Author: healthprofessionalradio

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• Experts have suggested the Government could feasibly bypass the Senate to introduce some elements of the Medicare GP co-payment.

• New research has revealed Queensland’s south-west and southern inland has the state’s highest proportion of melanoma cases.

• A leukaemia survivor and an old bushman are among a group of people who have begun an epic charity horse trek from western Queensland to Tasmania.

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• Almost 400 people in a town in Victoria’s east, believed to be Bairnsdale, will be tested for HIV after coming into contact with a health worker who had been diagnosed with the virus.

• A national study into strokes has revealed the disease is costing the country billions in lost productivity and wages every year.

• People tend to choose friends that are genetically similar to themselves, so much so that a person’s social circle could be made up of their fourth cousins, scientists say.

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• UNSW Australia has awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc) to Garvan’s Professor Ted Kraegen. The degree is accorded in recognition of a body of work that has made a significant contribution to a field of knowledge.

• The Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service (GCHHS) has revealed that about 48,000 patient X-rays have not been reviewed by a radiologist.

• Health services need to have a greater awareness of the warning signs to prevent more children being killed by their parents, according to researchers from Monash University.

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• Medical imaging companies have been accused of exploiting a Medicare loophole to charge patients and the government more for services.
  

• Voluntary euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke is being investigated by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, which supervises the registration of doctors qualified to practice.

• Imagine having an ultra high-resolution display built directly into a pair of contact lenses. This could be the future of digital displays thanks to scientists at Oxford University.

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• A vaccine that protects against four strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can lead to cervical cancer, does not increase the risk of blood clots in women, new research has found.

• Plant-eating tropical fish species are causing serious damage to algae and kelp forests in sub-tropical and temperate regions around the world, an international team of experts warn.

• More than half of Australian toddlers are eating more than the recommended daily intake of salt, researchers at Deakin University have found.

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• Cuts to the Tackling Indigenous Smoking program in this year’s budget will contribute to the early deaths of Aboriginal smokers, a former race discrimination commissioner has warned.

• New research has revealed junior elite athletes as young as 12 are using performance-enhancing drugs.

• A nurse arrested in Victoria is accused of giving deadly shots of insulin to two elderly residents of a nursing home in Ballina, in New South Wales.