Spending on health is all cure, no cause
Australia spends less than $140 per person per year on preventive health – three times less than several comparable countries – and fails to track how the money is spent or its cost-effectiveness
Natasha Robinson
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Prostate cancer ‘game changer’
A new prostate cancer therapy used only in late-stage treatment where conventional therapy has failed has been found to dramatically improve outcomes for patients in earlier stages.
Cause of killer disease found
The cause of a mystery disease that affects as many as one in 20 women and can cause sudden strokes, heart attacks, kidney failure and brain aneurysms has finally been cracked
‘Visionary’ reforms on access to medicine
A review of Australia’s systems for accessing medicine has said it could slash waiting times for new treatments by 16 months in a majority of cases, proposing 50 reforms.
Innovate or decline, hospitals warned
Private hospitals are facing becoming ‘legacy institutions’ unless they are able to overcome significant barriers to innovation as the sector faces a viability crisis that threatens to further overwhelm the public system.
Fury over private hospital ‘scare tactics’ campaign
The battle over private health has exploded into a bitter public war as health insurers respond with fury to suggestions patients may be denied cancer treatment and maternity care.
IV fluids crisis matched by lack of transparency
The critical shortage in many hospitals across the nation of one of the most vital medicines used during every surgical procedure has never been seen before in this country.
Surgeons call for medicines reform
The nation’s surgical college is calling for a nationally coordinated strategy on saline products.
Plastics proven to devastate health
The finding that the chemicals in many common products are associated with a wide range of health risks is ‘a red flag for the world’, a researcher said.
IV crisis worsens with morphine supplies now low
Supplies of several crucial medicines are running short around the nation, such as liquid morphine products vital to ease the suffering of palliative care patients, including children.
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