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The following health and related news items are sourced from National, State and online news, current affairs and opinion sites. News is archived monthly into the News Archives
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Magnate Ralph Sarich's $20m medical gift - 31 July, 2008
Reclusive Perth property mogul and orbital engine inventor Ralph Sarich took corporate generosity to a new level yesterday when made Western Australia's biggest single philanthropic donation...More
Leaving workforce may be unhealthy - 30 July, 2008
Retirement could prove to be a health hazard, with people over 45 years old who work doing a better job of staying well...More
A million to quit funds over levy - 29 July, 2008
Labor has removed the main driver of the recent growth in private health insurance - 20-somethings earning $50,000 a year or more - by raising the threshold for the Medicare levy surcharge...More
Prevention quality better than quantity - 26 July, 2008
While it is true that prevention is better than cure, it does not follow that preventive health care is chepaer than treatment...More
Medicare easy claim hard going - 26 July, 2008
The advent of the push button society was supposed to make life easy...More
Quacks go mainstream as demand for alternative healthcare doubles - 24 July, 2008
Australia's growing fascination with natural therapies - from acupuncture and hypnotherapy to chiropractic - has been reflected in a near-doubling of the number of people working as complimentary healthcare therapists over the past decade...More
Hospital operations on rise - 23 July, 2008
Public hospitals pushed almost 14,000 extra elective surgery patients through their operating theatres in the past six months, but are still battling a surge in demand...More
'Jury out' on threat to public health - 22 July, 2008
Health ministers have played down the threat of the Government's private health insurance reforms dumping thousands of patients on the public system...More
'Health delay' penalties looming - 22 July, 2008
The federal government will be held to account for the first timeover patients' dealys in seeing a GP or finding an aged care bed, under draft targets to go before the Australia's health ministers today...More
New quit smoking program needed - 19 July, 2008
QUIT smoking programs targeting Aboriginal people may need to be redesigned...More
Time to review health insurance policy - 19 July, 2008
That there is so much objection to raising the income thresholds under the Medicare levy surcharge is puzzling...More
No winners from Medicare shift - 11 July, 2008
Its a lose-lose situation... More
Health levy plan to 'hurt poorest': Catholic Church - 11 July, 2008
The Catholic Church - the nation's biggest operator of hospitals after state governments - has warned Kevin Rudd that his move to lift Medicare surcharge levy thresholds will hammer the battlers he wants to help by choking already stressed public wards and lengthening surgical waiting lists...More
Doctors turn away 'chronic' patients - 7 July, 2008
State capitals are feeling the brunt of the nation's doctor shortage, with GPs in these previously well-served areas shutting their doors to new patients due to overwhelming demand...More
Type 1 diabetes rate jumps - 2 July, 2008
New cases of type 1 diabetesa re increasing at the rate of 3 per cent a year - equivalent to an extra 6000 peopel affected between 2000 and 2006...More
Public health study hits boiling point - 2 July, 2008
Coming up with a hot topic for her doctoral research was easy for public health graduate Yan Zhang: her interest is the effect of heatwaves on people...More
Hospitals slower to see patients - 1 July, 2008
Public health emergency departments are seeing a smaller proportion of patients within the recommended time than they did eight years ago - and the federal Government has admitted that "much work lies ahead" to fix the system...More
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Health-care reform, corporate style.
When a company unveils a new plan to rein in health-care costs, workers usually groan. Yet Toyota Motor (TM) is getting rave reviews for the on-site medical center it built at its truck factory in San Antonio..More
Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg join to fight smoking - 24 July, 2008
New York: Microsof founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking...More
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Australia's Health 2008
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report now available
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