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Ranks for researchers to boost corporate aid - 25 August, 2008
Health and medical researchers will be ranked on the lead government funding agency's website in an effort to attract private and corporate support...More
Rudd ignoring doctor crisis: GPs - 23 August, 2008
Campaigners demanding decisive government action to ease the GP shortage have written an angry letter to Kevin Rudd, accusing him of ignoring their proposals to fix the crisis...More
Girth by sea: obesity costs Australia $58billion a year - 22 August, 2008
Australia's bulging waistline is busting the budget as well: obesity cost the nation $58 billion this year alone...More
Obesity: a burden society can't afford to shoulder - 22 August, 2008
A new report says Australians are getting fatter and the consequent health and financial costs are rising exponentially. This cannot continue...More
Kevin Rudd's Medicare levy changes face Senate surgery - 20 August, 2008
Kevin Rudd's plan to ease tax penalties for people who fail to take out private health insurance faces surgery in the Senate...More
More mergers expected in health insurance sector - 19 August, 2008
Merger mania among health funds is not over yet, with the industry's regulator aware of several more unannounced deals in the pipeline...More
'Treat junk food like smoking' - 18 August, 2008
Obesity threatens to drive up cancer rates in Australia unless anti-smoking-type laws are introduced to curb junk food consumption, experts warn...More
Australia failing to collect key data on alchol consumption - 18 August, 2008
Doctors say policies to tackle drinking are under threat from a lack on alcohol consumption and warn Australia may become the only OECD nation not to collect the information...More
Doctors' assistants trial 'too risky' - 18 August, 2008
The head of Australia's peak medical body has criticised a plan to introduce US-style physician's assistants who would carry out less complex medical procedures...More
Tougher rules on records urged - 16 August, 2008
Rules on medical records and population-based research may be reformed after a review of privacy laws...More
Overhaul for health - 16 August, 2008
Queensland's beleaguered health department will be restructured yet again, including the abolition of a level of bureaucracy...More
Labor bid to offset health fund exodus - 14 August, 2008
Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon has extended an olive branch to health insurers facing a membership exodus due to government policy changes, offering to consider easing regulatory barriers that stop funds from broadening their product range...More
Health workers to face checks on national register - 13 August, 2008
Patients will be able to check for dodgy doctors under a national registration scheme that could also tighten controls on foreign health workers...More
Health official admits health fund premiums to rise - 12 August, 2008
A senior public servant has conceded for the first time that Kevin Rudd's reforms to the Medicare surcharge will result in increased health fund premiums...More
DIY health plan to ease burden on nation's hospitals - 2 August, 2008
Patients with chronic diseases could be given cash or vouchers to keep them out of the nation's hospitals under a radical overhaul of Medicare...More
State News
Private health reforms 'chaotic' - 25 August, 2008
The ACT Government has broken ranks with its state peers to criticise the commonwealth's "ad hoc, incremental and at times chaotic" reforms to private health insurance..More
Island's kidney disease crisis set to spread - 20 August, 2008
For anyone trying to picture what will happen when the ticking time bomb of lifestyle diseases finally detonates, look no further than northern Tasmania...More
SA to woo doctors with huge pay rises - 19 August, 2008
The Rann Government will launch an interstate campaign to lure doctors to South Australian public hospitals with a massive new salary package...More
Fat fight at children's hospital - 18 August, 2008
A Sydney hospital has become possibly the first in the world to appint a doctor dedicated to treating overweight children in an urgent attempt to tackle the nation's obesity epidemic...More
Lack of dentists in outback forces long waits on patients - 17 August, 2008
Anger is building in the bush as regional Queenslanders have to wait up to three and a half years for basic dental care due to lack of cash and planning...More
Queensland Health bureaucracy slashed - 15 August, 2008
An entire level of Queensland Health's bureacracy will be abolished in an effort to make the controversy-ridden department more efficient...More
Emergency patients for super clinics - 13 August, 2008
The Queensland Government plans to refer thousands of emergency department patients to the first GP super clinic to go to public tender...More
Rogue doctors targeted in Australia-wide scheme - 12 August, 2008
A national scheme to prevent rogue doctors practising in Australia will be in place by 2010, Queensland Health Minister Stephen Robertson says...More
Healthy eating plan targets infants in obesity battle - 3 August, 2008
A landmark fat-busting program will tackle childhood obesity by teaching kids to enjoy the flavours of fruits and vegetables from the time they are infants...More
International News
What 401(k)'s can teach us about consumer driven health plans?- 17 August, 2008
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