The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) announced the appointment of John Gregg as Chief Executive, following the retirement of its current Chief Executive, Adjunct Professor Alison Verhoeven in June. “On behalf of the Board ...
Researchers at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School are reporting the first instance of COVID-19 triggering a rare recurrence of potentially serious blood clots in people’s arms. The discovery, published in the journal Viruses, improves the ...
The Helping Adolescents Thrive Toolkit The Helping Adolescents Thrive Toolkit, launched today, provides programmatic guidance for people working in the health, social services, education and justice sectors on how to implement strategies for adolescent mental ...
The 6th UN Global Road Safety Week highlights the benefits of low-speed streets in urban areas and calling on policy-makers to limit speeds to 30 km/h (20 mph) on streets where pedestrians, cyclists and others ...
Long working hours led to 745 000 deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016, a 29 per cent increase since 2000, according to the latest estimates by the World Health Organization and the ...
A simple surgery saves patients with heart arrhythmia from often-lethal strokes, says a large international study led by McMaster University. Researchers found that removing the left atrial appendage — an unused, finger-like tissue that can ...
Pregnant women who develop severe COVID-19 infections that require hospitalization for pneumonia and other complications may not be more likely to die from these infections than non-pregnant women. In fact, they may have significantly lower ...
Antibiotic resistance in E. coli has been steadily increasing since the early 2000s despite attempts to control it, a new study suggests. In the biggest genomic survey of E. coli to date, which took more than 16 years ...
Moderate alcohol intake — defined as no more than one alcoholic drink for women and two for men per day — has been associated with a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease when compared ...
In response to the final report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (the Royal Commission), the Australian Government is delivering a $17.7 billion aged care reform package. The reforms will provide ...
As the COVID-19 cases continue to rise in India, doctors have begun to notice another alarming trend. Some COVID-19 patients who have recently been released from the hospital came back with symptoms like sinus pain, ...
Watching meaningful movies, those that we find moving and poignant, can make us feel more prepared to deal with life’s challenges and want to be a better person, a new study found. The findings point ...
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