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Low blood donation storages as sickness grips Victoria

Low blood donation storages as sickness grips Victoria

Lifeblood Red Cross is calling on new donors to step up, as sickness plagues Victoria.

Worker wins legal fight in engineered stone safety fail

Worker wins legal fight in engineered stone safety fail

Worker wins legal fight in engineered stone safety fail

Worker wins legal fight in engineered stone safety fail

A stone supplier has copped the first fine of its kind after exposing a worker to silica dust and the risk of serious illness over almost seven years.

Nurses open beds after pay agreement with government

Nurses open beds after pay agreement with government

Nurses open beds after pay agreement with government

Nurses open beds after pay agreement with government

Nurses and midwives have suspended escalated industrial action after reaching an in-principle agreement with the Victorian government over pay and conditions.

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Funding package to help women who suffer miscarriages

Funding package to help women who suffer miscarriages

A $9.5 million funding package to help women who have experienced miscarriage has been announced by the federal government.

Under-pressure emergency departments get more nurses

Under-pressure emergency departments get more nurses

Two hospitals under critical pressure to serve Sydney communities will be the first to benefit from NSW changes to staffing ratios.

Aussies chipping away at their super for dental work

Aussies chipping away at their super for dental work

Australia's medical regulator is investigating claims dentists are encouraging patients to access their super to pay for dental treatments.

Review sparked after three deaths at mental health unit

Review sparked after three deaths at mental health unit

Multiple deaths at a Brisbane hospital have sparked an independent review, with Queensland's public mental health services under fire.

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Six deaths under review after hospital failure claims

Six deaths under review after hospital failure claims

Six deaths under review after hospital failure claims

Six deaths under review after hospital failure claims

A coroner has been asked to investigate six deaths after allegations a senior hospital staff member didn't report them as legally required.

All clear for pharmacy prescriptions in 'win for women'

All clear for pharmacy prescriptions in 'win for women'

All clear for pharmacy prescriptions in 'win for women'

All clear for pharmacy prescriptions in 'win for women'

Women suffering from urinary tract infections can keep getting treatment at NSW pharmacies, rather than having to visit a doctor, as a trial is made permanent.

Kids reeling as bullying, screen time take heavy toll

Kids reeling as bullying, screen time take heavy toll

Kids reeling as bullying, screen time take heavy toll

Kids reeling as bullying, screen time take heavy toll

Parents and their children are struggling to cope with cost-of-living pressures, the over-use of technology and lingering effects of the pandemic.

Cheaper drugs for cancer, kidney disease patients

Cheaper drugs for cancer, kidney disease patients

Cheaper drugs for cancer, kidney disease patients

Cheaper drugs for cancer, kidney disease patients

Medicines to help women battling endometrial cancer and for people with symptoms of chronic kidney disease will be subsidised, saving patients thousands.

Doctors demand answers over end-of-life care funding

Doctors demand answers over end-of-life care funding

Doctors demand answers over end-of-life care funding

Doctors demand answers over end-of-life care funding

A peak medical body is calling for urgent end-of-life care funding in the Queensland budget and an explanation as to where previous funding has gone.

Elective surgery target slashed by Victorian government

Elective surgery target slashed by Victorian government

Elective surgery target slashed by Victorian government

Elective surgery target slashed by Victorian government

Workforce shortages and non-invasive technology is being blamed for the Victorian government lowering its target to deliver 240,000 elective surgeries a year.

Design and death: palliative care needs more creativity

Design and death: palliative care needs more creativity

Design and death: palliative care needs more creativity

Design and death: palliative care needs more creativity

Experts say there needs to be greater design innovation in palliative care but attempts at change are being hamstrung by state governments.

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Doctors underwhelmed by emergency department review

A review of Tasmania's hospital emergency departments has come up short and state and federal governments need to do more, Australia's peak medical body says.

Childhood upbringing linked to mental health conditions

Research has revealed the link between childhood maltreatment and mental health conditions, with calls for the government to treat it as public health priority.

Increased cost fears with no delay in stone ban

Queensland builders fear the government's decision to scrap a transition period ahead of the engineered stone ban will increase costs to the industry.

Women needed in medical research to prevent gender bias

Medical research is still a men’s game, despite the fact almost half the nation's doctors are women, an internationally renowned anaesthesia researcher says.

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Pelvic pain treatments 'outdated' anaesthetists told

A meeting of anaesthetists has been told medical practitioners are offered little training on the range of treatment options available for chronic pelvic pain.

Anxiety clinic calms kids before medical procedures

A pre-surgery anxiety clinic in Brisbane has been working to calm worried children before they undergo medical tests or procedures.

Cyber breach impacts family violence, sex assault data

Data from 4000 people who used Monash Health's family violence and sexual assault support units across two decades has been caught in a data breach.

Sleep could hold secret to recovery from serious injury

Poor sleep affects up to 90 per cent of people who suffer from chronic pain, but health practitioners rarely considered it a central part of their treatment.

Discovery brings universal flu vaccine one step closer

Scientists are a step closer to developing a universal flu vaccine that could replace yearly jabs thanks to a new discovery made in Melbourne.

New hope for Aussies battling early stage breast cancer

Australians who face a high chance of cancer returning have been given new hope with the federal government expanding a treatment subsidy.

Half of nurses, midwives considering leaving profession

Nearly 10,000 healthcare workers are fed up with understaffing and exhaustion and are considering leaving the industry, a union says.

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