Hoping to appeal to millions of needle-phobic diabetics, drugmakers Sanofi and Mannkind have launched Afrezza, an insulin that's inhaled, rather than injected. Afrezza was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration last June for patients with either Type 1 ...
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Nurse’s Ebola infection possibly linked to visor
A British nurse who contracted Ebola whilst working in Sierra Leone possibly caught the virus by wearing a visor and not goggles in a situation better suited to the latter, an investigation has suggested. The report, by Save the Children, ...
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The federal government is to commit $54.5 million over four years towards dementia support services for the establishment of a number of new Severe Behaviour Response Teams (SBRT). In a statement, assistant minister for social services Mitch Fifield explained that ...
More »Doctors confirm: Screen time affects teens
Parents have long suspected it, but now doctors have proof: the more time teenagers spend on computers or mobile phones, the less they sleep, especially if the gadget is used just before bedtime. The evidence is so strong that health ...
More »Brough calls for GP payment to be dumped
A Liberal MP has called for the co-payment on GP visits to be dumped, as questions swirl about Tony Abbott's leadership. Queensland MP Mal Brough says Medicare spending on GP visits is not out of control. This contradicts the message from the government ...
More »Bulk-billing and quick visits not linked
Patients who have short GP appointments are no more likely to be bulk-billed than those who have longer appointments, a study has found. The survey of nearly 2500 Australians, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, found there was no ...
More »Nurses dig in over RDNS service changes
Victorian nurses are calling on the state’s Royal District Nursing Service to stage the introduction of its new services model over a longer time period and are demanding a range of guarantees for any staff the changes affect. The demands come ...
More »Young nurse launches support network for peers
Brisbane-based woman founds organisation to keep the innovation and vitality of younger staff in the fold. Out of frustration over the lack of support for young staff, a Brisbane-based woman has established the Young Nurses Association. Nurse Emmy-Lou Hamley founded ...
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OA honours nurse as reformer, educator
A nurse and academic with almost half a century of international and Australian experience has received one of the highest awards in the 2015 Australia Day honours. Dr Di Brown, who arrived in Australia in 1973 to work in the ...
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