NSW Health is urging people who smoke to join the ranks of Australia’s largest quit-smoking group this World No Tobacco Day. The 2021 NSW Population Health Survey shows daily smoking rates decreased from 9.2 per cent ...
Finding the right type of contraception is important. Oral contraception – also known as The Pill – is the most popular and widely used method. In the June edition of Australian Prescriber, Dr Eveline Mu ...
A free flu jab will be available to all NSW residents in a month-long blitz from June 1 in an effort to combat this year’s expected severe influenza season. With a sharp increase in flu ...
A consumer advocate passionate about encouraging people to ask questions and a team of doctors keen to stop low-value and repetitive pathology tests were the winners of the first Choosing Wisely Champion Awards. The awards ...
Darktrace reports that cyber-attacks targeting the health and social care sector in Australia doubled in 2021 compared with data from 2020, and the industry is still the most attacked in Australia in 2022, as covered ...
Here are the latest COVID-19 statistics in the VIC area, including vaccinations and rapid antigen test kit results: There are 550 COVID-19 cases in hospital in Victoria – with 25 active cases in ICU, including ...
NSW Health has identified a probable case of monkeypox in a recently returned traveller to Europe. A man in his 40s developed a mild illness several days after arriving back in Sydney. He subsequently presented ...
An innovative online training program, Read Our Lips Australia, has been launched to help Australians combat the effects of reduced capacity to communicate caused by hearing loss. Hearing loss creates barriers to getting education, employment ...
NSW residents are being urged to book in for their flu shots without delay, with winter just a week away and hospitals already seeing a surge in influenza cases. Health Minister Brad Hazzard said NSW ...
NSW Health has recorded a second death of a person with Japanese encephalitis. Sadly, NSW Health can confirm the man in his 60s from the Corowa area, who was diagnosed with Japanese encephalitis virus in ...
The Andrews Labor Government is delivering a bigger and better emergency department for Melbourne’s booming outer suburbs, with multi-million-dollar expansions at the Werribee Mercy Hospital and Casey Hospital on the way. Minister for Health Martin ...
NPS MedicineWise welcomes the commitment from Labor to review a decision announced in the budget that affects the way quality use of medicines (QUM) is led and funded in Australia. From 1 January 2023, NPS ...
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