Cancer scare gas project closed
LOCALS have cheered the closure of a trial underground coal gasification project.
Health
Surgery errors take their toll
EIGHT Australian patients died or suffered major permanent disability in 2008-09 after doctors operated on the wrong part of their body.
Costs set trend to avoid doctor
SIGNIFICANT numbers of Australians are putting off trips to the chemist and are cutting down on visits to their GP because of the costs.
Hope of keeping drug risk in check
AUSTRALIAN researchers say they have cracked part of the mystery of why some drugs cause higher rates of potentially fatal abnormal heart rhythms.
Pay issue becomes a pain
AS an aged-care nurse for 20 years, Terri Burrell knows what is keeping workers under pressure.
Antioxidants can help men become dads
DIETARY advice for couples trying to have a baby has long focused on women, but evidence is growing that men can do their bit to boost their chances.
Rural health ‘short-changed’
RURAL Australians are being short-changed to the tune of at least $2.1 billion — and the gap with their city cousins is getting wider.
Lead has Port lovers nervous
MIKE Kenny loves that nobody thought enough of his home town of Fremantle to knock over its old buildings and build shiny new ones.
Government forced to act on Agent Orange
CONTROVERSY over the impact of the herbicide Agent Orange on Vietnam veterans and their children left the Fraser government struggling.
Doctors welcome health plan
AUSTRALIA’S peak doctors’ group has backed the Gillard government’s creation of 46 local hospital networks.
Super clinics fail to deliver on service
THE federal government’s $645 million GP super clinic rollout is failing to meet its goal of providing bulk-billing and after-hours doctors.
GP clinic with everything, except GPs
FOR patients, it is as bad as a pub with no beer. The latest Gillard government GP super clinic to open its doors has no doctors.
No funds for critical health plans
THE Gillard government is dragging its feet on approving subsidies for new high-cost drugs
Five million swine flu doses down drain
MORE than five million doses of swine flu vaccine, bought for $140 million last year, will be destroyed by next month because so few have been used.
Roxon threatens premier over health funds
Nicola Roxon has threatened to withdraw funding from Victoria if Ted Baillieu refuses to honour the reform agreement signed by his predecessor.
AMA attacks e-health record plan
THE Gillard government’s $466 million e-health record “won’t work” , the Australian Medical Association says
Baillieu in feud on health reforms
A FEUD over national health reforms has erupted along party lines, with new Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu accusing Canberra of misleading the public.
Medicare rorts watchdog on hold
THE watchdog in charge of catching doctors who rort Medicare has had its operation suspended.
Cancer scans ‘too expensive’
MEDICARE rebates for X-rays, MRIs and CT scans have not been adjusted for 13 years and some are paying thousands out of their own pockets.
Indigenous heart illness warning
NARROWING the life expectancy gap between indigenous and other Australians may prove even harder than expected.
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