Posts by VIVA! Communications
Team VIVA! dons white to unite for World Osteoporosis Day
VIVA! Communications practitioners are donning white today – World Osteoporosis Day (October 20, 2016) – to rally for the global prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis. Given an estimated 200 million people worldwide and 1.2 million Australians are living with osteoporosis, and the disease is continuing to place a substantial burden on patients, carers and…
Read MoreReport finds more Australians are giving up alcohol
Releasing the data from its 10-year ‘Trends in alcohol availability, use and treatment’ report this month (October 2016), the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has found that an increase in cost, as well as a decrease in club trading hours, has led to a decrease in alcohol consumption across the board for all…
Read More#GHPRCONNECTS: SPECTRUM’S HEADING DOWN UNDER!
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things,” said American writer Henry Miller. And starting this week, I’ll be privy to an entirely new way of seeing things from the opposite side of the world in Sydney, Australia as a part of the 2016 GLOBALHealthPR®Professional Exchange Program with our partner,VIVA!…
Read MoreVirtual reality: helping people with mental health issues
The potential for virtual reality (VR) to help deliver care for people living with mental health illness has been long know however the price of this technology was previously expensive and challenging to develop. So how is VR being used? Dr Greg Wadley, a technologist from the University of Melbourne, says the main focus of using…
Read MoreAustralian Prostate Cancer Research Clinches Global Astellas Oncology Innovation Grant
Chief Executive Officer of Australian Prostate Cancer Research (APCR), Mark Harrison, has attracted global recognition for his role in developing APCR’s interactive online prostate treatment support service, PROSTMATE™. Mr Harrison clinched one of two first prizes during a red-carpet announcement at the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Annual Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark this past…
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