The Wednesday News Blog
A new non-profit health co-op has been set up in Canberra by British GPs, offering patients bulk billing and low cost care for $50 a year membership, reports The Canberra Times.
The coalition will oppose changes to the private health insurance rebate, potentially setting up a double-dissolution trigger, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
Up to 30 per cent of patients in Canberra hospitals could be treated more cheaply at home according to a discussion paper from Liberal MLA Jeremy Hanson, The Canberra Times reports.
An Australian urological surgeon suspended from a London hospital after expressing concern about cost-cutting has won substantial damages from the hospital, reports The Independent.
The Health Insurance Association (HIA) says all Australians will suffer if the Government succeeds in means-testing the private health insurance rebate, the ABC says.
Fish oil could be a safe and effective form of treatment for young people with schizophrenia, reports the ABC.
Former Bega doctor Graeme Reeves, who is facing charges of sexually assaulting and mutilating his female patients, is no longer confined to Sydney after his bail conditions were relaxed, writes the Herald Sun.
An obstetrician has told a Victorian tribunal that he did not perform a potentially life-saving hysterectomy on a woman who was bleeding after childbirth because her anaesthetist refused to participate, according to The Age.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is linked to serotonin abnormalities in the brainstem, says a researcher from the Florey Neuroscience Institutes in Melbourne, according to PR Wire.
A Gold Coast doctor was seriously wounded and his wife killed when stabbed by their daughter, prosecutors alleged in a trial in the Queensland Supreme Court, The Australian reports.
A campaign to secure a life-saving cancer scanning machine for south-west Victoria has gained momentum with doctors across the region signing a parliamentary petition, reports The Standard.
The WA health department has moved to reassure Perth residents that the dredging of Fremantle harbour does not pose a risk to human health, reports the ABC.
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3 February 2010
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