Author: healthprofessionalradio

Guest: Dr. Laurie Hollman
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Laurie Hollman, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst with specialized clinical training in infant-parent, child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapy. She has been on the faculties of New York University and the Society for Psychoanalytic Study and Research, among others. She has written extensively on parenting for various publications, including the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, The International Journal of Infant Observation, The Inner World of the Mother, Newsday’s Parents & Children Magazine, Long Island Parent. Her new book is Unlocking Parental Intelligence: Finding Meaning in Your Child’s Behavior.

Segment overview: Dr. Laurie Hollman, PhD, a parenting expert, talks about her new book, “Unlocking Parental Intelligence: Finding Meaning in Your Child’s Behavior.”

Guest: Ben Wilson
Presenter: Wayne Bucklar
Guest Bio: Ben Wilson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Medical Travel Companions “Helping People to achieve their Travel Dreams” holds a Bachelor of Business Degree from the University of South Australia and Diploma. Ben brings to Medical Travel Companions twenty years of management experience in the Airline, Airport, Travel and Health consulting sectors. Medical Travel Companions has many affiliate partners including live web apps and marketing contracts with; Virgin Australia, Singapore Airlines, Abercrombie & Kent, Medical Tourism Asia, NRMA, AIG Travel Insurance, Allianz Travel Insurance and will be launching its services globally with several other global travel and health industry organisations. This experienced matched with a flair for entrepreneurship, operations, innovation and commerce on a global basis ensures MTC growth strategies are met.

Segment overview: In today’s Health Supplier Segment, we welcome returning guest Ben Wilson CEO and Co-Founder of Medical Travel Companions. They offer their services for travel on all forms of travel transport including, Flights, Cruise, Tour, Private vacations or Concierge transport services for local transportation requirements. They provide a practical solution for travellers who require a professional to assist or find it difficult to travel on their own. All their medical travel companions are guaranteed to be fully qualified health professionals (nannies, carers, nurses or paramedics).

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• Experiments using lab mice have shown how the Zika virus travels through the bloodstream, multiplies in the placenta and invades the brain of the developing foetus, stunting growth or causing death. This was the result of a [air of studies conducted, one published in the journal Cell and the other in Nature.

• Fears about potential choking deaths are being raised as people are moved from Stockton Centre in Newcastle into disability group homes due to its closure.

• Federal Labor MP Kate Ellis says. The South Australian Government needs to tighten laws that currently allow unvaccinated children to attend childcare without any sort of warning to other parents. In South Australia, it is illegal for childcare centres to decline enrolment on those grounds.

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• Another two cases of legionnaires’ disease have been reported in central Sydney, bringing the total number of patients to five in the current outbreak. Both of the new cases are men who were in theCBD at about the same time as three people who were diagnosed last week.

• The ACT Government has outlined six projects to improve Canberra Hospital’s emergency department including new specialised staff positions to streamline work flow, a medical engagement strategy, and a committee to identify and manage long-stay patients.

• Victoria state’s Health Minister Jill Hennessy told the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee (PAEC) there were 41,557 people on the waiting list, less than under the previous government.  Ms Hennessy said she was committed to turning around ambulance response times and told the hearing there was good early progress, but there was significant work still to be done.

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• The 2014-2015 Victorian Population Health survey found only 5 per cent of Victorians met the Australian Dietary Guidelines recommendations of two serves of fruit and five serves of vegetables a day. Cancer Council’s dietician, Allison Ginn, said that an estimated 1,293 cases of bowel cancer would be prevented if Australians were having enough fruit and vegetables and overall, 4 per cent of cancers would be prevented if people had enough fruit and vegetables.

• A new mother has accused staff at Canberra’s Centenary Hospital for Women and Children of leaving her in blood-soaked sheets for more than an hour and a half after giving birth.

• Under the initiative to begin next year, students at 100 state secondary schools will be able to make an appointment to see a doctor on school grounds one day a week. Some medical groups, including the Australian Medical Association, are concerned children will be able to access medication like the pill without their parents’ approval.

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• The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has used the first day of the election campaign to ask its 30,000 member GPs to put up posters in waiting rooms and speak to patients about the Government’s freeze on Medicare rebates.

• Patients will not be charged for medication from Tasmanian hospital pharmacies from today as allied health workers escalate industrial action. The workers are angry they do not have their own representative on the newly established seven-member executive team appointed by new Tasmanian Health Service (THS) CEO David Alcorn.

• At the age of 36, Danielle Tindle has been given an ultimatum — your money or your life. A decade after surviving Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Dr Tindle is critically ill with another rare cancer. But this time, she is being forced to pay thousands of dollars for potentially life-saving drugs which are available at minimal cost to other patients under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

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• Social pressures are forcing people to cut back on their sleep, contributing to a “global sleep crisis”, the research is based on data collected through the free smartphone app Entrain, launched in 2014 to help users fight jetlag.

• Singer Janet Jackson’s pregnancy on the verge of turning 50 is an unrealistic benchmark for most women, said Dr Vamsee Thalluri of Adelaide firm Repromed.

• Dr Gabrielle Briggs, a post-doctoral researcher with the University of Newcastle, based at John Hunter Hospital’s trauma unit in New South Wales, is studying the effects of a blood-based protein on the regeneration of stem cells after trauma is hopeful her findings could pave the way for better treatments.