RECENT developments in the electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP) and secure individual electronic health records aim to deliver significant benefits to general practitioners and patients.
14/04/2009
THE AUSTRALIAN Federal Government has signed a contract with Balance! Healthcare to run a five million dollar Blue Mountains GP Super Clinic.
16/02/2009
THE Victorian government has announced newborns will receive free vaccinations to combat a whooping cough outbreak.
16/06/2009
A WORLD-LEADING obesity expert has today publicly commended the recommendations proposed by the Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Obesity for their recognition of obesity as a serious, chronic disease requiring General Practitioners to diagnose and treat it like other chronic diseases, such as diabetes and arthritis.
03/06/2009
QUEENSLANDERS at most risk of complications from human swine influenza will be among the first to benefit from the vaccine rollout which begins across Australia today.
30/09/2009
AUSTRALIA'S independent medicines' regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), has announced it will register the CSL pandemic influenza (swine flu) vaccine.
22/09/2009