Australian in Medical News

MTF, Largest Tissue Bank, Provides Skin for Victims of Australian Wildfires

COSTA MESA, Calif., March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The deadliest wildfires in the history of Australia have now killed over 200 people and injured many more. Local medical institutions are filled with those who have escaped the blazes, many with severe burns. The United States' largest tissue bank, the M...

Cephalon Launches Takeover Offer for Australian Biotechnology Company, Arana Therapeutics

Arana Independent Directors Recommends Shareholders Accept the A$318 Million Offer, in the Absence of a Superior Proposal Australian Biotechnology Company Offers Strong Technology Platform and Phase II Antibody in Development for Inflammatory Diseases FRAZER, Pa., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-Fir...

Frost & Sullivan: Australian Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences IT Market Is Still Growing

CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Growth is expected in Australian pharmaceuticals and life sciences market. In 2007, pharmaceuticals spending on IT accounted for 80 percent or $258.6 million and will continue to drive the growth of this market. For the same period, life sciences sp...

ATS Medical Announces Australian Regulatory Approval for ATS 3f Aortic Bioprosthesis

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ATS Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATSI ), manufacturer and marketer of state-of-the-art cardiac surgery products and services, announced today that the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has granted approval for commercialization of the A...

Mottram Honours His End of the HBA Great Australian Run challenge

The historic inaugurual HBA Great Australian Run may be over but Australian champion runner Craig Mottram had one more challenge to complete - switching his health insurance to HBA. Melbourne, VIC (PRWEB) December 9, 2008 -- The historic inaugural HBA Great Australian R...

HBA People Walk the Talk for Better Health in the HBA Great Australian Run

Around 80 HBA, MBF and Mutual Community employees and their family and friends put their feet where their mouths were on Sunday to promote the benefits of exercise and to raise funds for charity in the inaugural HBA Great Australian Run. Melbourne, VIC (PRWEB) December ...

Indigenous Australian patients confused and frustrated by kidney disease

New Australian research has shown that Indigenous Australians with kidney disease are confused, frustrated and feel poorly informed about their illness. The study reveals Indigenous Australian's feel inadequately informed and are considerably more uncertain about the cause of their illness com...

New Cosmetic Trends Change the Face of the Australian Botox Market

Previously associated with glamourous celebrities and wealthy ladies of leisure, Botox is now evolving into an affordable non invasive cosmetic procedure as socially acceptable as the standard leg wax. No longer is a Hollywood film premiere the ultimate Botox occasion - recent trends have seen an...

China Medicine Corporation Obtains Australian Patent for rADTZ

GUANGZHOU, China, July 17 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- China Medicine Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: CHME; "China Medicine" or "the Company"), a leading distributor and developer of ethical and over-the-counter drugs, traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs), nutritional and dietary supplements, medic...

$100 million supercomputing program boosts Australian medical research capacity

Under a new Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative, The University of Melbourne in Melbourne Australia will host a $100 million supercomputing program and facility dedicated to life sciences. The initiative will develop the most powerful supercomputer and leading computational biology f...

Rising Australian biotech stars set to connect on the world stage

Two of Australias leading life scientists have been chosen from a highly competitive field of candidates to take part in an initiative by Merck Sharp & Dohme and Advance to boost the capability of the countrys burgeoning biopharmaceutical industry. Antisense Therapeutics Ltd (ASX code: ANP) R...

Cardium's InnerCool Therapies Unit Announces Australian Distribution Agreement for CoolBlue and Rapid Blue Systems

SAN DIEGO, March 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardium Therapeutics (Amex: CXM ) and its operating unit InnerCool Therapies announced today that InnerCool has entered into a distribution agreement with Lifehealthcare Pty Ltd., one of Australia's leading medical device distributors and healthca...

Thomson Scientific To Honor Australia's Top Researchers With Dedicated Australian Research Day

Thomson Research Award Ceremony Celebrates the Best in Australian Research During an Event to be Held at the National Press Club on 2 April PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC ; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of inf...

Video: BSP Pharma Inc. Announces Groundbreaking Findings from The Australian Centre for Complementary Medicine Education and Research Joint Health Clinical Study

Research has indicated that FlexNow(R) Joint Formula shows significant reductions in cartilage deterioration, joint inflammation, and joint pain. EGG HARBOR TWP., N.J., Nov. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- BSP Pharma Inc., the maker and distributor of FlexNow(R) Joint Formula, has announced the findings ...

Thomson Scientific Ranks Australian Universities and Research Institutes

University Of Melbourne Leads with 21 Top-Three Appearances; Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Takes Top Honors in Overall Impact PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC ; TSX: TOC) and leading p...

Bioniche Responds to Australian Equine Influenza Outbreak

- Equimune(R) IV product a proven treatment - BELLEVILLE, ON, Sept. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. (TSX: BNC), a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it has increased its supply of Equimune(R)IV to Austr...

Concerns Raised Over Risks for Patients and Staff in Australian Hospital

A report on the condition of The Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide in Australia has raised serious questions on the risks both the patients and the staff there are exposed to every day. Titled The Case for Change, it reveals a litany of problems with ageing facilities in two of the ho...

Doctors Not Exempt from Competition Law, Australian Commission Warns

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has warned doctors against operating closed shops and told them firmly they are not above the competition law . The Commissionss chairman Graeme Samuel last week brushed aside as untenable the claims that patient care somehow overrode other ...

Miraculous Recovery for Australian Child Whose Throat was Speared

On July 2, the five year-old HUGO Borbilas was leaning on the mailbox of his family's home waiting for a playmate to arrive when he lost his footing and became impaled on the cast-iron fence. An iron spike plunged fivecentimetres into his throat, narrowly missing his carotid artery, oesoph...

More Cancer Testing Urged in Australian TV Studios

The mysterious spread of breast cancer cases at the Brisbane studios of Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) continues to cause concern among its staff. Former news assistant Angela Eckersley is the 15th confirmed cancer case among the ABC staff who worked at the now-abandoned Toowon...

Character Test for Australian Visa Subjective

Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef continues to be in detention, despite a bail order by a Brisbane court and his visa has been revoked on grounds of national interest . But strangely the Australian government has not moved against Oday Adnan Al Tekriti, 38, a cousin and bodyguard to Saddam Huss...

I Am a Muslim With Moderate Views, Haneef Tells Australian Police

India is seeking consular access to Mohammed Haneef, currently detained in Australia, in connection with the failed Glasgow bombing. On Tuesday the Indian External Affairs Ministry summoned Australia's high commissioner, John McCarthy, to express its concern over the treatment of Haneef. ...

Subsidize Solar Water Heaters for Homes, Expert Tells Australian Government

As Australias federal elections near, the leading parties seek to position themselves as great champions of environment. But observers remain skeptical. Like Tim Flannery, the Australian of the Year Professor who has called upon both the ruling conservatives and the opposition to come out wit...

Wealthy Australian Women More Prone to Breast Cancer New Study

Contrary to conventional wisdom, women living in wealthy neighbourhoods in the Australian city of Sydney are far more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer . In contrast, women living in western Sydney have the lowest rates of the disease. The Cancer Maps for New South Wales, to be re...

Even Pre-diabetes can Kill, Australian Study Says

That diabetes is bad news for the heart is well known. But what is not is that even during the run up to it one could face serious challenges. While diabetes could lead to blindness, limb loss , severe heart disease and early death, a new Australian study says that people displaying merely the earl...

Indian-born Australian Scientist Wins Award for Stem Cell Research

Indian-born Australian Kuldip Sidhu has won the "2007 Top Invention Prize" for his work on stem cell research that, he says, is of "great relevance for India". The prize is awarded by BioMed North Limited, a not-for-profit agency for the management and commercialisation of intellectual prop...

Day Care Centres Possibly Give Rise to More Infection, an Australian Study

More and more young children in Australian are succumbing to infections. And that in turn could be linked to the fact more and more parents fall back on the day care centres. The survey of the medical records of 270,000 West Australian children found infectious diseases were the most common ...

Two Australian Teenagers Sentenced to Life for Murder

Two Australian teenagers who killed their friend and buried her under a house in Perth were setenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday . They cant be let out on prole till they are in their thirties. The two 17-year-olds, who cannot be named because of their age, pleaded guilty in March to the...

Paid Maternity Leave Pushed By Australian Rights Activists

According to Australias human rights chief, women are being "punished" in the workplace for producing the next generation . The president of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, John von Doussa, while reviving a bid for paid maternity leave to be put on the Federal Government's a...

Housework Helps Lower Diabetes Risk: Australian Study

Simple household tasks such as doing the laundry, ironing or washing up may reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease, an Australian study suggests . Researcher Genevieve Healy said while helping out around the house was no substitute for the 30 minutes of daily exercise recommended by...

Day Care Centres Possibly Give Rise to More Infection, an Australian Study

More and more young children in Australian are succumbing to infections. And that in turn could be linked to the fact more and more parents// fall back on the day care centres. The survey of the medical records of 270,000 West Australian children found infectious diseases were the most common ...

HIV Experts Criticize Australian PM's Suggestion for Ban on Entry of HIV-infected

HIV experts in Australia have criticized Prime Minister John Howard for calling for a ban on// the entry of HIV-infected persons and asserted that there was no evidence to suggest migrants were responsible for increasing HIV infections in the country. Prime Minister Howard had made the sugge...

HIV Experts Criticize Australian PM's Suggestion for Ban on Entry of HIV-infected

HIV experts in Australia have criticized Prime Minister John Howard for calling for a ban on the entry of HIV-infected persons and asserted that there was no evidence to// suggest migrants were responsible for increasing HIV infections in the country. Prime Minister Howard had made the suggesti...

Alarming Rise of Methamphetamine Use Among Australian Youth

Drug abuse is increasing at an alarming rate in Australia, among the youth// especially. Teens as young as 14 are turning to drugs and at least one in ten in that tender age group has tried them, according to Statistics on Drug Use in Australia 2006, released by the Australian Institute of He...

Ecstasy Makes People Bond Better, Says an Australian Study

Ectasy, the 'love drug' might be frowned upon. Dancing at all-night raves combined with heat, heavier sweating, and failure to drink enough fluids// can produce enormous harm. Ecstasy interferes with the body's ability to regulate temperature. It has been involved in deaths due to kidney or ca...

Kerala Hospital To Get Australian Accreditation

The Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), a leading hospital here, has successfully completed formalities for an Australian health authority's accreditation that will// help it attract patients from abroad. "A team of three surveyors of the Australian Council for Health Care Standards...

Sex Is Okay For Heart, But Not Cocaine - Says An Australian Study

An Australian study has found that sex does not increase the chances of heart attack, but cocaine lifts the risk up to 20 times, contrary to movie mythology. //The study reported that ‘while sex causes very little increased risk of heart attack, use of cocaine could lift the likelihood 20-folds’. ...

U.S., Australian Scientists Develop Vaccine Against Deadly Viruses

Scientists from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) here, in collaboration with counterparts// from the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong, have developed a vaccine to fight two deadly animal viruses that can infect and kill humans and are considered to...

Indian Australian Doctor not to Contest the Allegations

An Indian Australian doctor, convicted last month of illegal abortions, said she will not contest a series of complaints being heard by the New South Wales (NSW) Medical// Tribunal. Suman Sood, 56, said she would not contest the allegations, according to the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. ...

Indian Australian Doctor Charged for Performing Illegal Abortion

An Indian Australian doctor has been found guilty of performing an illegal abortion but was cleared of a charge of manslaughter of a premature baby.// Dr. Suman Sood was charged with manslaughter in November 2005 for allegedly failing to follow the procedures that make abortion legal in the s...