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The Victorian Government has launched an independent investigation into workplace culture at the Sale hospital in the state's east.
Topics: health-administration, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, sale-3850
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A controversial reorganisation of SA Pathology services, which had cast doubt over 196 current jobs, is suspended by the South Australian Government until after the state election next March.
Topics: health-policy, health, unions, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, sa
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A policy of charging money to treat snakebite at Port Moresby's main hospital could mean people dying who could have been saved.
Topics: health, health-policy, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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RMIT senior engineering lecturer Abbas Mohajerani is among researchers calling for cigarette butts to be used in the surfaces of roads, to stop their toxic chemicals reaching rivers and oceans.
Topics: smoking, nicotine, health-policy, recycling-and-waste-management, australia
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The death of Arnhem Land musician Dr G Yunupingu at 46 years of age should highlight the crippling impacts kidney failure is having on Indigenous Australians, health experts and advocates say.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, health-policy, liver-and-kidneys, nhulunbuy-0880
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In the United States, opioid addiction is a "national emergency" killing almost 150 people per day. It's a form of carnage US President Donald Trump vows to stop, but those on the frontline say repealing Obamacare will hurt the recovery services that rely on funding.
Topics: community-and-society, drugs-and-substance-abuse, donald-trump, government-and-politics, health-policy, addictive, heroin, united-states
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Royal Adelaide Hospital's stroke specialists were working an "intolerable" roster, and after the deaths of two patients — while the doctors were on leave — another specialist has been appointed, an inquest hears.
Topics: health, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, health-policy, healthcare-facilities, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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Rural and remote Australians remain deeply concerned about poor access to healthcare, according to a Royal Flying Doctor Service survey.
Topics: regional, health, health-policy, doctors-and-medical-professionals, parliament-house-2600, katherine-0850, alice-springs-0870, mildura-3500, broken-hill-2880, mount-isa-4825, kalgoorlie-6430, port-lincoln-5606, port-augusta-5700
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Topics: rural, drug-education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-use, family-and-children, welfare, healthcare-facilities, health-policy, regional, community-and-society, whyalla-5600
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Topics: rural, drug-education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-use, family-and-children, welfare, healthcare-facilities, health-policy, regional, community-and-society, whyalla-5600
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Karen Harrison's daughter struggled with an ice addiction
Topics: rural, drug-education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-use, family-and-children, welfare, healthcare-facilities, health-policy, regional, community-and-society, whyalla-5600
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Karen Harrison's daughter required surgery after being beaten up by another ice addict.
Topics: rural, drug-education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-use, family-and-children, welfare, healthcare-facilities, health-policy, regional, community-and-society, whyalla-5600
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Karen Harrison kept her daughter's ice addiction a secret.
Topics: rural, drug-education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-use, family-and-children, welfare, healthcare-facilities, health-policy, regional, community-and-society, whyalla-5600
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How one rural woman found the courage to share her secret and help other families struggling with ice addiction.
Topics: rural, drug-education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-use, family-and-children, welfare, healthcare-facilities, health-policy, regional, community-and-society, whyalla-5600, port-pirie-5540, port-lincoln-5606, bendigo-3550
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The Federal Government makes it easier for Australians to register to be an organ donor in an effort to double donation rates.
Topics: government-and-politics, health, healthcare-facilities, health-policy, australia
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Transforming Health architect Professor Dorothy Keefe criticises the SA Government over its backdown on part of the controversial health system overhaul.
Topics: health-policy, health, health-administration, states-and-territories, doctors-and-medical-professionals, sa, adelaide-5000
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US President Donald Trump says Republican and Democrat senators who rejected a last-ditch measure to repeal parts of Obamacare have "let the American people down".
Topics: health, health-policy, world-politics, united-states
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Karen Harrison worked in a shop surrounded by party decorations when her daughter was addicted to ice
Topics: rural, drug-education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-use, family-and-children, welfare, healthcare-facilities, health-policy, regional, community-and-society, whyalla-5600
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A new study strengthens claims that e-cigarettes and vapour devices are useful tools to help smokers quit.
Topics: smoking, health, health-policy, australia
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A Republican plan to repeal and replace former US president Barack Obama's signature healthcare fails in the Senate, in the first of many expected votes this week.
Topics: world-politics, health-policy, united-states
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Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in Perth is hit with a contamination scare after dust-coated surgical instrument trays are found in the theatre preparation area, with families of 370 patients alerted about the issue.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-policy, children, perth-6000, wa
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South Australian ambulance workers back away from taking industrial action after a deal is struck for a working group to review rostering and staff levels.
Topics: health-policy, unions, states-and-territories, health, government-and-politics, sa, adelaide-5000
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Donald Trump is now predicting that, if left in place, the entire Obamacare model will fall apart. But can that happen and, if so, how?
Topics: health, health-policy, health-insurance, obama-barack, donald-trump, united-states
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Ambulances queue 10 deep for hours outside some overstretched emergency wards across south-western Sydney due to a surge in patients in the past 48 hours.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-policy, health, liverpool-2170
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American researchers find Australia's healthcare system is the second best in the developed world with the United States' costly model named the worst.
Topics: health-policy, health, healthcare-facilities, australia, new-zealand, norway, united-states, united-kingdom
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