Cervical cancer screenings plummet
The goal to wipe out cervical cancer could be severely impacted by COVID-19 with fears over a massive drop in women screening for the disease.
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COVID alert: Fragments found in Ipswich sewage
Viral fragments of COVID-19 have turned up in testing of wastewater at the Carole Park treatment plant at Ellen Grove. Chief Health Officder Jeannette Young said authorities were taking the find seriously and anyone with symptoms should get tested.
State’s exhausted young doctors fear making drastic mistakes
Nearly half of Queensland’s trainee doctors are so exhausted they’re worried they’ll make a clinical mistake, according to the latest Australian Medical Association Queensland public hospital report card.
COVID nurse takes action over ‘character assassination’
Queensland’s top three COVID-19 policymakers and a Labor MP have been taken to the Human Rights Commission over their alleged treatment of a coronavirus-positive aged care nurse.
AFL contacts every GF attendee over ‘unsafe’ wristbands
Authorities have raised serious concerns over wristbands that were handed out to 30,000 fans at the AFL Grand Final at the Gabba on Saturday night, with fears the button batteries inside are not properly secured and present a major health risk.
Dialysis or die? Agonising dilemma for country patients
Rural Queenslanders are being forced to make the decision to die rather than face travelling hundreds of kilometres every day for six hours of gruelling kidney dialysis.
Patient dies after untrained wardie forced to do CPR
A wardie has been left traumatised after he was forced to help a nurse perform CPR on a patient in the emergency department of a major southeast Queensland hospital – but Health Minister Steven Miles says staffing levels at the facility are appropriate.
Downside to Aussies living longer lives
A baby born today is expected to live six years longer than their parents but new research shows that’s where the good news could end.
Urgent COVID-19 vaccine message that needs to get out now
A top Queensland virologist believes that unless this urgent message is delivered to all Australians fast a future COVID-19 vaccine may be virtually useless.
Unprecedented success for fisheries
None of Australia’s Commonwealth-managed fisheries has been subject to overfishing for the seventh year in a row, according to a new report.
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