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REDFEB to launch next month, raising awareness for Australia’s leading cause of death

This February will see the launch of REDFEB across Australia raising awareness about heart health. Heart disease affects two in three Australians, and from 2019 to 2020, cost the Australian healthcare system 12.7 billion dollars. Heart Research Australia says we can take care of our hearts without breaking the bank, establishing a free resource with …

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Gender Inequality Persists In Emergency Care

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Women are 70 per cent less likely than men to receive life-saving emergency defibrillation in a public setting, according to a new study exposing gender inequality in emergency care. The research suggests that exposing a woman’s torso and breasts in public could actually dissuade a bystander from performing CPR and emergency care. Image: Image: …

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The cost of diabetes on healthcare in Australia

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Diabetes continues to be a significant epidemic in the 21st century, resulting in numerous complications that affect vital organs such as the heart, blood vessels, kidneys, and eyes. In the past decade, significant progress has been made in diabetes management, leading to a reduction in these complications. Due to the increasing prevalence of diabetes, there …

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Major Medicare Overhaul

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Medicare is set to change under new funding in the Labor government’s May budget. To relieve the public hospital system General Practitioners will be better equipped to handle a wider variety of cases including light trauma treatment, mental health and physiotherapy. To achieve this goal the Medicare system has to take inspiration from general health …

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Covid exposes flaws in Australia supply chain

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This is the first year that Australia has not been under lockdown, although in terms of mortality projection data, the coronavirus is not going to be as bad as what has happened before. But covid has severely exposed the flaws in Australia’s current health system, even worse than it was before the pandemic virus. John …

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