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- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration hearings opened Tuesday on a controversial fertilization technique that uses the DNA from three people — two women and one man — with the goal of preventing inherited genetic diseases.
- In New South Wales, Health Minister Fiona Nash is set to a face a grilling at a parliamentary committee hearing over her office’s involvement in the removal of a food star rating website.
- Scientists have reported in the Journal Of Nutritional Biochemistry that by adding strawberries to the diets of 23 healthy volunteers, they were able to significantly lower the amount of LDL and triglyceride fat in their blood by 14 per cent.
- Meanwhile, in the Middle East, a respiratory virus that has killed dozens of people, is widespread in camels and may be jumping directly from camels to humans.
- In Canberra, a big blue bus has set off on a 16-month national tour aimed at helping people cope with depression and anxiety.
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- In QLD, over 300 health workers and supporters gathered outside Cairns hospital in protest of the state government’s plans to put senior doctors on individual work contracts.
- Also in QLD, Townsville MP Ewen Jones has spoken out about the planned federal rollout of a nutritional rating and labelling system for food.
- In Western Australia, the state opposition have said they’ve found further evidence that the state government misled the public about the progress of Fiona Stanley Hospital leading up to the election in March.
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- Queensland Health have announced that 17 hospital patients have been put in danger by a batch of contaminated cancer drugs.
- In Western Australia, the state gov has announced it will cut 250 jobs between Sir Charles Gairdner and Osborne Park hospitals.
- Amid talks of a possible Medicare reform, the federal government is imploring that any changes made to the system will be to ensure sustainability.
- In QLD the state opposition says health minister Lawrence Springborg should launch an investigation into the QLD children’s hospital land deal if he is concerned about it.
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- Federal health minister Peter Dutton has raised the possibility of a Medicare overhaul, and suggested that Australians who can afford to pay more for public healthcare should be doing so.
- In SA, health minister Jack Snelling says the proposed Medicare copayment would severely increase waiting times in public hospitals.
- In QLD, the Mater Hospital will be offered the land beneath the QLD Children’s Hospital for one dollar due to a secretive deal made by the former Bligh government.
- QLD health minister Lawrence Springborg has spoken of introducing legislation to boost immunisation figures.
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- Fijian health authorities are being asked to provide more information on a potential outbreak of dengue fever.
- Western Australia’s former director of general health Kim Snowball has rejected criticism of the state health department regarding planning for the Fiona Stanley hospital.
- In NSW, services at Queanbeyan Hospital will resume as normal after the resolution of a wage dispute between doctors at the hospital and NSW Health.
- In Western Australia, the government has flipped on their previous announcement that they would cut funding to women’s shelters in the north of the state.
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- Refugee advocates have warned the federal government’s call to send 10 children unaccompanied to Nauru detention centre has put the children at serious risk of mental health issues.
- In the Northern Territory, ambulance staff have commenced industrial action to try and end what they’ve called a bullying culture in the Saint John Ambulance Service.
- The Health Services Union has supported the Western Australian Treasurer’s criticism of the health department over the Fiona Stanley Hospital debacle.
- A Sydney-based psychiatrist has been forced to stop travelling to Mudgee, in the mid-west of the state, due to absence of air travel from Sydney.
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- Prime Minister Tony Abbott is being pushed to give full disclosure of when he and his office were informed of a possible conflict-of-interest involving Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash’s chief-of-staff.
- The Australian Medical Association has released its annual Public Hospital Report Card, which shows that many public hospitals are failing to adequately meet public demand and performance targets.
- A Freedom of Information request has revealed a mass resignation of nurses at the Alice Springs Sexual Assault Referral Centre.
- The outgoing under treasurer Tim Marney has revealed Treasury was only given two weeks to scrutinise a multi-billion dollar contract for the Fiona Stanley Hospital.
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- The Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash yesterday told parliament that her chief-of-staff does in fact hold shares in a lobby group.
- In South Australia, residents of the state’s south east will benefit from an extension of telehealth services.Country South SA Medicare Local says it will expand video link services to the region and will now include cardiology, gastroenterology and psychiatry consultations in Naracoorte.
- In far north QLD, residents of Innisfail are being warned to beware of mosquitoes and breeding sites, after a case of dengue fever has been confirmed in the area.
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- Labor’s senate leader Penny Wong has questioned assistant health minister Fiona Nash on the controversial removal of a health department website last week.
- Queensland’s auditor-general has referred several doctors to the Crime and Misconduct Commission to investigate if they have defrauded Queensland Health.
- In QLD, hundreds of residents from the Wide Bay area are being contacted by the state health department for dental treatment, some of whom have been waiting up to 12 years for treatment.
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- A new World Health Organisation report claims that cancer has usurped heart disease as Australia’s deadliest illness. The World Cancer report found that 8.2 million people, including 40,000 Australians, died from cancer in 2012.
- The new CEO of the Royal Flying Doctor Service South-Eastern section, Greg Sam, says collaboration is key to improving healthcare in the region.
- The number of serious medical errors made each year in Australian hospitals has increased from 87 to 107 over the past 12 months. The report from the Productivity Commission included 34 in-patient suicides, 35 medical instruments left inside patients, and 4 cases of the wrong patient or body part being operated on resulting in permanent injury or death.
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