Author: healthprofessionalradio

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• Breakthroughs in cancer treatments mean more people are surviving. Adelaide-based researchers are conducting a research of cancer survivors to find out what they need and want.

• Patients with multiple sclerosis will soon have access to a new test which can tell them exactly what type of MS they have and how well their medications are working.

• The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) supports its members who refuse to move to the Perth Children’s Hospital until an independent group confirms lead contamination has been removed.

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• Anthony Mundine invited Charlie Teo (brain surgeon) to his rematch with Danny Green in Adelaide tonight, but the Australian Medical Association wants the boxing to be banned.

• Australian businesses aim for better care services, better public transport and stronger regulation on employees as part of Australia’s labour market solutions.

• Australian doctors are worried about patients with angina because of the national shortage of the vital drug used to treat it. The brand of drug used to treat it, Anginine, dilates arteries to increase blood flow to the heart during an attack.

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• Surgeons at the Redcliffe Hospital had operated on the wrong part of Mark Beilby’s abdomen. Mr Beilby’s case is one of 47 serious errors that occurred in the Queensland public health system between 2010 and 2015.

• Public health alerts were issued during a thunderstorm asthma outbreak last year in Melbourne, which has been linked to 9 deaths. Experts said emergency chiefs did not understand the cause of the crisis and more lives could have been lost if the triple-0 service had not acted quickly.

• Sudden cardiac arrest has caused the unexplainable death of Captain Ross Dennerstein, a fit and active family man who regularly attends medical tests that all commercial airline pilots are required to undertake.

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• The head of two major public hospitals in Adelaide, the Royal Adelaide and Queen Elizabeth, has been terminated. Julia Squire has been dismissed as chief executive of Central Adelaide Local Network.

• The Mediterranean diet is known for its physical health benefits. Studies show that it can also be used as a weapon in battling mental health problems.

• Tamika Ullrich, a 23-year-old woman who complains of experiencing headaches, neck pain and spasms, has been found dead in her home a day after she was given painkillers and a muscle relaxant before being discharged from Northam Hospital. Investigation results show that the woman died of chronic hydrocephalus.

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• Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital may have given ineffective Hepatitis B vaccines to babies and postnatal cough vaccine to three mothers over the past few months as a result of low temperature readings in their storage fridge. The hospital has begun contacting affected patients to alert them of the potential problem.

• Q fever cases in South Australia have increased, which prompted SA Health to encourage people to get vaccinated. 28 people were diagnosed with severe flu-like disease in 2016. This is more than double from twelve cases in 2015 and nine cases in 2014.

• Parents, teachers and students are urged to call out bullying and act on it when they see it. According to ReachOut, a mental health organization, 52% of bullying incidents occur in school, followed by 25% from online space and another 25% happens at work.

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• Ambulance Victoria develops a new app that allows anyone who is trained in giving first aid to respond to emergency calls involving a suspected cardiac arrest. When a triple-0 call came in, the app will pinpoint the person’s location.

• Scientists have successfully created the first human-pig hybrid embryo, which hints a possibility to grow human organs inside other animals for use in transplants in the future.

• Alan Mackay-Sim urged politicians to think beyond the political cycle when it comes to research funding as he accepted his Australian of the Year award. Australia’s share of world health and medical research output has risen to 3.8 per cent (as of 2012).