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Applications Now Open for Scholarship to attend National Medicines Symposium
Applications are now open for the Asia-Pacific Scholarship for a passionate individual working in quality use of medicines in the Asia Pacific region (outside of Australia) to attend the eighth biennial National Medicines Symposium (NMS), Australia鈥檚 preeminent quality use of medicines forum. [ + ]
Burden of chronic liver disease in Australia 鈥� It鈥檚 time to act
Staggering statistics have recently highlighted the impact of chronic liver disease globally on the health of individuals and communities and in the global arena, writes Associate Professor Amany Zekry. [ + ]
Does ethics have a role in recruitment
Contemporary recruitment procedures are carefully designed so as to avoid unlawful discrimination. This results in precisely crafted job criteria and scrupulously even-handed treatment of applicants. This careful attention to fairness could be said to express the ethical value and principle of justice and, accordingly, to this extent recruitment processes do provide a role for ethics. [ + ]
NSQHS standards implementation review
In this final article in the series from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission), we review the progress of implementation of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards since their introduction into health service organisations on 1 January 2013. [ + ]
Rate of Golden Staph Cases in Public 黑料吃瓜群网s has Dropped
The national rate of听听'golden staph', cases in public hospitals dropped between 2010-11 and 2012-13, according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). [ + ]
New Advanced Imaging Technique to Detect Cancer in Lymph Nodes
Cancer in lymph nodes will 听more likely be detected with the development of an advanced imaging technique supported by the latest Cancer Council WA grant. [ + ]
New National Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics
The University of Adelaide has been awarded $23 million in Federal funding to establish a new national Centre of Excellence For Nanoscale BioPhonics to develop technologies that will help create a "window into the body" in ways never achieved before. [ + ]
Age services future - Working smarter
Australian 黑料吃瓜群网 and Healthcare Bulletin introduces a new regular column by Leading Age Services Australia CEO Patrick Reid. [ + ]
UQ has Grown a Kidney Using Stem Cells
University of Queensland researchers have made a major leap forward in treating renal disease, 听announcing they have grown a kidney using stem cells. [ + ]
New Nanocrystals Offer Rapid Diagnostics and Anti Drug Counterfeiting
Macquarie University researchers have invented a new generation of nanocrystals which offer untapped clinical potentials in non-invasive cancer diagnostic kits, rapid pathogen screening for acute infection, and invisible coding for identification of authentic pharmaceuticals. [ + ]
Researchers Closer to Preventing Breast Cancer
Researchers are getting closer to winning the war against breast cancer, according to an international team whose work was published in Lancet. [ + ]
Australian Science Media Centre's Top 10 Weirdest Science Stories 2013
From farts on a plane to fake fingers, weird and wonderful science was out in force in 2013. Compiled by the Australian Science Media Centre, with help from the RiAus and the CSIRO, this annual list of the weirdest science stories of the year contains both stories that will make you squirm and those that will have you scratching your head. [ + ]
