Posts by VIVA! Communications
Does your postcode put you at risk of developing cancer?
Recent data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) reveals your postcode can put you at risk of developing a certain type of cancer. Some of the cancer hot spots in NSW include Nepean Blue Mountains, Murrumbidgee, and Central and Eastern Sydney. Recorded rates of melanoma for NSW North Coast residents were approximately…
Read MoreAustralian Red Cross Blood Service issues urgent donation plea to curb national shortage
With national blood reserves having plummeted to only two moredays worth of supply, the Australian Red Cross Blood Service has issued an urgent plea for 8,000 Australians to donate O-type blood over the next two weeks. Speaking to the ABC on May 23, 2017, Australian Red Cross Blood Service spokeswoman, Jessica Willet explained “type O…
Read MoreFederal Health Minister allocates substantial funding to boost clinical trials in Australia
On Friday, May 19, 2017, Federal Health Minister, The Hon. Greg Hunt MP announced an additional $33 million in funding for clinical trials in Australia. Mr Hunt delivered the announcement at the Australian Clinical Trial Alliance’s National Trial of the Year Awards, hosted at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, just prior to the International Clinical…
Read MoreWill the battle for full immunisation coverage be won & lost on Twitter?
Barely a day goes by without an Australian media outlet publishing a story about vaccination. Just last week, we discussed on the VIVA! blog how Brisbane’s well-heeled inner city suburbs have recorded some of the lowest vaccination rates in Australia. With the Federal Government proposing in March that State and Territory governments should ban unvaccinated…
Read MoreAustralians unwilling to protect against fatal lung infection
Three-in-four Australian adults do not consider ‘life-threatening consequences’ as sufficient motivation to vaccinate against pneumococcal pneumonia. This is according to Lung Foundation Australia research released today (May 16, 2017) to mark Know Pneumonia Day. According to respiratory physician and Lung Foundation Australia Respiratory Infectious Disease Committee Chair, Associate Professor Lucy Morgan, Sydney, Australians are not being…
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