Thursday Health Scope - Mental Health, Aged Care, Alcohol, First Aid, Health Reforms, Super Clinic, Later term abortion
Mental Health
- National R U OK? Day aimed at preventing suicide by encouraging Australians to ask friends , family and co-workers "are you okay?". Contact: www.ruoktoday.com.au
Aged Care
Ginninderra Gardens Nursing Home in Page, ACT was placed in lockdown for several days after 10 residents succumbed to gastroenteritis virus.
Alcohol
UK study suggests that pregnant mothers who drank one to two units of alcohol per week faced no detrimental effects in having healthy babies. However chief investigator at University of NSW's National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Lucy Burns, says that given the increasing findings which show that alcohol impaired development in foetus' brains, abstinence is still the best approach for pregnant mothers
First Aid'
Guidelines on how best to keep heart attacks victims alive are being reviewed as research shows bystanders are more likely to save save lives by using chest compression alone, rather than full CPR. The research was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Health Reforms
Bundaberg GP, Patrick Byrnes yesterday accused Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon of giving in to bureaucratic games and allowing a con reform which was established by past opposition health minister Tony Abbott, that dis-allowed specially trained practice nurses to carry out procedures such as immunisations, wound dressings and Pap smears, to continue.
Cot Death
NSW Health produced a report which showed that one in eight newborns who die from cot-death have been placed in unsafe positions by midwives
Late-term abortion
An Anglican minister has questioned late term abortion practise at Melbourne's Royal Women's Hospital, claiming that babies who survived late term abortions may have been left to die on shelves. Health Department spokesman Bram Alexander said it was up to the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity to monitor trends and data. The council is due to release its 2008 report by the end of this year.
Super Clinic
PALMERSTON residents will by-pass the GP Super Clinic and go straight to the hospital emergency department because the new service does not offer bulk billing.
- National R U OK? Day aimed at preventing suicide by encouraging Australians to ask friends , family and co-workers "are you okay?". Contact: www.ruoktoday.com.au
Aged Care
Ginninderra Gardens Nursing Home in Page, ACT was placed in lockdown for several days after 10 residents succumbed to gastroenteritis virus.
Alcohol
UK study suggests that pregnant mothers who drank one to two units of alcohol per week faced no detrimental effects in having healthy babies. However chief investigator at University of NSW's National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Lucy Burns, says that given the increasing findings which show that alcohol impaired development in foetus' brains, abstinence is still the best approach for pregnant mothers
First Aid'
Guidelines on how best to keep heart attacks victims alive are being reviewed as research shows bystanders are more likely to save save lives by using chest compression alone, rather than full CPR. The research was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Health Reforms
Bundaberg GP, Patrick Byrnes yesterday accused Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon of giving in to bureaucratic games and allowing a con reform which was established by past opposition health minister Tony Abbott, that dis-allowed specially trained practice nurses to carry out procedures such as immunisations, wound dressings and Pap smears, to continue.
Cot Death
NSW Health produced a report which showed that one in eight newborns who die from cot-death have been placed in unsafe positions by midwives
Late-term abortion
An Anglican minister has questioned late term abortion practise at Melbourne's Royal Women's Hospital, claiming that babies who survived late term abortions may have been left to die on shelves. Health Department spokesman Bram Alexander said it was up to the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity to monitor trends and data. The council is due to release its 2008 report by the end of this year.
Super Clinic
PALMERSTON residents will by-pass the GP Super Clinic and go straight to the hospital emergency department because the new service does not offer bulk billing.
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