The campaigner Ayaan Hirsi Ali has criticised RANZCOG for contemplating the possibility of allowing "ritual nicks", a limited form of female circumcision, says the Daily Telegraph.
After hours medical services will be closed as government funding finishes in 11 months and the new phone-based service does not start until 2013, says the Illawarra Mercury.
A local councillor had his heart attack treated by nurses and paramedics because Yass Hospital did not have a doctor on duty, says the Yass Tribune.
GPs in Lismore want to convert the defunct Lismore Private Hospital into a GP Super Clinic like no other, says the Northern Star.
Cancer groups say a so-called ‘Safe Breast Imaging’ electrical impedance scan service being offered at beauty clinics is not an alternative to a mammogram and may put women’s lives at risk, according to the ABC.
Many in psychiatric community are worried that new DSM-5 guidelines will medicalise ‘normal’ conditions and encourage unnecessary drug use, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
Police were called to Merrylands Medical Centre in western Sydney after an 18-year-old man requested treatment for a gunshot wound to his leg, says the Sydney Morning Herald.
People with disabilities face a seven month wait for wheelchairs and other disability aids, NSW Health figures show, says the ABC.
Victoria is to build a unified e-health product catalogue to help health providers seeking to purchase medicines, medical devices and other healthcare items, says Computerworld.
The WA scheme to divert public elective surgery patients to private hospitals has failed to reduce waiting lists, the state’s health minister Kim Hames said has admitted, according to the West Australian.
Leprosy is a growing problem for some Pacific islands such Kiribati says the WHO, according to ABC Radio.
A pregnant woman infected with swine flu is in a critical condition in the Royal Hobart Hospital, the ABC reports.
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Quelle/Source: 6minutes, 30.07.2010
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