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The following health and related news items are sourced from National, State and online news, current affairs and opinion sites from January 2008. News is archived monthly into the News Archives
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International News
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National News
Study backs state health woes - 31 January, 2008
Complaints by states and territories that the commonwealth is forcing them to do the heavy lifting on healthcare have been bolstered by new data...More
Database to compare public and private hospitals - 31 January, 2008
The Rudd Government will demand the states and territories create a single set of data for public and private hospitals to pinpoint failures...More
Call to add healthcare to apology - 30 January, 2008
Members of the Stolen Generation should receive private healthcare benefits for the rest of their lives to make the formal apology to be delivered by Kevin Rudd meaningful and not merely symbolic...More
Climate threat to human health - 28 January, 2008
Climate change will have a huge impact on human health...More
Indigenous health gets $10m gift - 26 January, 2008
A fresh assault on the woeful state of indigenous health is about to begin after an anonymous donor pledged $10million to the University of Sydney..More
Hospital beds 'top health priority' - 22 January, 2008
Opening thousands of extra public hospital beds should be the federal Government's top priority when it uses the May budget to translate it health promises into spending commitments...More
Roxon details nursing bonus carve-up - 21 January, 2008
Public hospitals in the eastern states will secure the lion's share of a new $6000 bonuses to lure former nurses back into the workforce...More
Research ratings to help donors - 19 January, 2008
Professor Warwick Anderson is a powerful and respected figure in Australian medical research, one of a small band of gatekeepers in charge of millions of dollars of government funding that will, ultimately, lead to breakthroughs or just broken hearts...More
PM fast track to lure back nurses - 16 January, 2008
The Rudd Government has moved to arrest the nursing shortfall by fast-tracking the introduction of incentives to lure out-of-work nurses back to hospitals...More
$2bn health fix to target admissions - 16 January, 2008
State health ministers have been ordered to design ways to admit fewer people to hospital and release patients only when they are ready to leave, in exchange for incentive payments to be rolled out by the Rudd Government...More
Rein puts premium on healthcare - 16 January, 2008
Wealthy, privately insured and not in need of emergency surgery, Therese Rein epitomises the type of patients best treated in the private hospital system...More
Medicare to set up healthcare identifier service - 15 January, 2008
Medicare will create individual healthcare identifiers for Australians from personal information held in its databases under a $51.6 million contract with the National E-Health Transition Authority...More
New hospital cash to cut waiting times - 14 January, 2008
The states have reached agreement with the federal Government on dividing up $150 million of funds to cut surgery waiting lists...More
Obesity link found in reduced productivity in the workplace - 12 January, 2008
Being productive at work can be difficult at this time of year, but maybe even more so for obese workers...More
$19m package makes hearty difference - 12 January, 2008
Youth mental health services nationwide are to receive a significant boost from the federal Government's announcement of $19 million in grants...More
Roxon's new chief - 8 January, 2008
Health Minister Nicola Roxon has appointed Mick Reid, the former director-general of the NSW Health Department, as her chief of staff...More
Online search may risk health - 31 December, 2007
Australian research has found that people searching the internet only take in what they want to read, potentially placing their health at risk...More
State News
Sixty percent obese in far-west NSW - 28 January, 2008
More than 60 percent of the population in parts of far-western NSW are overweight or obese, statistics compiled by the state government show...More
States do Swan's bidding on health - 15 January, 2008
The new Government has tested the co-operation of the states by pushing through an unequal carve-up of federal health funding...More
New nurses 'only add to burden' - 4 January, 2008
A record number of graduate nurses will not solve NSW's health problems -- it will only place more pressure on the state's already stretched hospital system, according to the nurses association and the Opposition...More
Kids the priority in waiting list cuts - 21 December, 2007
An extra 2600 operations will be conducted in Western Australia next year, with children given priority, as federal money aimed at cutting waiting lists begins to flow...More
Verdict grim in hospital report - 21 December, 2007
Poor management, a culture of bullying and a lack of resources, including nurses and beds, are to blame for a series of patient tragedies and mishaps at Sydney's troubled Royal North Shore Hospital, according to a new report...More
More for hospitals in GST deal - 20 December, 2007
Extra roads and hospitals built with commonwealth money could be NSW's compensation for lost GST revenues under the "new federalism" deal proposed by Kevin Rudd...More
International News
Medicare coverage decisions often based on trials in irrelevant populations - 31 January, 2008
The Centrers for Medicaid and Medicare Services often make national coverage determinations based on clinical trials among subjects whose demographics differ substantially from those of Medicare beneficiaries...More
Panel kills Schwartzenegger's Health Plan - 30 January, 2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's audacious plan to arrange medical insurance for nearly all Californians - one watched as a potential model for the nation - was rejected Monday by the state Senate...More
EU Health Chief uses food labels to fight obesity - 30 January, 2008
The European Union's health chief wants to introduce tougher food labeling rules to combat the growing problem of obesity across Europe, but is facing stiff political and industrial opposition...More
More hitting cost limit on health benefits - 29 January, 2008
A small but growing number of American families beset by major medical problems are learning the hard way that simply having health insurance is sometimes not enough...More
Health insurance options that squeeze individuals - 26 January, 2008
Many people have no choice but to buy healthcare coverage on their own, despite its downsides...More
Insurers stop paying for care linked to errors - 15 January, 2008
Health insurers are taking a new tack in a bid to improve patient safety and reduce health-care costs: refusing to pay -- or let their patients be billed -- for hospital errors...More
Emergency care waits found to be on the rise - 15 January, 2008
Patients are waiting longer for care in the nation's emergency rooms, a potentially deadly result of the shrinking number of emergency departments and rising demand for emergency services...More
Obesity now a 'lifestyle choice' for Americans, expert says - 12 January, 2008
As adult obesity balloons in the United States, being overweight has become less of a health hazard and more of a lifestyle choice, the author of a new book argues...More
Four ways to live longer - 8 January, 2008
People who drink moderately, exercise, quit smoking and eat five servings of fruit and vegetables each day live on average 14 years longer than people who adopt none of these behaviours, researchers said yesterday...More
Among rich nations, U.S has highest number of preventable deaths - 8 January, 2008
More than 100,000 Americans die each year from lack of timely, effective medical care, according to a study that found the U.S. has the highest rate of preventable deaths among 19 industrialized nations...More
For uninsured, Medicare makes a healthy impact - 1 January, 2008
Uninsured people 55 and older, particularly those with diabetes and cardiovascular disease, significantly reduce their risk of declining health after they enroll in Medicare at 65...More
Other Reports
Implementing chronic disease self-management in community settings: lessons from Australian demonstration projects
Australian Health Review full report
Review of Australia's consumer policy framework: draft report
Productivity Commission full report
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