Monthly Archives: February 2010

A new report issued on 24 February finds ovarian cancer is the sixth most common cause of cancer-related death for Australian women and the most common cause of gynaecological cancer death.

Australia has made its first contribution under international efforts to support the rollout of the H1N1 vaccine to developing countries. It has supplied 600,000 doses of the vaccine to Laos.

Landmark legislation to support implementation of a national system of registration and accreditation for 10 health professions has been introduced in Parliament.

Private health insurance premiums will increase by an average of 5.78 per cent from 1 April 2010.

Australian Organ and Tissue Donor Week 2010 was launched at Parliament House on 23 February. Australian families have been asked to think about organ donation, and know each other’s wishes about donation.

Phil calls for more drastic action to stop people from smoking.

Daniel says that the government should allocate more money to the states and territories to fund health care.

Phillip would like to see more national policies to support community and aged care teams and to help them “move faster when people are in real need”.

The ANZCA trainee email system will be down for maintenance tomorrow, Wednesday, February 24 from 9am until 1pm. During this time trainees will not be able to access the system.

A copy of this world leading document, which provides the scientific evidence for the practice of acute pain management, is now available online.