Optometry & Ophthalmology Feature Articles for Australian Healthcare

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Tax tips for Australian businesses 1/21/2014

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has launched a new campaign to help Australian businesses meet their tax obligations.

Improving health and budget 'not necessarily mutually exclusive' 1/20/2014

The long term sustainability of Australia's Medicare system is a pressing problem, but health minister Peter Dutton is right to avoid making any hasty decisions about reforming it, ...

Health workforce shortage to reach 12.9m 'within decades' 11/12/2013

The world will be short of 12.9 million healthcare workers by 2035, with a figure already standing at 7.2 million, according to a recent World Health Organisation (WHO) report.

Reports highlight the need for coordinated health services 11/8/2013

Reports released by the Council of Australian Government Reform Council (COAG) and the National Health Performance Authority (NHPA) have highlighted the importance of health services ...

Abbott announces $559.1m for health, medical research 10/25/2013

Prime Minister Tony Abbott recently announced $559.1 million for Australian health and medical researchers to generate new health discoveries across Australia.

Historic nursing partnership to shape future of primary health care 10/23/2013

The Australian Medicare Local Alliance (AML Alliance) and the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA) have created a new partnership to enhance the role of the ...

ALP keeps experience in shadow health portfolio: AMA 10/18/2013

Catherine King was congratulated by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) on her recent appointment to the position of Shadow Minister for Health.

Simple test warns of world's leading eye disease 9/23/2013

A new, quick and simple eye test can predict who is more at risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness worldwide.

Ophthalmologist fee arrangements opposed by ACCC 9/20/2013

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has decided not to allow members of the Australian Society of Ophthalmologists (ASO) to reach agreements within shared ...

Nominations open for Victoria's Health Promotion Heroes of 2013 8/19/2013

Victorians are being invited to nominate health promotion champions for the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation Awards 2013, to be announced at a ceremony in Melbourne in December. ...

Get your facts straight: ABC website to investigate contentious claims 8/15/2013

Australia is about to get its facts straight – that's the message from the team behind the ABC's newly launched Fact Check website and accompanying platforms including television, ...

Disability weighting a pain in the neck for the blind 4/18/2013

Surveys regularly reveal that, when asked about their greatest fear, people nominate blindness as one of the two things they dread most (cancer being the other).

Overnight lenses restore up-close vision 4/11/2013

Wearing specially designed rigid contact lenses overnight that reshape the eye could remove the need for reading glasses in middle age, a UNSW study shows.

Glaucoma research clears the way for sufferers 3/20/2013

It's an eye disease that can affect anyone and it's responsible for taking the sight of millions of people worldwide every year.

Colour vision link may help myopia research 3/6/2013

A possible link between colour vision and the development of myopia - or near-sightedness - has been discovered by an international group, including a researcher from The University ...

Curable eye disease rife among indigenous Australians 2/28/2013

Australia remains the only developed country in the world not to have eliminated trachoma, the leading cause of infectious blindness, despite recent progress in tackling the disease. ...

New e-learning course champions patient safety 2/7/2013

A new learning course pioneered by two University of South Australia lecturers is aimed at raising the standard of handover of patient care in hospital and care facilities across ...

Petri dish lens’ gives hope for new eye treatments 1/31/2013

A cure for congenital sight impairment caused by lens damage is closer following research by scientists at Monash University.

Are plants the next human guinea pigs? 1/10/2013

Medical research designed to benefit humans may in the future also be carried out on plants.

Emotions vary following bushfire trauma 1/10/2013

Bushfire survivors should not be embarrassed about feeling a range of strong emotions as they grapple with the enormity of the disaster, a psychiatrist says.

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