The Reformulation Working Group of the Rudd Government’s Food and Health Dialogue has secured the agreement of leading manufacturers and retailers to salt level reduction targets across a variety of bread and breakfast cereals. ‘Bread and breakfast cereals are the first of several food categories being prioritised by the Food [...]

The next edition of the ANZCA Bulletin will be available early next week. The bumper 100-page issue features coverage of the National Pain Summit in Canberra, an interview with New Zealand’s Health Minister, Tony Ryall, a special report on the separation of twins Krishna and Trishna at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s [...]

On Wednesday, March 24 a new Education "top tab" will be introduced to the homepage of the ANZCA website. This replaces the current Fellows and trainees tabs. All education information for Fellows and Trainees will be placed in an integrated fashion beneath this tab.

The SSRS (Support Scheme for Rural Specialists) is now calling for applications for CPD grants of up to $5,000. These grants are available to support individual medical specialists to access education and professional learning opportunities.

The Minister for Sport Kate Ellis today congratulated Marty Mayberry on his silver medal in the standing downhill at the Vancouver Winter Paralympics today. ‘Marty has not just scored a medal for himself, but has taken Australia’s medal tally at this event past the haul at the last Winter Paralympics [...]

A new report examining the relationship between exposure to air pollution and asthma has been released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). The report Monitoring the impact of air pollution on asthma in Australia explores the Australian research in this area and presents a method for [...]

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Do you have a great story about how the Active After-schools Communities (AASC) program has helped your club increase its membership? We want to know about it!. For your chance to win a $500 HART Sport gift voucher tell us, in less than 500 words, how your club has benefited [...]