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IV 'cocktails' under regulator's spotlight

AAP - 26-11-2022

Australians are at risk of wasting hundreds of dollars on intravenous infusion "cocktails" marketed with dodgy and misleading promises, the medical regulator warns.

 
Migraine, ulcer treatments to be cheaper

AAP - 26-09-2022

Medicines for migraines, stomach ulcers and other conditions will become cheaper next month as the Albanese government adds new treatments to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

 
Call for urgent climate-health action plan

AAP - 05-09-2022

Health leaders are calling for the rapid rollout of a climate-health action plan as floods and extreme heat kill Australians. Forty health and medical organisations

 
Drug treatment services impacted by COVID

AAP - 27-07-2022

More than 130,000 Australians were treated for alcohol and other drugs during the pandemic, marking a 22 per cent increase over six years, new data shows. People

 
New SA MP takes on suicide prevention role

AAP - 26-07-2022

A first-term South Australian MP has been appointed the state's new advocate for suicide prevention. Nadia Clancy will work alongside Health Minister Chris

 
Ban on UK blood donors overturned

AAP - 25-07-2022

Etienne Gould-Noonan was born 14 weeks early, the size of a Coke bottle. His parents, Carmen Gould and Jonathon Noonan, couldn't donate blood to their desperately

 
UK review backs raising smoking age

AAP - 10-06-2022

The legal age of sale for cigarettes in England should be raised by one year every year until eventually no one can buy tobacco products, a government-commissioned review

 
Austria makes blood donation equal

AAP - 21-05-2022

Austria is relaxing its blood donation rules, which at present stop many gay and bisexual men as well all trans people from donating, Health Minister Johannes Rauch has announced.

 
Albanese promises health, Indigenous voice

AAP - 16-05-2022

Labor leader Anthony Albanese has used a campaign trip to the Northern Territory to announce significant funding for Medicare and to reiterate his support for an Indigenous

 
Qld kicks off health practitioner laws

AAP - 12-05-2022

Health practitioners will be more closely scrutinised and those who pose a risk to community health and safety face new punishments under proposed Queensland laws, set to

 

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