Author: healthprofessionalradio

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• After more than four years of construction, planning and commissioning, the $1.8 billion Sunshine Coast University Hospital (SCUH) is staggering the opening of its departments, with the final services to open in the first week of April. It has initially opened with 450 beds and is expected to reach capacity by 2021 with 738 beds.

• Exercise physician and chairman of Sports Medicine Australia Dr Andrew Jowett advises that the key to staying active — without causing further damage — is to do some form of physical activity that keeps your heart rate up.

• The not-for-profit Mercer Supercycle riders will cycle as a group starting from Adelaide. The group hopes to collect between $400,000 and $500,000 for cancer patients as they ride through the Adelaide Hills.

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• According to NSW Ambulance, 142 women delivered their babies with the assistance of a call taker, while paramedics made it in time to complete 84 deliveries. Call taker Chris Lewis said while it might seem daunting for mothers to deliver a baby outside the safety of a hospital, call takers were highly skilled and could help guide those who went into labour suddenly.

• Katherine Hospital in the Northern Territory has gone from one of the worst facilities in the country when it comes to Indigenous health care to one of the best. Their secret: engaging with Indigenous patients and supporting doctors.

• The PAGI program is an Australian-first and will use machine learning and artificial intelligence to uncover unprecedented insights from genomic and clinical information. It aims to set the intellectual and technological framework for a new way of thinking in medical research, in healthcare and in health systems management. It also aims to usher in an era in which big data and its analysis transform our understanding of human biology and disease.

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• South Australian coroner Mark Johns is investigating Rita Ann Broadway’s death in early 2015. The 66-year- old woman, who was in a wheelchair, was taken to Modbury Hospital by ambulance after complaining of pain near her bladder catheter and the inquest heard her requests went unmet for it to be changed. recommended.

• Flavour chemist and sensory scientist Dr Heather Smyth told a forum at the World Science Festival in Brisbane that taste was the fusion of a food’s flavour, smell and touch into a single sensation.

• Ten people in Sydney’s inner-west are being monitored for tuberculosis (TB), after an initial failure to diagnose a student with the infection, the New South Wales Health Department says. The director of NSW Health’s communicable diseases branch Vicky Sheppeard said the man’s family and friends will now be monitored for TB for up to two years.

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• WDr John Grygiel, a Sydney oncologist, took St Vincent’s Hospital to the Fair Work Commission claiming unfair dismissal after his employment was terminated last year due to a report that states 100 cancer patients treated by Dr Grygiel received off-protocol doses of chemotherapy, with many receiving a lower dose than recommended.

• Treatment of patients who undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) should be included in tertiary medical curricula. FGM is only practised in about 30 countries and is illegal in Australia, but may Australian women are affected by it.

• Health professionals attended the Drug Development Conference 2017 last week and explored ways to accelerate patient access to the latest cancer therapies, such as immunotherapies and targeted drugs, through early phase clinical trials.

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• West Australian Government might introduce the “No Jab, No Play” policy, a law that bans unvaccinated children from childcare centres and preschools.

• Paramedics were cleared of any wrongdoing over the death of Stacey Louise Yean, who died hours after she was told she did not require hospital treatment.

• Pregabalin, a drug commonly used to treat the painful condition sciatica, is no more effective than a placebo.

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• Murray Valley Encephalitis (MVE), a mosquito-borne virus, was detected again in northern WA. MVE can leave people with permanent impaired neurological function, such as paralysis and loss of verbal function.

• A vomiting mannequin in Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) trains paramedics and nurses to the uncommon and a very difficult scenario of a patient who vomits while we’re taking over their breathing for them.

• An inhalable version of the drug oxytocin could reduce the number of women dying in childbirth. Current version of this drug is injectible and skilled medical professionals must administer it.

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• Older Persons Mental Health Service, a Government-run nursing home in Adelaide for elderly people with dementia has been sanctioned due to allegations of mistreatment of residents.

• Researchers found out that slice of bread can contain more salt than a single serving packet of chips, according to a study by the George Institute for Global Health.

• Julia Gillard was named as the new chair of the mental health advocacy organisation Beyond Blue, replacing former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett.

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• NSW hospital patients have had a serious privacy breach on multiple occasions, including medical records being found in a public car park and some along the walkway. Patients were not even informed on this matter.

• Swimming365 swimmers are determined to take the challenge of swimming to Rottnest Island, covering 20 kilometres of open water. These swimmers are at risk of type 2 diabetes, some are already suffering the condition.

• Research evidences show that repeated concussions to rugby league players have a long-term effect, says neuroscientist Dr Alan Pearce.