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13 new Medicare-eligible MRI units are planned for all states 10/2/2007

The Australian Government has announced it will fund 13 new Medicare-eligible Magnetic Resonance Imaging units in all six states.

Genome of parasitic worm that causes elephantiasis solved 9/25/2007

More than 150 million people worldwide are infected with filarial parasites — long, thread-like worms that can live for years inside the human body and cause severe, debilitating ...

ANF rejects PM’s new hospital based training plan 9/25/2007

The ANF today rejected John Howard’s ill-conceived proposal to return to hospital based training for nurses when more than 30,000 registered nurses (AIHW 2006) around Australia refuse ...

Support for doctors and health professionals in NT 9/20/2007

The Australian Government has committed a further $100 million for more doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and specialist services as part of the Northern Territory Emergency ...

New referral guidelines to help fast track specialist care 9/18/2007

New referral guidelines for General Practitioners will help thousands of Western Australians receive better access to specialist care.

Education, training must be key priority in GP super clinics 9/6/2007

The Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) is pleased to see the Australian Labor Party’s acknowledgement of General Practice as the frontline of the Australian healthcare ...

Aust scientists discover new medical visualisation method 9/4/2007

John Brumby, has announced that scientists from WEHI have now visualised how a “molecular switch” that regulates the life span of normal cells and cancer cells can be flipped.

Trial shows blood pressure drugs can cut diabetes deaths 9/4/2007

NHMRC CEO Professor Warwick Anderson has congratulated the George Institute for International Health (Sydney) on the success of a worldwide clinical trial showing that a combination ...

Regulator cancels registration of anti inflammatory drug 8/28/2007

Australia's medicines Regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has cancelled the registration of the osteoarthritis drug, Lumiracoxib because of serious liver side ...

Research Centre wins funding for clinical collaboration 8/23/2007

CSIRO scientists at the e-Health Research Centre will work with their counterparts in Europe and the USA to develop technologies to support effective communication in clinical teams. ...

Report highlights cancer diagnosis, mortality across NSW 8/21/2007

Men in regional NSW have a higher than average chance of being diagnosed with largely preventable cancers, including those of the head, neck, lung and oesophagus, and in some areas ...

Institute of Obesity, Nutrition and Exercise launched 8/21/2007

The University has announced the formation of a new high level research centre, which will tackle the obesity epidemic with an unprecedented expert collaborative group based in Sydney. ...

Clever Networks funding for health care in remote QLD 8/14/2007

The Minister for Communications, Information Technology and Arts, Senator the Hon Helen Coonan has announced funding of $5 million to provide high-capacity broadband services to ...

New education and training for better mental health care 8/14/2007

New education and training packages launched recently by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator Brett Mason, will help GPs and other health ...

Is inexorable cancer growth driven by most tumour cells ? 8/9/2007

Research in recent years has suggested that the relentless growth of many cancers is sustained by a rare population of cells termed “cancer stem cells.”

Nanocomposite can be used to destroy cancerous tumours 8/9/2007

Iron/iron oxide nanocomposite particles could be used to heat tumours and destroy them say scientists in the US.

$36 million given to Australian medical researchers 8/7/2007

The Commonwealth Government’s $36 million Australia Fellowships, through the National Health and Medical Research Council, have been awarded to researchers in cancer, infectious ...

Gene mutation that causes heart malformations in children 8/2/2007

In breakthrough research, scientists from NSW have identified abnormalities (mutations) in a cardiac gene, TBX20, which are responsible for heart malformations in children.

Cancer Council lauds preventative healthcare commitment 7/31/2007

The Cancer Council Australia has welcomed the Federal Opposition's plan for a new national preventative healthcare strategy aimed at reducing the impact of chronic disease in Australia. ...

New predictive tool created specifically for heart failure 7/31/2007

Melbourne based biotechnology company HD Medical Group Limited is moving rapidly towards international application of its world first, non-invasive heart failure prediction device, ...

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