Aged care advocates and the Australian Lawyers Alliance are calling on politicians to urgently remove the clause in the proposed aged care legislation – the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response) Bill ...
NSW recorded 1,281 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night. One new case was acquired overseas in the 24 hours to 8pm last night, and 12 previously reported ...
The Australian Lead Identification Consortium (ALIDC) has announced the completion of the purpose-built Australian Drug Discovery Library (ADDL), which sees the relocation of more than 329,000 compounds to its new home at Compounds Australia. Based at Griffith ...
The UK and Australia will share COVID-19 vaccine doses to benefit each other’s life-saving vaccine rollout programmes, the government has announced. Next batch of more than 2 million UK doses delivered to vulnerable countries across ...
A new research project funded by the Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation could transform the way cancer patients with anxiety and depression are treated in the private sector. The Ramsay Adapt project will investigate anxiety and depression in ...
A new social media campaign will form the second phase of the bowel cancer awareness campaign amongst the Aboriginal West Australian community. The campaign encourages eligible people to do the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program ...
Only a quarter of countries worldwide have a national policy, strategy or plan for supporting people with dementia and their families, according to the WHO’s ‘Global status report on the public health response to dementia’, ...
Visitors to Sydney cemeteries are reminded to abide by NSW Health orders to protect against the spread of COVID-19. Cemeteries and Crematoria NSW chairman Dr Stepan Kerkyasharian said cemeteries remain open to the public during ...
A new study conducted by Australian Red Cross reveals that 88% of Australians believe first aid training should be compulsory in high schools across the nation[1], with 70% supporting first aid knowledge as part of ...
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center announced on Tuesday, Aug. 31, that it is following recommendations from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network that encourage cancer patients to receive a third dose of a messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine. The Moderna and ...
As lockdown drags on for yet another month and forcing us to hibernate at home, many of us may be drinking more than usual. A study by the Australian National University found that during the nationwide lockdown ...
Mornington Peninsula Shire is leading the way in stormwater management by building our first coastal bioinfiltration basin at Rye foreshore. The basin located at Elgan Avenue and Point Nepean Road is a heavily vegetated area ...