Shining the spotlight on World Mental Health Day today
It’s World Mental Health Day today (October 10, 2018). The World Federation for Mental Health initiative aims to shine the spotlight on mental health education, awareness and advocacy, worldwide. Mental Health Australia is coordinating the local arm of the global initiative today (during Mental Health Week) via their ‘Do You See What I See’ campaign…
MTAA calling on government to delay implementation of PHI product categorisation reforms
The Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA) has raised concerns today (October 8, 2018) regarding the Morrison Government’s gold, silver, bronze and basic private health insurance (PHI) policy reforms slated for launch on April 1, 2019, pre- an anticipated May 2019 federal election. Their concerns coincide with a report in The Australian today, citing the commencement…
Australian-first hospital mental health mentoring program offering teens hope
An Australian-first Youth Virtual Mentoring program designed to help minimise the stigma of teens hospitalised with mental health issues, will be trialled among 12-to-17 year old patients at Sydney’s Hornsby Hospital to aid their healing. Developed by mental health organisation, Project Batyr, and funded by the NSW Government to the tune of $50,000, the pilot…
Chickenpox vaccine significantly curbing childhood infection
Introduced to Australia in 2005, the chickenpox (varicella) vaccine has substantially reduced the incidence of this common childhood infection, according to a new report. Communicable Diseases Intelligence examined the impact of the chickenpox vaccine administered to children at 18 months of age. Pre- vaccine availability, Australia had an estimated 240,000 chickenpox cases each year, including…
Peter Mac streamlines cancer treatment planning with deployment of Varian solution
Varian is today (Wednesday, October 3, 2018) announcing the installation of a cloud-hosted deployment of the Varian Eclipse™ treatment planning system and Velocity™ oncology imaging informatics system across five Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac) sites in Victoria, Australia. Peter Mac is one of the world’s leading cancer research, education and treatment centres. It operates…
Worldwide recognition for GLOBALHealthPR partners
The past few weeks have seen our GLOBALHealthPR partners receiving worldwide recognition for their fantastic work in Health + Wellness PR. Last week, our agency, VIVA! Communications, was thrilled to clinch Australia’s ‘Best Public Health Initiative’ at the pharmaceutical industry’s annual PRIME Awards for our Enhancing Community Immunity Through Pharmacist-led Flu Vaccination campaign in partnership with…
Pharmacy Guild of Australia & VIVA! Communications clinch Australia’s Best Public Health Initiative 2018 at PRIME Awards
Last night (September 20) Team VIVA! celebrated a huge win. Together with the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, we clinched Australia’s‘Best Public Health Initiative 2018’award for our ‘Enhancing ‘community immunity’ through pharmacist-led flu vaccinationcampaign at the pharmaceutical industry’s annual PRIME Awards. Held at The Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney, the event attracted more than 800 of the…
ACCC announces clearance of the merger of Arrow Pharmaceuticals & Apotex Australia & NZ merger
Melbourne, September 20, 2018 – The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced this morning that it ‘has decided not to oppose the merger of generic pharmaceutical companies, Arrow and Apotex’ after finding the transaction would not substantially lessen competition in any market. In May 2018, Strides Pharma Science Ltd and Apotex Inc. announced their…
GLOBALHealthPR appoints VIVA! Communications ‘Asia-Pacific hub’ & welcomes Spurwing Communications as exclusive Singaporean partner
GLOBALHealthPR, the world’s largest partnership of independent health and science communications agencies, today appointed longstanding Australian partner, VIVA! Communications, ‘regional hub’ for Asia-Pacific. The strategic partnership also welcomed Singapore-based Spurwing Communications to its network today, further strengthening GLOBALHealthPR’s capabilities in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Having earned an enviable reputation for servicing the local, regional and…
The osteoporosis care gap
The release of the Australia and New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry (ANZHFR) 2018 annual reporthas revealed a significant need for improvement in the management and prevention of osteoporotic fractures in our elderly population. There is a call for hospitals to prioritise osteoporosis treatment plans when discharging patients following a hip fracture. This follows data revealing…