Fourteen groups around the country are to
share $10.7 million to pay for anti-smoking campaigns in Indigenous communities
in the latest round of funding under the Federal Government's Indigenous
Tobacco Control Initiative.
The AMA used the Close the Gap Day in March to remind the Government to get active in developing a comprehensive national plan to achieve Indigenous health equality within a generation.
The number of medical practitioners, specialists and optometrists investigated by the Professional Services Review for 'inappropriate practice' totalled 136 in 2008-09.
While many of the audience watching March's great televised health debate between Prime Minister Rudd and Opposition Leader Abbott were focused on worms, the AMA President was more interested in words - and he wasn't disappointed.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has obtained interlocutory injunctions in the Federal Court against a Sunshine Coast business purporting to offer a cancer treatment program.
The Australian Competition and Consumer
Commission (ACCC), in its latest review of anti-competitive practices by health
insurers and providers, reports that two key concerns remain even after its 10
previous reviews.
Private health insurance premiums will rise
(on 1 April) by an average 5.78% in the latest round of premium movements
accepted by the Federal Government.
The Government's proposed changes to the
private health insurance rebate have been killed off again in the Senate, after
much huffing and puffing for weeks - the second time that the enabling
legislation has been defeated there.
The Federal Government is to spend more
than $4 million over the next four years subsidising Myozyme (alglucosidase
alpha) to treat Infantile-onset Pompe disease.
The latest edition in the Australian Longitudinal Study of
Women's Health has been released, focusing on reproductive health.
