Private health rebate warning
UP to 25 per cent of higher-income earners would downgrade their cover if the government succeeds in means-testing the $4 billion private health insurance rebate.
Health
New drugs may be blocked by subsidy row
MEDICINE companies have warned they may hold back new anti-diabetes drugs and other medicines after the deferral of taxpayer subsidies on eight new drugs.
Slash science and you cut into our future
MANGLING medical research would have disastrous knock-on effects across society and the economy.
Abbott and Gillard play their mental health cards
JULIA Gillard is working on a big-ticket mental health package for next month’s budget.
Fear of cruellest cut sparks revolt
THE prospect medical research funding will be slashed has outraged the community.
Research cuts will lead to brain drain
AT the not-so-tender age of 40, medical researcher Cath Suter is “still considered a young researcher”.
Research fellows petition Canberra
MEDICAL researchers have told Julia Gillard that slashing millions in funding would trigger an exodus of talent.
‘A third of drinkers want to get drunk’
MORE than four million Australians, one-third of all drinkers, say they consume alcohol with the intention of getting drunk.
Childcare reforms ‘will shut centres’
THREE Gillard government ministers have been warned childcare centres will bust unless reforms to increase staff-child ratios are stalled.
Gillard to press health rebate cuts
JULIA Gillard has confirmed she will press ahead with plans to tighten eligibility for taxpayer-funded private health insurance rebates in the May budget.
Beer-free town toasts success
THE Cape York has finished its life as the pub with no beer and will now be turned into a cultural conservation and community activity centre.
Researchers up in arms over $400m cuts
THOUSANDS of usually mild-mannered medical researchers were mobilised into placard-waving protesters yesterday in reaction to rumoured cuts to research.
Vision has Roxon revved up
HEALTH Minister Nicola Roxon is riding waves of excitement as she unveils the draft concept of operations for personally controlled e-health records.
Saving medical research is a no-brainer
IT’S an area where Australia punches above its weight and will save money long term.
Doctors slam `misguided strategies’
Doctors have accused the federal government’s health statistics body of wildly overstating the number of hospital patients who could be seen by GPs
Roxon’s gone too far, says Nobel winner
NOBEL laureate Barry Marshall has criticised the Gillard government’s plan to wrap cigarette packs in “sickening” images, saying it goes too far.
Ear damage rife in Aboriginal children
ONE in five indigenous children has ruptured ear drums, causing hearing loss that subsequently hampers their education and social interactions.
Disabled kids ‘being let down’
THE Productivity Commission has been accused of failing to address the needs of children with a disability.
Big Tobacco to fight on over packaging
THE tobacco industry will take its fight over plain packaging to the Federal Court.
Hunting for ways to stem disease
AFTER working with Huntington’s disease researchers in California biochemist Daniel Hatters knew he’d found a way to put his skills to use.
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