I’ve been in Sydney, Australia for just about two weeks now as a part of the GLOBALHealthPR® Professional Exchange Program. While I’ve done “heaps” of touristy things like check out sweeping views of the city from the Sydney Tower Eye, watch surfers catch some waves at Manly Beach and hang out with koalas at the…

Federal Health Minister, The Hon. Sussan Ley MP has announced that the government’s $50 million Pharmacy Trial program will commence in November 2016. The in-pharmacy Diabetes Screening Services trial will randomly-select 360 metro, regional, and rural pharmacies across Australia as participants. The program requests patients to use a validated AUSDRICK questionnaire to test their risk…

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…

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…