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Healthcare, Hospitals
Latest Australian research highlights moves towards high-value healthcare
Lourdes Antenor Apr 8, 2021

Challenges in moving from volume to value in healthcare were highlighted in a Productivity Commission, a health case study, released last week. “The latest edition

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Hospitals
Workplace Mental Health Summit 2021: Day 1 Key Takeaways
Lourdes Antenor Apr 1, 2021

The first day of the Workplace Mental Health Summit 2021 kicked off with Jim Kelly, Director of Health and Safe Design SafeWork NSW, and with

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falsified
COVID-19
WHO warns of falsified COVID-19 Vaccine: BNT162b2
Lourdes Antenor Mar 29, 2021

This WHO Medical Product Alert refers to falsified COVID-19 Vaccine identified as “BNT162b2” detected in Mexico in February 2021 and recently confirmed as falsified to the

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osteoarthritis
Healthcare, International News
Total knee replacement treatment for patients with knee osteoarthritis
Lourdes Antenor Mar 25, 2021

Knee osteoarthritis is a painful condition that affects over 14 million U.S. adults, many of whom have extreme obesity, defined by body mass index (BMI)

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ageing
Aged Care, Learning - Topics
Attitudes to ageing: an overview of Australian perspectives of health support systems for the older person
Neil Jeyasingam Mar 24, 2021

Objectives: Older adults utilize health care systems to a higher frequency than younger groups, and are more vulnerable to system bias regarding ageing and expectations

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Learning - Topics, Strategy
The Next Generation Workforce
Sue Jauncey Mar 11, 2021

Read about “The Next Generation Workforce” from Registered Psychologist and Founder of Appellon, Sue Janey, where she talks about how Neuropsychological science can provide the

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placebo
Hospitals
A deep dive on the neuroscience of placebo effecs
Lourdes Antenor Mar 5, 2021

A new meta-analysis gives the most detailed look yet at the neuroscience of placebo effects. Much of the benefit that a person gets from taking

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sickle cell disease
Healthcare
Sickle Cell Disease: A complex world of pain in a single gene difference
Lourdes Antenor Mar 2, 2021

A single letter difference in a single gene, inherited from both parents, spells a lifetime of anemia and pain for 20 million people, mostly of

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lab
Healthcare News
Lab-grown ‘mini bile-ducts’ used to repair human liver in medical first
Lourdes Antenor Feb 24, 2021

Scientists have used a technique to grow bile duct organoids – often referred to as ‘mini-organs’ – in the lab and shown that these can

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spinal cord
Healthcare News
Yale scientists repair injured spinal cord using patients’ own stem cells
Lourdes Antenor Feb 24, 2021

Intravenous injection of bone marrow-derived stem cells (MSCs) in patients with spinal cord injuries led to significant improvement in motor functions, researchers from Yale University

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behavior
Hospitals
How people’s behavior can complicate epidemic outcomes
Lourdes Antenor Feb 11, 2021

A new model of disease spread describes how competing economic and health incentives influence social contact – and vice versa. The result is a complex

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dapivirine
Healthcare News
Dapivirine vaginal ring is the new recommended choice for HIV prevention
Lourdes Antenor Jan 28, 2021

WHO today recommended that the dapivirine vaginal ring (DPV-VR) may be offered as an additional prevention choice for women at substantial risk[1] of HIV infection as

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