Australian surgeons are using a new statistical model that predicts an individual patient's chances of success for a common type of vascular surgery and guides patient care.
10/12/2009 |
Queensland researchers have developed a non-invasive way of diagnosing Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), Australia’s most common sleep disorder.
13/11/2009 |
AUSTRALIAN expert Professor Raina MacIntyre has warned face masks worn by many healthcare workers do nothing to protect them during a pandemic influenza outbreak like the world is now seeing with swine flu.
21/09/2009 |
THE WESTERN Australian government has announced the $116million redevelopment of Rockingham General Hospital has moved closer to completion with the opening of a new two-storey ward block
11/09/2009 |
DOCTORS at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Centre have started treating cancers and neurological disorders with highly-accurate, non-invasive, image-guided radiosurgery using the Novalis Tx radiosurgery platform from Varian Medical Systems and BrainLAB.
04/09/2009 |
MARKETSANDMARKETS has published a new healthcare market research report entitled ‘Global Top Ten Medical Device Technologies Market (2009 - 2014)’.
31/08/2009 |
ST VINCENT Hospital has used its Rudd Government $450,000 grant to purchase additional surgical equipment to help reduce waiting times for elective surgery.
28/08/2009 |
A CALL for expressions of interest from the private sector for involvement in the development and provision of health services for the Albany Health Campus has received a strong response, the Liberal-National Government says.
25/08/2009 |
THE LABOR Government’s plans to cap Medicare payments for IVF treatment has been pulled into question with the coalition joining forces with two key cross-bench senators to delay a vote on the draft laws.
21/08/2009 |
INVITROGEN has announced the availability of its PlexMark 3 Renal Biomarker Panel Assay which has been developed as a new biomarker tool for use in pre-clinical research into kidney function.
04/08/2009 |
THE NATURAL Orifice Surgery Consortium for Assessment and Research (NOSCAR) has announced Olympus' continuing commitment to funding research in an emerging minimally invasive transdisciplinary therapy known as Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery.
24/07/2009 |
PATIENT Care Technology Systems (PCTS) and Awarepoint have announced a co-marketing agreement to provide real-time workflow solutions for health care facilities.
10/07/2009 |
IDENTIGENE says 50,000 of its DNA Paternity Test Kits have been purchased since retail sales began in a West Coast test market in November 2007.
09/07/2009 |
WELCH Allyn has won a Best in Class award in the Surgical Instruments and Devices category from GHX, a collaborative trading and exchange organisation working to advance the healthcare industry.
29/06/2009 |
THE Western Australian Government has announced it will inject $14m into the states palliative care services.
27/05/2009 |
ABBOTT has announced the initiation of Mobility, a clinical trial into the safety and efficacy of the Absolute Pro Peripheral Self-Expanding Stent System in patients with iliac artery disease.
16/04/2009 |
RESEARCHERS at Cook Medical’s new $21m headquarters at Brisbane Technology Park are in the process of developing the zenith endovascular stent graft, a device which they hope will make open heart surgery a thing of the past.
14/04/2009 |
THE THERAPEUTIC Goods Administration (TGA) has approved the world’s first intradermal (ID) influenza vaccine, Intanza, for the prevention of seasonal influenza in adults and the elderly
02/04/2009 |
THE FDA advisory committee have met to discuss the new drug application (NDA) for Bayer’s rivaroxaban.
25/03/2009 |
A NEW operating theatre at ACT’s Calvary Hospital has been officially opened.
19/03/2009 |