There’s no age limit for anorexia nervosa, look out for the warning signs
Anorexia nervosa is a life-threatening eating disorder and a mental illness that causes people who live with the illness to stop eating regularly or persistently and leads to them being underweight. Recently, new figures in NSW have revealed children as young as seven are being diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. This has also caused intensive day…
The passing of a much-valued professional communicator
Working in the field of PR and communications allows you to bond closely with like-minded colleagues and other professionals. Although we don’t always get to meet face-to-face, we tend to build strong relationships by liaising with, reading and appreciating various communication campaigns that often deliver wonderful, quirky and far-reaching results. To lose a member of…
VIVA! Communications clinches four highly coveted awards at PRIA National GTA’s 2016
Monday, November 14, 2016 marked the 40th annual Public Relations Institute of Australia’s (PRIA) National Golden Target Awards (GTAs) – an evening honouring the crème-de-la-crème of the nation’s PR industry. PR gurus Australia-wide flocked to the Sheraton Four Seasons, Sydney to learn the fate of their hard-earned PR and communication campaign submissions this week. VIVA!…
VIVA! is supporting World Diabetes Day 2016
Team VIVA! is recognising World Diabetes Day (WDD) today, an international event designed to raise awareness about diabetes. VIVA! employees took time today to consider the impact of diabetes on people living with the disease, both worldwide and in Australia. The team also wore blue, the traditional colour of WDD, to mark the day and…
National Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy set to safeguard our future
In the lead up to the WHO Global Antibiotic Awareness Week (Nov 14-20, 2016), the Deputy Prime Minister and the Federal Health Minister have issued a joint media release this week announcing their implementation of the National Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Strategy for 2015-2019. The plan aims to combat the immediate global threat of antimicrobial resistance.…
Federal Government scraps plans for Australian School Vaccination Registry – November 7, 2016
In the 2015/16 Federal Budget, the Federal Government allocated $26 million to boost vaccination rates in Australia, including a new Australian Schools Vaccination Register designed to record all adolescent vaccinations provided through school programs for 2017. On Friday, November 4, 2016, the Department of Health announced via a media release that it was scrapping its…
APOTEX RUNNER-UP AT 2016 ASMI DIAMOND AWARDS
Australia’s number one generic medicines company, Apotex clinched runner-up in the “Excellence in Pharmacy Sales – under $100 Million award” at the Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) 2016 Diamond Awards held last night at Le Montage, Sydney. The ASMI sales awards recognise ASMI member companies based on highest overall satisfaction metrics, including ‘quality use of…
Public invited to comment on the Fifth National Australian Mental Health Plan
Every year one-in-five Australians will experience some form of mental illness, and in our lifetimes, one-in-two of us will live with mental illness. With the burden of mental illness continuing to rise, the Federal Government is currently drafting a plan to address some of the issues reportedly contributing to the soaring rates of mental illness…
Team VIVA! dons white to unite for World Osteoporosis Day
VIVA! Communications practitioners are donning white today – World Osteoporosis Day (October 20, 2016) – to rally for the global prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis. Given an estimated 200 million people worldwide and 1.2 million Australians are living with osteoporosis, and the disease is continuing to place a substantial burden on patients, carers and…
#GHPRCONNECTS: SPECTRUM’S HEADING DOWN UNDER!
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things,” said American writer Henry Miller. And starting this week, I’ll be privy to an entirely new way of seeing things from the opposite side of the world in Sydney, Australia as a part of the 2016 GLOBALHealthPR®Professional Exchange Program with our partner,VIVA!…