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Gaming – the future of health: August 2, 2015
Who are Australia’s biggest gamers? Perhaps 18-25 year old men, or teenage boys? According to Nick Bowditch, Founder of The Mentoring Club, and the only Australian to have worked for both Twitter and Facebook, our nation’s biggest gamers are mothers! Although somewhat surprising, an IGEA Digital Australia report released in 2014 revealed 81 per cent…
Read MoreA mother’s renewed appeal to the government to save her young daughter’s life – July 31, 2015
On December 1, 2014, the small aHUS Australian community celebrated with the PBS listing of Soliris (eculizumab) through Section 100: Highly Specialised Drugs Program for those who meet certain criteria, and the earmarking of $63 million in treatment funding over the next four years. Since then, our celebrations have begun to sour, as aHUS patients currently accessing…
Read MoreHIV patient reportedly in remission more than a decade post- treatment – July 31, 2015
In what has been dubbed the “world’s first report of long-term remission from HIV in a child,” an 18-year old French woman is now in remission from HIV, despite ceasing anti-viral medicines 12 years ago, when six years of age. Born with HIV transmitted by her mother in 1996, she was placed on four anti-viral…
Read MoreVIVA! is celebrating its 13th birthday today – July 20, 2015
DigiPharma 2015 – The Digital Journey for Pharma – Tues, July 14, 2015
VIVA! Communications and Princeton Digital will co-host Australia’s fourth annual Digital Pharma seminar series, in Sydney and Melbourne, this week and next. This year’s seminar series, entitled ‘The Digital Journey for Pharma’, will feature an array of expert spokespeople, including medical specialists, digital marketing gurus, pharmacy developers, pharmaceutical company representatives and marketers, who will collectively…
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