Hospital Equipment & Supplies Feature Articles for Australian Healthcare

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Emergency specialists linked with regional Australians 8/2/2006

Telstra and CSIRO have announced an agreement to provide hospitals with a tele-health solution that could help ease emergency specialist shortages in regional Australia.

Major collaboration to accelerate HIV vaccine development 7/31/2006

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced 16 grants totaling $287 million to create an international network of highly collaborative research consortia focused on accelerating ...

Virtual reality system for training practice of ear surgery 7/26/2006

The CSIRO ICT Centre, Medic Vision Pty Ltd and the University of Melbourne have signed an agreement for the commercial development of a virtual reality (VR) system for teaching ...

Paralysed patients able to convert thoughts into actions 7/24/2006

A multi-institutional team of researchers has found that people with long-standing, severe paralysis can generate signals in the area of the brain responsible for voluntary movement ...

Tomorrow’s ‘New Medicine’ touted as a bionic revolution 7/18/2006

As modern lifestyles and an ageing population cause a rapid decline in our health, Bio3, a futuristic initiative of the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Medicine is bringing new ...

Home telehealth market could reach US$2.1 billion by 2010 7/17/2006

A recently released white paper provided by Parks Associates concludes that "technological advances are taking over the home health industry." According to the report, the home health ...

Genetic parallels between lung development and lung cancer 7/11/2006

For over 100 years, biologists have speculated that cancer growth shares common features with embryonic development. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston now provide solid ...

Australian breakthrough in heart tissue engineering 7/10/2006

The Treasurer has announced a major breakthrough for international medical science in the field of tissue engineering by an Australian Research Institute.

New scoring system predicts gastric bypass surgery risk 7/5/2006

Duke University Medical Center surgeons have developed a simple scoring system based on five patient characteristics that can predict which candidates for gastric bypass surgery ...

Howard offers better mental health services for Australia 7/4/2006

On 10 February this year in Canberra, my colleagues and I on the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) committed to reforming the mental health system in Australia. Since then, ...

Australian technology approved as cervical cancer vaccine 6/22/2006

It is the world's first cervical cancer vaccine and has been approved in the United States. In addition, it could be on the shelves in Australia by the end of the year.

$10 million boost for health research into diseases 6/19/2006

The Commonwealth Government has announced a boost of $9.8 million for health research into chronic diseases, Indigenous health and the recovery process of older Australians who have ...

Australian researchers perform cell surgery via Internet 6/14/2006

In an effort to combine sophisticated laser and Internet technologies, scientists in Australia have successfully performed laser surgery and "optical trapping" in a Southern California ...

Western Australia to trial clinical trials technology 6/14/2006

WA is primed to trial groundbreaking, world-first technology that could fast-track the release of new medical treatments by dramatically improving the efficiency of clinical trials. ...

Australia offers advantages to medical device and diagnostics companies 6/9/2006

Australia offers companies engaged in the medical devices and diagnostics sectors a number of inherent advantages - access to a mature and skilled medical workforce of clinicians, ...

Australia's medical devices respected around the world 6/9/2006

Australia’s medical device industry is an exemplary model of research and commercialisation, a wealth of opportunity for investment and international collaboration, writes

Wireless healthcare in Australia 5/19/2006

Monash Medical Centre (MMC) in Melbourne is in the middle of a wireless trial that aims to plug the gap between bedside care and the hospital’s centralised information systems. ...

Trial of electronic health records 5/18/2006

Healthelink, the first NSW pilot of a revolutionary electronic health records system to improve patient care and speed up treatment, is underway in Hunter.

Victoria looking to rebuild health system 5/18/2006

The Bracks Government wants every Victorian to have access to world-class health care when and where they need it.

Health reform needs to be championed by health leaders 5/17/2006

Health reform needs to be championed by health leaders, responsive to community needs and securely funded, to be sustained and benefit the health of Australians according to a new ...

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