The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released specific recommendations for dental healthcare professionals to prevent transmission of the 2009 H1N1 Influenza virus.
26/11/2009
CERAM has announced its forthcoming event ‘Materials Analysis & Consultancy in the Healthcare Sector’ which will be held on 15 October 2009 at Ceram, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.
05/08/2009
QUEENSLAND is poised to recruit health specialists whose jobs are threatened at the Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) as a result of budget cuts by the West Australian Liberal/National Government.
13/10/2009
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued safety information regarding Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) systems. Healthcare professionals have been notified by the US authority regarding deaths and serious complications associated with the use of these systems.
24/11/2009
KODAK and MyMedicalRecords (MMR) have signed an independent software vendor (ISV) agreement to enhance how doctors provide electronic patient information online. As part of the ISV, Kodak Scanners and Kodak Capture Pro Software will work with the MMRPro System and Personal Health Records (PHR) products.
27/08/2009
A summit is being held this month to focus on issues surrounding information technology in Australia’s healthcare system. The Technology in Healthcare Summit 2009 will be held in Melbourne, November 16-17, 2009.
10/11/2009
A new educational resource has been released as a video podcast to raise awareness of the effects of haemophilia, von Willebrand disease, rare factor deficiencies and inherited platelet disorders.
17/04/2010
EXPRESSMD Solutions has announced it has received 510(k) market clearance from the FDA www.fda.gov for its remote patient health monitoring system.
17/04/2009
A NEW web resource, Mykidneyinfo.net, will be launched this month with the aim of improving patient care for those suffering kidney diseases.
01/06/2009
Patient Patient care will be improved and inefficiency in the health system will be cut by new e-health legislation soon to be introduced by the Federal Government, says Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon.
01/02/2010
THE AUSTRALIAN Herpes Management Forum (AHMF) is asking for healthcare professions to identify patients diagnosed with and treated for genital herpes to participate in an online patient perspective study of herpes management and treatment.
01/06/2009
The federal government has announced that it will review the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in 2009.
12/01/2009
Healthcare professionals and their patients living with renal failure now have access to an online resource dedicated to peritoneal dialysis (PD). The new website includes an educational video featuring a PD patient who sailed solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
11/03/2010
THE FDA has amended warning letters sent in March 2009 to nine companies asking them to stop manufacturing 14 unapproved narcotic drugs after realising the desperate need of one unapproved drug.
21/04/2009
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has released new Australian Guideline for the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE), aimed at lowering the risk of potentially fatal blood clots for adult patients admitted to hospitals.
04/12/2009
AUSTRALIA’S oral health status has ranked second worst in the OECD Community Services and Health Industries face skills crisis in oral health.
30/07/2009