more than 6.4 million by 2030.

Patients to benefit from new PBS listings

Date: 
Mon, 25/06/2012
Spokesperson: 
Medicines Australia

   The listing of 11 prescription medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme announced by the Federal Minister for Health Tanya Plibersek will provide patients with affordable access to cost- effective treatments, Medicines Australia chief executive Brendan Shaw said today.

Flower power may be answer to itchy problem

Date: 
Mon, 25/06/2012
Spokesperson: 
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

   Sunflowers may hold the solution to a problem which gets under the skin of millions of Australians every year.

Claims saying 320,000 will drop health cover are wrong

Date: 
Mon, 25/06/2012
Spokesperson: 
Minister for Health, The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP

   Claims today in the Courier Mail that 320,000 Queenslanders will drop their private health insurance and clog up public hospitals because of Commonwealth changes are rubbish, said Health Minister Tanya Plibersek.

Mobile health service for isolated Peel areas

Date: 
Mon, 25/06/2012
Spokesperson: 
WA Deputy Premier; Health; Tourism, Kim Hames

   • State Government to provide $140,000 per year for 5 years to fund mobile health service for Peel region • Community consultation identified specific communities’ needs and helped determine services to be delivered

New strategy to control whooping cough spread In NSW

Date: 
Mon, 25/06/2012
Spokesperson: 
NSW Health

   After a three year vaccination campaign that provided free whooping cough vaccine to carers of new babies, from 1 July NSW Health will refocus its adult whooping cough vaccine strategy to new mothers in maternity units. New mothers can also receive the free vaccination from their GP within two weeks of giving birth.

Cost of medicines to fall for thousands of Australians

Date: 
Mon, 25/06/2012
Spokesperson: 
Minister for Health, The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP

   Around 45,000 people will benefit from new, cheaper medicines following the Government’s approval of eleven new medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

Views of breast cancer survivors needed for study

Date: 
Fri, 22/06/2012
Spokesperson: 
The University of Adelaide

Australian women who have survived breast cancer are being sought for a new national study that recognises the importance of what happens next. The study, being led by University of Adelaide researchers, hopes to better understand the needs of women who have survived breast cancer, which could lead to improvements to their follow-up care.

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