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Australia's free childhood vaccination program for rotavirus has dramatically cut the illness in young children. The vaccine was introduced into the national immunisation program in 2007, with the aim of decreasing the social and economic burden of rotavirus. The program ...

Wide variations in the rate of caesarean sections carried out in Europe have raised concerns about whether women are benefiting from best practice. A new study published by the journal BJOG has found that about a quarter of births in ...

Australia's healthcare system is not making best use of available funding when deciding on allocating money to different services, a researcher has argued. Further, the Queensland University of Technology's Elizabeth Martin, who wrote the brief Rationing in Healthcare for the ...

Australia remains a long way from providing everyone with access to quality end-of-life care, the nation’s peak palliative care group states. “We remain a very long way from achieving our goals,” Palliative Care Australia chief executive Liz Callaghan said. The ...

Parents shouldn’t buy into the idea that good babies rest through the night. It’s not long before new parents get asked the loaded cultural question, “Is she a good baby?” Which all new parents understand as code for is the ...

Community and professional health groups have warned that despite the axing of the proposed GP co-payment, the remaining freeze on MBS rebates will still have a negative effect on primary healthcare. In announcing the government’s decision to abandon the policy under which adults without ...