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Funding promised to save more lives of people living with rare cancers
Future generations who may be diagnosed with rare cancers have been offered hope this week with the promise of a $26m investment package into new research. The money will be spent on 19 clinical trials, with the aim to reverse tragically low survival rates through the creation of new and more effective treatments. The research…
Read More‘Baby brain’ is a real phenomenon
We have all heard the old wives’ tale of women experiencing ‘baby brain’ during pregnancy. Symptoms are thought to include forgetting things, losing your train of thought or having trouble with planning. Recent research from Deakin University, published in the Medical Journal of Australia has looked at the scope of data across 20 studies, involving…
Read MorePharmacists to support Australians living with chronic pain
Pharmacies Australia-wide will be charged with helping patients who take chronic pain medication consistently for three months or more, under the Pain MedsCheck trial that will run up until June 2020 as part of the remaining Sixth Community Pharmacy Agreement. The new $20 million program to be funded under the Sixth Community Pharmacy Agreement will…
Read MoreNSW Government to fund free flu vaccinations for children
With last year’s flu season the most severe since 2009 (with over 12,000 confirmed cases in children under 5), the NSW Government announced this week (January 23, 2018), that from April 2018 it will fund free flu vaccinations for all NSW children aged between 6 months and five years of age who are not currently…
Read More“Little miracle man”- Parents issue urgent public funding appeal to secure treatment for their little boy without eyes
Mother Nature dealt little Archie Innes and his loving family a cruel blow when he was born with an extremely rare condition, and an even rarer genetic mutation that rendered him without eyes at birth. Dubbed a little “miracle man” by his loving parents, pre-school teacher, Fiona, husband Stevie, and three-year old sister, Alba, Sydney,…
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