Rolled out by researchers in Vietnam,there are now calls for it to be trialled in Australia.
The government agency responsible for stepping in when there are medicine shortages in Victoria will announce redundancies on Thursday.
Dr John Wiseman graduated from medicine in 1952,near the height of Australia’s polio epidemic. He reflects on how the world,and his work,has changed over seven decades.
Deaths caused by alcohol have reached their highest rate in a decade,according to a new report that calls on the federal government to do more to protect Australians from the harms of excessive drinking.
LGBTQ advocates have slammed a report by British paediatrician Hilary Cass,who concluded there was inadequate evidence to support the use of puberty blockers.
The failures of Victoria’s emergency call-taking service during the pandemic have been exposed as it emerged other states acted to prepare.
A coroner has been told that Victoria’s triple-zero service missed key opportunities to prepare for a pandemic demand surge,including rejecting an offer to borrow call-takers.
The inquest into the death of Nick Panagiotopoulos,47,who died after a long wait for an ambulance call-taker,is examining whether enough was done to act on warnings before the tragedy.
The flu,malaria and even gonorrhoea will be studied to help the first lab of its type in the southern hemisphere stay one step ahead of the prime candidate for the next pandemic.
The former Victorian premier’s private office was extensively involved in responding to health-related media inquiries,prompting warnings about the centralisation of power.
Three practitioners involved in the care of a Melbourne woman,who died shortly after a routine procedure,had conditions imposed on their medical registrations in the years and months before her death.