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New study shows tamper-resistant tablet turns users off drug

AAP - 11-01-2018

A tamper-resistant tablet designed to stop drug users from crushing and then injecting a commonly-abused painkiller appears to be working, a new study shows.

 
Public hospitals being privatised by stealth

HealthTimes - 06-12-2017

New figures released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) confirm that the public hospital system is being privatised by stealth, as public hospitals increasingly

 
La Trobe health research attracts record funding

HealthTimes - 06-12-2017

La Trobe University has secured more than $16 million in this year’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grant awards. It is the largest amount

 
Time for costly medicine monopolies to go from TPP trade talks

HealthTimes - 13-11-2017

Negotiators from 11 countries have been racing to resurrect the near-dead Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement before the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

 
Sickest patients to be hit by more medicare cuts

HealthTimes - 01-11-2017

Some of the sickest patients in Australia’s health system – including those suffering from cancer, heart disease or stroke – are about to be hit with another

 
Victorian Bupa nursing homes are set to stop work in a bid to improve staffing

AAP - 06-10-2017

The "overstretched" nurses and carers at nine Victorian Bupa nursing homes are set to stop work in a bid to improve staffing levels, wages and conditions.

 
Substandard aged care a result of inadequate staffing levels

Nicole Madigan - 04-10-2017

Residents in aged care facilities are receiving substandard care due to inadequate staffing levels - a consequence of providers being permitted to self-determine adequate

 
Private patients treated in public hospitals is lose-lose: APHA

HealthTimes - 26-09-2017

The public hospital system’s continued rorting of private health insurance forces privately insured patients to pay higher premiums and those without insurance to sit

 
Applications open for a new National Panel of Assessors for Disability Employment Services

HealthTimes - 19-09-2017

The Australian Government has opened applications for a new panel of assessment service providers for people with disability in the workplace. The program was

 

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