Tag: Health
Hospital plan to benefit from health shake-up: AMAQ
The Australian Medical Association of Queensland (AMAQ) says if the State Government accepts a federal plan to overhaul the health system, it would negate the need for private funding to build the new Sunshine Coast University Hospital.[MORE]
Hospital defends upgrade delays
The design of the new emergency department at the Alice Springs Hospital is still being finalised eight months after the initial plans went on display.[MORE]
Waste dump debate a 'health issue'
The Senate committee in charge of the inquiry into the proposed nuclear waste dump is expected to decide today whether to visit Tennant Creek.[MORE]
Critical period for liver transplant woman
A 24-year-old former drug addict mother who was refused a second liver transplant in Australia has undergone potentially life-saving surgery in Singapore.[MORE]
Care to suffer under mental health plan: nurses
The New South Wales Nurses Association will start a community campaign aimed at stopping plans to replace mental health nurse managers in the Illawarra with non-clinical staff.[MORE]
Councils seek no more hospital cuts guarantee
Councils from the western New South Wales region will seek assurances from the chief executive of Greater Western Area Health that there will be no more cutbacks at local hospitals. [MORE]
Self-extinguishing cigarettes law welcomed
Anti-smoking campaigners have welcomed the fast-tracking of legislation that will make self-extinguishing cigarettes mandatory in Australia from next week.[MORE]
Doctor deregistered over misconduct finding
A doctor who was sacked over an incident at Maitland Hospital, in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, has been deregistered.[MORE]
Council food inspections dish up positive results
Newcastle council has talked up the success of food inspections at restaurants and other eateries throughout the city.[MORE]
Surgeons says Liberals lack health 'detail'
A group representing surgeons in South Australia says the Opposition's health policy lacks detail.[MORE]
Alcohol is Pacific's biggest problem drug
New research has revealed the Pacific region is facing a growing problem with alcohol.[MORE]
Kids told to step up fight against obesity
Former Olympians Cathy Freeman and Herb Elliott have launched a program to tackle obesity in Australian children.[MORE]
Bligh 'overcomes squeamishness' and donates blood
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says she has conquered her squeamishness about donating blood and will become a regular giver.[MORE]
Privately run public hospitals opposed
The State Opposition plans to introduce legislation in an attempt to stop the government from allowing private companies to run Western Australia's public hospitals.[MORE]
Heavy smoke lowers air quality
Traralgon and the Latrobe Valley have the worst air quality in Victoria today.[MORE]
Push for melancholia to be listed as illness
Melancholia has been out of favour for more than 20 years after being dropped from the psychiatrists' diagnostic manual for mental illness in 1980. [MORE]
Good take-up at free swine flu vaccinations
More than 55,000 Queenslanders have been vaccinated against swine flu so far at free weekend clinics being held at high schools around the state.[MORE]
Mine boom causes doctor housing shortage
A central western New South Wales mayor says the local mining boom has led to a shortage of housing for doctors who are considering working in the region.[MORE]
Revamped cerebral palsy office opens
The Cerebral Palsy League (CPL) in Toowoomba will today open its refurbished offices just months after a break-in threatened to derail the non-profit organisation.[MORE]
Surgeons boycott TAC, WorkCover claims
A Carramut woman claims surgeons are boycotting TAC and WorkCover patients.[MORE]
Coal dust health claims 'misleading'
A resident in Gladstone, in central Queensland, says comments from the State Government that coal dust is not a risk to people's health are misleading.[MORE]
Meningococcal man dies
A man from the New South Wales Hunter Valley has died from meningococcal disease.[MORE]
Quality against quantity in the US health reforms
"We need courage," president Obama said, as he kicked off a week already deemed the make-or-break week for health care reform. We seem to have had a few make-or-break weeks over health care in the past few months but this one comes with a few other rhetorical riders as well - "one last shot" and "one final pitch" for example.[MORE]
Blind soldier 'sees' with his tongue
A British soldier left blind by a grenade in Iraq has told how his life has been transformed by ground-breaking technology that enables him to "see" with his tongue.[MORE]
