Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Every year, more than 950 Australian children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer, with one third of those affected aged 0-4 years. Tragically, three of these children lose their lives to cancer every week. September is International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, which works to raise awareness of the need for improved diagnosis and treatment for…

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R U OK? Day

Today (Thursday, September 10) marks the annual nationwide R U OK? Day and raising awareness of the importance of mental health is something very close to our hearts here at VIVA!. As well as working with countless clients in this space over the years, recently we made sure we were one of the first signatories…

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Women’s Health Week 2020

Australians have now been coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and all the lockdowns, measures and uncertainties that have come with it for almost half a year. During this time many women have neglected to take care of their own health, particularly skipping regular health checks. This week (September 7 –13) marks Women’s Health Week, an…

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Need for increased awareness of eating disorder prevalence in high-performance sport

The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) has this week (Monday, September 7) announced a partnership with the National Eating Disorders Collaboration (NEDC) to call for increased awareness of the prevalence of eating disorders in high-performance sport. The two peak bodies have issued a joint position statement and supporting resources comprising a toolkit for sporting organisations…

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Virtual HCP advisory board spearheading industry digital transformation

Today, VIVA! Communications partnered with the team at Rumi to launch their innovative digital advisory board platform, designed to facilitate insight-generating, ‘any time’ HCP advisory boards in a time-efficient, cost-effective, multilingual, secure and Code compliant way. The online platform, which is the brainchild of Australian pharmaceutical Digerati, is promising to transform the pharmaceutical industry’s healthcare…

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