Diagnostic Instruments & Medical Imaging Feature Articles for Australian Healthcare

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Australian health system is in need of much better resources 12/15/2006

Prue Power, the executive director of the Australian Healthcare Association, speaks exclusively to Rodney Appleyard from MedicalSearch.com about what is wrong with the current health ...

Let's bite the bullet on oral and dental health and fix the problems 12/13/2006

With national leadership and affordable new expenditure, Australia could fix the terrible state of oral and dental health among its adults.

Number of women surviving from ovarian cancer is on the rise 12/8/2006

More Australian women are surviving ovarian cancer, but still more than half of those diagnosed will not survive five years, says the latest national report on ovarian cancer released ...

More funds made available for diagnostic and pathology services 12/6/2006

The Australian Government will provide more than $70 million in additional funding to Medicare for diagnostic imaging and pathology services.

$2 Million for innovative device to detect eye diseases sooner 11/28/2006

Industry Minister, Ian Macfarlane, has announced $2 million in funding for an ACT innovation that will see earlier detection of eye diseases, like glaucoma, and provide more effective ...

New gene silencing therapy treatment found for cervical cancer 11/26/2006

Dr Nigel McMillan Researchers at The University of Queensland's (UQ) Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research (CICR), based at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, have pioneered a new ...

Peripheral arterial disease 'catastrophic' for dialysis patients 11/22/2006

Millions of people world-wide who suffer from end-stage kidney disease have to wrestle with a multitude of complicated lifestyle changes once they are on dialysis, but the additional ...

Report shows that breast cancer rates up, but survival improving 11/15/2006

While the incidence of breast cancer continues to rise, more Australian women are surviving the disease than ever before, according to the latest national report on breast cancer ...

Australian research hope for people living with spinal cord injury 11/8/2006

Victorian Premier, Steve Bracks, has announced Victorian Government funding for an Australian-first research that could revolutionise the lives of people living with spinal cord ...

Government has provided funds for new breast cancer treatments 10/31/2006

The Australian Government will add two drugs for the treatment of breast cancer to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

Model predicts inheritable genetic defects with colon cancer 10/26/2006

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University and other institutions have developed a new prediction model for genetic defects known as Lynch syndrome, which predisposes families to ...

Perth researchers have found the answer to liver transplants 10/18/2006

Two medical researchers from Perth have returned home after telling the world’s leading scientists at a USA conference of their work that could potentially end the need for liver ...

Risk of contracting HIV in dental surgery discovered to be low 9/27/2006

The risk of contracting HIV in the dental surgery, whether from an infected dentist or from contaminated instruments, is extremely low.

Breast stem cells have features similar to ‘basal’ tumours 9/11/2006

The most aggressive form of breast cancer may originate from breast stem cells that have undergone genetic mishaps

Asthma and lung disease chronic in Australian hospitals 9/7/2006

A new report released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare says asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) could be a factor in more deaths and hospitalisations ...

Critical information about chronic diseases shared online 9/5/2006

Cystic Fibrosis Australia administers the National Cystic Fibrosis Data Registry.

Increased funding plans to boost immunisation outcomes 8/31/2006

Immunisation services will be strengthened with the Commonwealth Government increasing funding to state-based organisations through the General Practice Immunisation Incentives (GPII) ...

How can the growing problems in the dental industry be fixed? 8/22/2006

Last week, we published the first in our series of Q&As with Hans Zoellner, a dental lecturer at Sydney University, and the Chair of the Association for the Promotion of Oral Health. ...

Longer visits, fewer scripts and more advice about weight 8/9/2006

GPs are spending more time with their patients, writing fewer prescriptions, ordering more tests, doing more procedures and dispensing more advice about weight and nutrition, according ...

First clinical test for saliva-based oral cancer detection 8/7/2006

Oral cancer is the 6th most common cancer in men and the 14th most common cancer in women. In the US, oral cancer will be diagnosed in an estimated 30,000 Americans this year and ...

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