A $28M NURSES support fund has been introduced to the Western Australian health system and will see nurses in public hospitals benefit from improved and enhanced workplace facilities.
13/05/2009
Researchers at the University of Wollongong (UOW) have developed software that can benefit children’s cognitive skills and behaviour.
02/11/2009
BAYER Technology Services has officially opened its first regional office in India in an effort enlarge its presence in the growing Asian markets.
13/03/2009
WELCH Allyn and its distributor Samden Technologies have assisted the Kingdom of Bhutan’s Ministry of Health to implement the Rural Telemedicine Project, which aims to provide lifesaving treatment to patients living in remote areas through digital transmission of data between basic health care centres and the country’s hospitals.
26/06/2009
THE AUSTRALIAN Medical Association (AMA) has condoned a study urging technical jargon and acronyms to be banished from elective surgery patient consent forms.
07/09/2009
THE FDA advisory committee have met to discuss the new drug application (NDA) for Bayer’s rivaroxaban.
25/03/2009
THE AUSTRALIAN Government has released an expert committee’s evaluation of the BreastScreen Australia program and has said the valuable program will continue.
09/09/2009
A collaborative team of companies has developed a laser-coding system to track glass containers for parenteral use (eg. syringes) from the point of production to the end customer.
11/11/2009
A patient attending the Delaware Valley Urology Cancer Center has experienced the difference in length of radiotherapy treatment sessions from 20min down to less than five, since the hospital acquired RapidArc radiotherapy technology from Varian Medical Systems.
04/12/2009
Two patients have been surgically implanted with ImThera Medical's aura6000 neurostimulation device for treating tongue-based Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). Patients are being enrolled in ImThera's pilot clinical investigation in Belgium with the first results expected to be published in the first half of 2010.
11/12/2009
Sydney University investigators are set to undertake a systematic and comprehensive analysis of speech and language recovery experienced by traumatic brain injury (TBI) sufferers using a new web-based technology called AphasiaBank.
17/12/2009
Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney has become the first hospital in Australia to be formally accredited by Varian Medical Systems as a teaching facility for image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT).
28/01/2010
The European Commission has approved Herceptin (trastuzumab) in combination with chemotherapy for use in patients with HER2-positive metastatic stomach (gastric) cancer.
02/02/2010
Researchers at the University of Sydney suggest that paracetamol may provide more than just pain relief to those at risk of developing heart disease.
05/03/2010
Monash University researchers have made a discovery that may see cotton thread used as core material in low-cost 'lab-on-chip' devices capable of detecting diseases such as kidney failure and diabetes.
11/03/2010
MORE than two million Australians living with osteoporosis1 are set to benefit from the first once-a-month osteoporosis therapy, after it was today listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
01/07/2009
SCHERING-PLOUGH today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved new labelling for its PEGINTRON (peginterferon alfa-2b) and REBETOL (ribavirin, USP) combination therapy for treating chronic hepatitis C in patients three years of age and older with compensated liver disease.
16/03/2009