ASEAN READY TO PROVIDE FURTHER ASSISTANCE TO MYANMAR
SINGAPORE, May 9 Asia Pulse - ASEAN senior officials
reiterated the grouping's readiness to provide further
assistance including sending medical and rescue teams to
cyclone-hit Myanmar. They look...
Asia Pulse News -
Friday May 9, 2008, 8:55 pm
Crippling shortages put PNG children in grave danger
Papua New Guinea's largest hospital, Port Moresby General, has run low on drugs and beds before. But now it has run out of food.
This means that in many cases, children are going for days without...
ABC Business News -
Thursday May 8, 2008, 4:37 pm
AMA welcomes burnoff controls
The Australian Medical Association suspects public pressure has played a big part in proposed new controls on forest regeneration burns.
Tasmania's Forest Practices Authority plans to introduce...
ABC Business News -
Thursday May 8, 2008, 11:38 am
Long wish lists for WA state budget
Tax reform, a children's hospital and hundreds more hospital beds are on West Australian wish lists for the boom state's election-year budget to be delivered on Thursday.Treasurer Eric Ripper...
AAP -
Wednesday May 7, 2008, 7:15 pm
Indigenous health budget 'a bit short': AMSANT
The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance has described the Northern Territory budget for the next financial year as being 'light' on funding for health services in remote areas.
While welcoming...
ABC Business News -
Wednesday May 7, 2008, 12:01 pm
Nurses lift work bans at Sydney hospital
Nurses at Sydney's Prince of Wales Hospital emergency department have agreed to lift work bans.
The nurses shut down beds last week because of staff shortages and the strain of caring for mental...
ABC Business News -
Tuesday May 6, 2008, 10:49 am
Mental unit to test security response times
The New South Wales Nurses' Association says it will be testing security response times to the mental health unit at Concord Hospital in Sydney's inner west.
The association has raised safety...
ABC Business News -
Monday May 5, 2008, 12:11 pm
Supermarkets urged to join fight against obesity
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is calling on supermarkets to change the way they present their products to help tackle the growth in obesity rates.
The AMA's Rosanna Capolingua says...
ABC Business News -
Sunday May 4, 2008, 1:21 pm
Hospital plan violates parklands: councillor
An Adelaide City councillor says the planned Marjorie Jackson-Nelson Hospital would breach zoning rules for the parklands.
Health Department officials have met councillors and the Adelaide...
ABC Business News -
Friday May 2, 2008, 8:58 am
NY Times reporter details pharmaceutical company marketing methods
Next time you hear a story about how a major medical journal is reporting a treatment breakthrough, you might stop and think for a moment about what lies behind the report.
Was the research done...
ABC Business News -
Wednesday April 30, 2008, 8:24 pm
KMA Global Solutions International Announces New DUALTag Program for Medical Device Supplier
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, April 30, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- KMA Global Solutions International, Inc. (OTCBB:KMAG) (Frankfurt:VVS) announced today that a supplier of medical devices will be using KMA's...
PrimeZone -
Wednesday April 30, 2008, 5:05 pm
Spotless' Programmed Bid Grinds On
Spotless Group half a billion dollar hostile bid for rival services provider, Programmed Maintenance Services continues to grind on, but with the bidder's statement sent to target shareholders...
Australasian Investment Review -
Wednesday April 30, 2008, 8:12 am
BASIS POINT-Healthscope seeks A$850 mln loan refinancing
MELBOURNE, April 29 (Reuters Basis Point) - Australian
healthcare company Healthscope Ltd (ASX: HSP.ax) will next week
launch to general syndication an A$850 million ($794...
Reuters Finance News, Australia -
Tuesday April 29, 2008, 5:44 pm
PHILIPPINE BUSINESSWOMAN INVESTS IN JAPAN-STYLE MEDICAL SPA
RIO TINTO NICKEL PROJECT GRANTED TAX PRIVILEGE IN INDONESIA CEBU CITY, April 29 Asia Pulse - A Filipino entrepreneur has
invested millions of pesos into two medical spa outlets that
use technology...
Asia Pulse News -
Tuesday April 29, 2008, 12:41 pm
Siemens board member resigns amid ongoing corruption probe
BERLIN (AFP) - Siemens said Wednesday that Erich Reinhardt, head of its healthcare sector, would resign on April 30, amid a vast corruption scandal at the German engineering group.Reinhardt, 61, and...
AFP Finance News -
Thursday April 24, 2008, 3:33 am
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