Author: healthprofessionalradio

Overview

• The Federal Government is expected to step up its response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa today by announcing assistance for volunteers to travel to the region.

• A private company has shut down a cutting-edge medical imaging machine in Tasmania after state and federal governments spent millions to offer the same service.

• Namibia’s Supreme Court says HIV-positive women have been forcibly sterilised after giving birth, in a decision being hailed by activists as a victory for women throughout Africa.

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• The Telederm service was been developed by the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine and is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health under the Rural Health Outreach Fund (RHOF).

• Two leading Sydney surgeons are calling on health authorities to make weight loss surgery available in the public health system to prolong people’s lives and save the public purse from the costs of obesity-related illnesses.

• A Tamworth-based GP with 25 years experience has been recognised at the conference of the Rural Doctors Association of Australia and the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine.

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• Australian students will soon be learning how to use 3D printing to churn out living replacement body parts, as universities team with their European counterparts to offer a world-first degree course.

• An investigation has been launched by the Federal Government into whether a leading healthcare company potentially broke laws that ban offering incentives for doctors to over-service.

• A recent study found paracetamol to be the leading cause of liver failure in children in Australia and New Zealand. The researchers identified 54 cases of liver failure in two children’s hospitals between 2002 and 2012.

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• Two neurologists whose work has paved the way for personalising treatments for different types of epilepsy will be honoured tonight.

• Medibank Private’s broker allocation has been eight times over-subscribed, the first indication of hot demand for the float.

• The Victorian Opposition has promised to lock-in minimum staffing levels for nurses if it wins next month’s state election.