Alternative treatments reined in
Health practitioners who spruik unproven and alternative treatments would be required to advise patients of the lack of evidence.
Health
100,000 children on pills for depression
The number of Australian children on antidepressants has doubled to more than 100,000 in six years.
Top eye doctor warns on blindness
A leading ophthalmologist warned hospital directors in 2013 that children were losing the chance of a ‘normal visual life’.
Teenage blood ‘no fountain of youth’
The US drugs regulator has “significant health concerns” about a craze for injections of blood from teenagers to older patients.
Eye doctors fear kids going blind
The head of ophthalmology at a major Sydney children’s hospital says he fears kids with treatable eye conditions are going blind.
Long delays could have cost vision
The mother of a young boy waited eight long months to discover her son had a serious eye condition needing urgent treatment.
Paramedics facing demand for answers
Authorities launched a review into “adverse incidents” stemming from paramedics deciding not to transport patients to hospital.
Aged dying before help arrives
A further 10,000 home-care places being rolled out early across the aged-care system are mostly lower level support.
Hunt rejects health groups fund plea
Peak health groups say they are struggling to provide adequate policy advice ahead of the federal election.
Aircon ‘not needed’ in homes
The chief executive of the aged-care peak body faced questioning at the royal commission over ‘vague’ quality standards.
PM’s $3m boost for mental health help
Scott Morrison has announced $3m in additional mental health support for areas of Queensland affected by flooding.
Hospital crush ‘puts patients’ lives at risk’
Paramedics have warned of a ‘looming disaster’ after ambulances were unable to deliver patients to the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Pharma kickbacks under the radar
More than a third of the money spent by pharmaceutical companies promoting drugs to doctors may have gone unreported.
Cuts create aged-care ‘losers’
The Coalition’s $2bn savings drive is taking a savage toll on those in the aged care sector, despite denials from the Prime Minister.
Medicare’s $110m rebate ‘windfall’
Medicare rebates totalling $110m sit unclaimed due to 700,000 Australians not registering their bank account details.
Plan to send doctors to refugee facilities
Additional taxpayer-funded medical services may be provided to asylum-seekers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
Doctors demand political fix
A proposed change to the oversight of medical treatment for asylum-seekers has yet to gain the support of doctors.
Hunt ups his MRI machine pledge by 20
A further 20 Medicare-funded MRI machines have been promised by the Morrison government.
E-health record ‘in need of overhaul’
The federal government’s $2 billion My Health Record platform is in need of a fundamental overhaul, experts say.
ALP vow to children’s hospital
NSW Labor has vowed to restore paediatric cardiac services at the Sydney Children’s Hospital.
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