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Awareness 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…
Read MoreGetting thrown into the deep end, hoping to swim!
Getting thrown into the deep end, hoping to swim! My first two weeks at VIVA! have shown me some of the specialist skills required to operate in health + wellness public relations. I was thrown into the deep end as my previous communications internships were in consumer-driven environments. By the end of my first day…
Read MoreWill health get a guernsey in the 2013 election?
Health will likely be buried amid the hot button 2013 federal election topics of asylum seekers, carbon tax and the economy, but that has not stopped our peak health and medical bodies stating their arguments for how health should be managed under any incoming government. Issues ranging from PBS drug listings to chronic disease care,…
Read MoreTelling your health story with Instagram
When I first heard the rumblings that yet another mobile social media platform had launched into the market, I was somewhat sceptical. But I have learnt a lot more about Instagram since. I now know that it boasts around 100 million users and after some research, have found that the free, instant photo-sharing app (now…
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