Posts by Team VIVA!
Get h-APP-ening
How smartphone apps can improve your health and wellness There is no doubt smartphones have changed the flow of communication. But the question is, how are hand held devices allowing us to be proactive and educated about our own health? Not only are consumers being spoilt for choice by the surplus of apps available, the…
Read MoreThe rise of the e-patient
Pros and cons of Dr Google and the e-patient Will Dr Google make the good old-fashioned face-to-face visit to the GP a thing of the past in the future? The question naturally arises after new research by the Medibank 24/7 Health Advice Line highlighted an alarming pattern of people seeking health advice from the nearest…
Read MoreHealth debate a non-event as parties dodge detail
This week’s Health Debate at the National Press Club in Canberra proved a fizzer as Health Minister, Tanya Plibersek and Shadow Minister, Peter Dutton faced off in front of an audience of more than 100 media and PRs, patients, advocacy, consumer group representatives and health organisation representatives. Confirming what one of our recent VIVA! blogs alluded…
Read MoreAwareness Week puts hearing on the health agenda
VIVA! Communications has been teaming with Sydney hearing clinic, Comfort Hearing Aids, to encourage the community to undertake complementary hearing tests this week as part of Hearing Awareness Week (August 26-31, 2013). Hearing Awareness Week aims to highlight the risks associated with long-term exposure to excessive noise, often in the workplace, and to address the…
Read MoreNewcastle the starting point for stronger epilepsy support
Newcastle is among the nation’s first communities to benefit from DisabilityCare Australia, the national disability insurance scheme, kicking off with an epilepsy forum today. Novocastrians living with disabilities and epilepsy, their families and disability organisations will have the opportunity to participate in the ‘Epilepsy Know Me, Support Me’ program to be canvassed at Noah’s on…
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