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| UpdatedA GP says she's worth more than the $37 the "frozen" Medicare rebate provides because her patient care saves the health system a fortune.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, australia
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| UpdatedDesperate to have a family, Angie and Jason found a surrogate online. But the couple's relationship with Karen soon became more complicated than they had anticipated.
Topics: surrogacy, pregnancy-and-childbirth, reproduction-and-contraception, health, australia
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Regional hospitals across South Australia are at risk of losing their mains power during future load shedding blackouts.
Topics: health, health-administration, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, mount-gambier-5290, sa, penola-5277, millicent-5280, murray-bridge-5253
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| UpdatedPatients are getting stuck in emergency rooms and elective surgery wait times are the longest they have been in 15 years, an Australian Medical Association report shows, labelling the system virtually stagnant and "woeful".
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health-policy, health-administration, australia
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Australian doctors say viewing X-rays on a smartphone can be just as useful in diagnosing common lung problems in babies as looking at the standard X-ray film, opening up opportunities for rural patients who need quick diagnosis.
Topics: medical-research, health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, babies, family-and-children, infant-health, diseases-and-disorders, child-health-and-behaviour, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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New research shows young people with no known history of heart disease are at risk of a fatal cardiac arrest after just one energy drink, February 16, 2017.
Topics: heart-disease, health, diet-and-nutrition, research, australia
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| UpdatedAn 11-year-old girl who died of sepsis after rolling her ankle was sent home from hospital with painkillers and antibiotics after a phone consultation with an on-call doctor, an inquest into her death is told.
Topics: health, child-health-and-behaviour, diseases-and-disorders, nt
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| UpdatedEnergy drinks are linked to a higher risk of sudden cardiac death and increased blood pressure among young people who may be unaware they have a heart condition, a new study finds.
Topics: food-and-beverage, diseases-and-disorders, health, diet-and-nutrition, sydney-2000, australia
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A traditional Mediterranean diet has been shown to have significant health benefits. But can you follow it if you live nowhere near a Greek island?
Topics: health, diet-and-nutrition, vitamins, bowel-and-rectal-cancer, heart-disease, la-trobe-university-3086, australia
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Topics: food-poisoning, food-safety, diseases-and-disorders, health, food-and-beverage, gungahlin-2912, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Topics: food-poisoning, food-safety, health, diseases-and-disorders, jamison-centre-2614, macquarie-2614, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedTwo popular cafes in Canberra are forced to close after an unknown number of people are hospitalised with food poisoning.
Topics: food-poisoning, food-safety, health, diseases-and-disorders, food-and-beverage, jamison-centre-2614, macquarie-2614, belconnen-2617, gungahlin-2912, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedA man uses his robotic exoskeleton to walk onto the soccer pitch. A woman sees the world using her bionic eye. Sound like science fiction? No, these are all real stories.
Topics: biotechnology, science-and-technology, neuroscience, robots-and-artificial-intelligence, disabilities, health, australia, germany, sweden
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| UpdatedAbout 140 passengers on the Sun Princess cruise ship come down with gastro, a fortnight after staff tried to rid the vessel of a norovirus upon returning from another trip.
Topics: health, diseases-and-disorders, infectious-diseases-other, hamilton-4007, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedImages of young people buying fruit and vegetables, taking Zumba classes, and surfing lessons, were among the winners in a photography competition aimed at capturing the effort that Pacific Islanders are making to tackle the scourge of non-communicable diseases.
Topics: photography, health, pacific
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| UpdatedFor many disability and education advocates it's confirmation of their long-held belief, but new figures appear to suggest students with a disability face an enormous funding gap in Australian schools.
Topics: education, access-to-education, disabilities, health, australia
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| UpdatedOnce it's fully operational, the NDIS will be one of the biggest Government-funded program after Medicare. But where will those funds come from?
Topics: disabilities, health, health-administration, health-insurance, health-policy, australia
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Researchers discover the three-dimensional structure of a protein responsible for multi-drug resistant bacteria, in a major step forward in the battle against antibiotic resistance.
Topics: health, infectious-diseases-other, diseases-and-disorders, wa, australia
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| UpdatedAdelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital failed to report the deaths of eight infants over a nine-year period, and the delays in reporting have serious ramifications for investigations, coroner Mark Johns says.
Topics: health, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedA 65 per cent hike in the price of ice-cream might not sound like a great idea, but what if it meant you could live longer? Melbourne researchers say a sugar tax, combined with subsidies for healthy foods, could increase Australians' life expectancy.
Topics: obesity, diet-and-nutrition, food-and-cooking, food-and-beverage, health, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedDementia is set to cost Australia an estimated $18 billion a year by 2025, as Alzheimer's Australia calls for a national strategy to combat the disease.
Topics: alzheimers-and-dementia, diseases-and-disorders, health, federal-government, australia, canberra-2600, act
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Victoria's residential care system is failing the young people it is set up to care for, a former workers says.
Topics: carers, youth, community-and-society, health, child-abuse, child-health-and-behaviour, vic, geelong-3220
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Emergency defibrillators that come with recorded verbal instructions are installed in the CBD as part of a $25,000 trial hoped to save the lives of cardiac arrest victims, with people urged to use them even if they are untrained.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, heart-disease, health, adelaide-5000
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Tougher laws, more drug-driving tests and greater search powers for police are all options on the table as South Australia sets up a taskforce to urgently tackle growing use of the drug ice.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, drug-offences, drug-use, health, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, sa
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| UpdatedFive-time Paralympian and disability advocate Kurt Fearnley criticises the Federal Government's decision to cut funding to other social services to fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Topics: disabilities, health, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia