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AMA Queensland is urging all Queensland men to take greater care of their health and so reduce their chance of developing potentially preventable disease.
With a four-fold increase in swine flu cases within the last week, Filligent, the Australian-led biotech company, is mobilising stocks of its anti-infective BioMask to help combat the spread of Influenza A (H1N1) across Australia.
A blood-pressure medicine has been shown to reverse the effects of early-stage liver failure in some patients.
As millions of dollars continue to be spent on anti-smoking advertising, an Australian study has been the first to identify that anti-smoking advertisements reduce tobacco cravings in smokers but are not enough to make them quit
Deaths of children aged under five years have dropped by 27% globally since 1990, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) estimates.
State-of-the art laboratories opened recently in Melbourne by Innovation Minister, Senator Kim Carr, will enhance Australia’s on-going world-leading research into preventing and treating hearing loss.
The nation’s largest independent disease prevention groups have called for immediate and serious action to control Australia’s growing weight problem following the release of new data showing 62% of Australians adults are now overweight or obese.
Launched worldwide in Canberra, Australia, IBERA – Indigenous Body Education Resource Animations, is an innovative tool designed for Indigenous Australians, which aims to help ‘close the gap’ between Indigenous and non-Indigenous life expectancy rates in Australia.
The gap in cancer care outcomes between rural and metropolitan Australia should begin to close significantly thanks to $560 million in the 2009-10 Budget to build a network of regional cancer centres.
The Fred Hollows Foundation has released its results for 2008, with a record 176,472 people receiving sight-saving eye operations and treatments and over 1.3 million patients being screened in 18 countries worldwide.
The Australian Osteopathic Association (AOA) has supported calls for the Australian government to list back pain as a national health priority area in Australian, after the publication of an article in the Medical Journal of Australia.
The Complementary Healthcare Council and the Australian Self Medication Industry are warning consumers to stay away from complementary medicines or medications that claim to treat or prevent swine flu.
Australians must remember that screening remains vital in the fight against bowel cancer says the country’s peak professional body for gastroenterologists.
The leader of dementia research in CSIRO’s Preventative Health National Research Flagship, Dr Cassandra Szoeke, says a new report highlights the challenge the nation faces with the number dementia sufferers predicted to double to 465,000 by 2030.
Hundreds of patients being treated for renal cell carcinoma – a major form of kidney cancer – will benefit from Government-subsidised access to sunitinib (Sutent®) under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme from today.
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