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Doctors launch a No Advertising Please campaign
In a bid to ban pharmaceutical company representatives from “educational” visits to their practices, Australian doctors have established a No Advertising Please campaign. [ + ]
National Centre for Excellence in Youth Mental Health
Australia's first National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health has been established to help find new and innovative treatments to better the lives of young people. [ + ]
Health Professionals Well Represented in Australian of the Year Awards
Queensland and Victoria have announced their finalists in the 2015 Australian of the Year Awards, with health professionals, lobbyists and philanthropists well represented. [ + ]
Health Gap for Disadvantaged Australians is 'Disturbing'
The gap in quality of health between the most advantaged and most disadvantaged Australians persists, according to new national figures released today by University of Adelaide public health researchers. [ + ]
New Heart of Australia Mobile Clinic in Regional and Rural Queensland
People living in regional, rural and remote Queensland will be given access to a new Heart of Australia mobile clinic that will provide quality cardiac and respiratory care. [ + ]
Patients Move into Fiona Stanley Hospital
Patients have begun moving into the new State Rehabilitation Service at Fiona Stanley Hospital today. [ + ]
Australian and New Zealand Sepsis Patients Get World-Best Treatment
Australian and New Zealand patients with sepsis can be confident they are getting the best treatment in the world. [ + ]
Smartphone App Helps Heart Attack Recovery
A new smartphone app developed by CSIRO is giving heart attack patients a better chance at completing life-saving rehabilitation. [ + ]
Australia Urged to Send Medical Personnel to Fight Ebola
The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières is urging Australia to send trained emergency medical personnel to fight Ebola in West Africa. [ + ]
Latest BreastScreen Australia Monitoring Report Released
More than 1.4 million women aged 50-69 had a screening mammogram through BreastScreen Australia in 2011 and 2012, according to the BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2011-2012, released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). [ + ]
CDC Confirms First Cast of Ebola in United States
The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the United States. [ + ]
No Causal Link Between Vitamin D Levels and Diabetes
A large genetic study, published today in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal, has concluded there is no evidence of a causal link between a person’s vitamin D levels, and whether they develop type 2 diabetes. [ + ]
Study Reports Major Declines in Death in People with Metastatic Melanoma
A world-first study published in the New England Journal of Medicine heralds the efficacy of a targeted combination drug therapy after reporting major declines in the risk of disease progression and death in people with metastatic melanoma. [ + ]
RECALL - Meningitec meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine
Health professionals are advised that Emerge Health, in consultation with the TGA, is recalling all unexpired doses of Meningitec meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine suspension for injection, single dose syringe, due to the potential for particulate contamination. [ + ]