Prolonged grief not included in DSM-5
BOWING to pressure, the authors of DSM-5 have kept grief out of the diagnostic manual, according to an Australian psychiatrist.
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Health takes budget hit: $1.7 billion savings from Medicare
HEALTH was one of the major areas that took a hit in last night's federal budget as Treasurer Wayne Swan looked to limit the deficit, with more than $1.7 billion over four years collected through changes to Medicare.
Primary ups earnings estimate
MEDICAL centre operator and pathology group Primary Health Care has lifted its earnings guidance for the financial year, after net profit jumped 50% in the six months to 31 December.
GP denies groping claims
A HOBART doctor has denied grabbing a patient between the legs during a routine surgery visit last year.
India’s world of dreams
INDIA'S pace of development is staggering – but shadows lurk behind the Bollywood-inspired facade, writes Roderick Eime.
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- NDIS levy proposal will give ‘certainty to disabled’: Hambleton
- The blind lead in memory accuracy
- Valley of scorched dreams
- Australia in top five for out-of-pocket health costs
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- One daily soft drink increases diabetes risk by 22%
- New York push to raise tobacco purchase age
- Inquest begins into surgery death in 'beach chair' position
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- Infant death in outback ‘preventable’: Coroner finds GP acted inadequately
- Qld medical board must be sacked: Springborg
- Qlds medical board must be sacked: Springborg
- Vibrating fork fights the battle of the bulge
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- Historic gene patent case begins in US Supreme Court
- Sunken secrets
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- Warning on nips and tucks
- Sexsomniac cleared of child molestation
- ‘System failures’ led to miscarriage-related death
- Organ donor families need more support
- Cosmetic complaints rise: Doctors told to lift game
- Champagne uncorked
- Spy watch GP faces jail in UK
- Indigenous avoidable deaths drop
- Benzo use behind rising ED presentations
- Slimming aid linked to heart disease
- Remove asylum children from detention island: expert
- GP robbed of doctor's bag
- Spy watch GP faces jail in UK
- Legionnaires prompts decontamination in Adelaide CBD
- Drop in Indigenous avoidable deaths
- Flight of fantasy
- Time for a digital watch revolution
- Cut generics costs, save $1.3 billion: report
- Expert says use of third donor in IVF 'close to cloning'
- Professor Blewett calls for needle-exchange program in prisons
- Sex worker services in NDIS?
- Face your fears
- Where camping meets the surf
- As mad as a hatter
- Jayant Patel acquitted of manslaughter
- Warning on rising costs of dementia
- Look on bright side, die early
- NDIS cuts out polio survivors
- Detainees’ mental health fears
- 10 years' jail for hep C-infecting anaesthetist
- Call for NDIS to include sex worker services
- Polio survivors could miss out on NDIS
- GPs face allegations of discrimination
- No preferential treatment for self-harmers
- Rhino horn illegal remedies to be halted
- Turbines not to blame for health complaints: Di Natale
- Four Indigenous die after dialysis taxi service abolished
- Man who attempted to kill wife avoids prison
- GPs allegedly underpaid vision-impaired staffer
- Dutton hits out at 'waste' in health bureaucracies
- Mentally ill killer 'fell through the cracks'
- Police protection for unborn
- Doctors hit out at GPS tracking for mentally ill
- How pleasant scents can restore sense
- Millions spent yet suicide rates still a ‘tragedy’
- Patel jurors to be polled for bias
- Caution urged on tracking of addictive drug prescriptions
- Breastfeeding longer may protect against ovarian cancer
- French doctors jailed for radiation overdoses
- Targeting tumour DNA to treat cancer
- Doctor admits to doping ‘all kinds’ of athletes
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- Death follows legionnaires’ outbreak
- DNA used as data storage device
- Australia's UN plan to protect Syrian health workers
- Firefighter’s little pill to combat the blaze
- Testosterone and fish oil to combat Alzheimer’s in world-first Australian trial
- Lyssavirus warning on over-heated bats
- Listeriosis spike sparks food safety warning
- Lemon detox voted worst fad diet
- Abbott will be judged on abortion and IVF views: Roxon
- Death toll rises to 8 UN health workers in Pakistan
- Scientists reveal the reason for Rudolph's red nose
- Family wins right to sue WA govt over birth of brain-damaged baby
- GP 'dishonest' over Iraqi prisoner death
- Stroke patients missing out on lifesaving drug
- Most in need missing out on bariatric surgery
- Laws on drug mules leave doctors conflicted
- Experts call for action, not talk, on mental health road map
- Australian first: pregnancy using frozen ovarian tissue
- Govt firm on chemo drug price drop
- Edelsten caught in blackmail row
- Funding cut for chemo drug causes alarm
- Health a popular reason for growing cannabis
- Workplace drug testing not the solution: expert
- GP's age 'a concern' in coronial inquest into allergy death
- Woman dead after refused abortion in Ireland
- Clinton backs Carr's plan of protection for Syrian medical workers
- Plibersek and states exchange fire over health funding
- Healthcare employment numbers on the increase
- Qld hospital doctors investigated for pocketing private patient fees
- Online insomnia therapy billed as a world first
- Australians vote health care as number one priority
- Paediatric registrar warned doctors baby Elijah needed urgent meds
- GP tells infant death inquest there were no 'clear grounds' for antibiotics
- Older Aussies skipping meds due to rising cost
- Older people skipping meds due to rising cost
- Fake medical student cons NZ university
- Former Armstrong doctor proclaims innocence on doping
- Vic paramedic swapped fentanyl for water
- Fake med student cons NZ university
- Thousands of pills seized in illegal drug operation
- Mental health care shortfall to create more prisoners
- Italian doctor embroiled in Armstrong drug scandal could face criminal charges
- Claims TB outbreak in WA ‘mismanaged’
- Aussie anaesthetist commemorates Bali bombing 10 year anniversary
- Lack of mental health services will see spike in homeless, prisoners
- Illegal online medicines crackdown: 37,000 pills seized
- Dose concerns prompt typhoid vaccine recall
- Thousands of dollars worth of anatomically bungled posters to be shredded
- Funding debacle will see future doctors on ‘scrap heap’
- No injecting rooms: Vic govt stands firm
- New Nauru arrivals spur mental health warning
- Heroin addicts’ deaths due to ‘abysmal’ treatment
- Sydney doctor denies genital mutilation of daughters
- New Nauru arrivals spur mental health warning
- Disease definitions need rethink: Professor Savulescu
- Fake doctor arrested in Japan
- Cancer survival rates on the increase
- Australian researchers develop first genetic test for autism
- Surfing as safe as running, unless you're a competitor
- Construction workers' high alcohol and drug use rings alarms
- Whistleblower distressed after court frees Patel
- Patel to face new trial after manslaughter conviction quashed
- Child custody fears an obstacle to seeking help for mental illness
- Self-help website for anxiety patients launched
- Too much TV increases type 2 risk
- UK High court upholds euthanasia law, locked-in syndrome patient ‘devastated’
- Chemotherapy safe in pregnancy
- Extended detention detrimental to asylum seekers’ mental health: McGorry
- High court rules in favour of tobacco plain packaging
- Governments urged to tally the health cost of climate change
- Food ‘traffic light’ labels supported by Aussies
- Chilean senator slams fast food companies defying 'happy meal’ law
- NSW on board with NDIS launch, VIC yet to commit
- Antibiotics could have saved baby’s life, SA coroner finds
- Criminal charges over deaths mooted
- Melanoma gene discovery may lead to new drug treatments
- Sewage reveals drug hot spots in Europe
- Bovine colostrum evidence questioned for MS, Parkinson’s
- NRL doctor calls for ban on shoulder charge
- Call for criminal investigation into patient deaths
- Alzheimer’s heavy burden for most Aussies: survey
- $2.5b pledged for contraception access
- First State Super incinerates tobacco links
- Indian doctors suspended for banned prenatal sex tests
- 350,000 Pakistani children at risk as polio immunisation halted
- $2.5b to boost contraception in developing world
- Flu cases skyrocket as patients ‘soldier on’
- Few claims of coal seam gas illness: Qld govt
- Botox proves helpful for MS limb tremors
- Obama secures health care for all Americans
- Adolescence, not childhood, is when obesity is a problem
- Big tobacco using loophole to entice kids
- Eye on Roche after failure to report side effects
- Australia second in world for male obesity
- Police seeking information after murder of Sydney GP's wife
- One in 20 metastasis risk for women with localised breast cancer
- Perth pharmacist charged over pseudoephedrine sales
- Vaccine patch wins Aussie inventor award
- Poll predicts one in 10 will drop out of private health insurance
- Edelsten's $1.4m luxury car heist
- Brown's departure reveals accidental lesbian sex ban
- Millions wasted in screening overdiagnosis
- Qld mothers studied for effects of floods on fetuses
- Soccer players warned of risk of 'faking it'
- Half of sunscreen buyers fail to have regular skin checks
- Anaesthetist pleads not guilty to infecting women with Hep C
- Ronald Reagan blood sale slammed
- E-health advent will be slow: Plibersek
- Medical workers targeted in Syria
- 'Angel of The Gap' dies, aged 86
- Frozen embryos help lower risk of defects
- FDA approves HIV prophylactic
- Immunisation mandatory for family tax payment
- Red Cross worker's death jeopardises aid in Pakistan
- Facebook helps Aussies donate organs
- Soldiers to benefit from e-health
- Wallabies' Lynagh survives rare stroke
- Forum reveals 90,000 Aussie workers exposed to carcinogens
- Anger over 'violation' of HIV-positive prostitutes' human rights
- Facebook’s plea: share your organs not just your status
- HQCC yet to investigate doctor for turning off life support
- Call for mental health programs for miners
- Soldiers need e-health records, review finds
- It pays to hang on to your PHI: Choice
- Baby born with six legs to be operated on
- Full court to hear Big Tobacco's challenge against plain packaging
- NDIS to get bipartisan political support
- NZ apologises 40 years after wrong diagnosis
- National disability scheme to get bipartisan support
- Mother finds baby alive in coffin
- Call for truck drivers to undergo testing for OSA
- Oldest doctor dies at 114
- Patients "wait in pain" to access public treatment services
- Lack of digital records delayed life-saving treatment: Coroner
- Alcohol advertisers to be ‘named and shamed’
- Uruguayan nurses confess to 'mercy killings'
- Federal intervention blamed for Indigenous melioidosis deaths
- WA GP tells inquest about premature baby's death
- Diabetes in Gen Y set to skyrocket
- Govt must act before ‘tidal wave’ hits nursing homes
- Patel's whistleblower awarded compensation payout
- Senate report calls for apology for forced adoptions
- NZ anger as church claims Jesus cures cancer
- Suicide plan could have saved ‘concerned’ friend from jail
- Parents confront PM on NDIS delay
- Man jailed for assisting suicide
- Junk food, alcohol advertising should be targeted like smoking
- Daily brain training may prevent Alzheimer’s
- Warning on climate change and population health
- Private abortion clinics to advertise on UK TV
- Internet addiction as damaging as drugs
- Salmonella on the rise
- NRT no better than ‘cold turkey’
- Paedophile disability payment causes outrage in Greece
- Fad diets failing young women
- Diet guru calls for schoolchildren’s fat to be graded
- Botched surgery rife among cosmetic tourists
- More murder charges for nurse over nursing home blaze
- Tweet moods show capital differences
- Death toll to rise in nursing home inferno
- Regulate junk food marketing, consumers say
- Man’s gut pain blamed on botched hysterectomy
- Govt might not have the money to fight big tobacco over plain packaging
- Grandfather to sue Vioxx manufacturer in High Court
- Govt might lack funds to fight big tobacco
- Michael Jackson never revealed addiction, guilty doctor says
- Alcohol damages female brains three times faster
- Solariums turn a blind eye to teens tanning
- Roxon rejects AMA report card on hospitals
- Nitschke wants euthanasia laws back in NT
- Patients dying due to lack of stroke units
- Insomnia increases risk of infarction
- Victorian forced to fight thalidomide class action in Germany
- Mental decline of asylum seekers needs ‘radical rethink’
- Laser hair removal industry needs regulation, watchdog says
- ‘Vexatious’ big tobacco swamping plain-packaging push
- TGA knew of Fluvax side effects in 2009
- Bipolar magistrate survives sacking motion
- AMA calls for super clinics inquiry
- Jobs’ death likely a complication of rare cancer
- Doctors fear being sued on inadequate care
- Immobile aged-care residents dubbed ‘disruptive’
- ‘Alarming’ stigma leading to epilepsy discrimination
- Senate committee rejects bill to outlaw gene patents
- ‘Medieval’ stigma about epilepsy causes high levels of discrimination
- Doctors ‘out of their depth’, inquest told
- Roxon defends opt-in system for e-health records
- Managers smarter than staff – brain size proves it
- Hospitals fined for negligence over HIV organ transplants
- Nurse defends care after five patients die
- Heart patients missing out on cheap therapies
- Google fined $475m over pharmaceutical ads
- Surgeons to remove giant leg tumour
- HRT breast cancer risk linked to fall in screenings
- Not enough GPs as baby boomers retire
- Greens push for alcohol to be taxed nationally by volume
- Search software finds new treatment uses for drugs
- Senators call for U-turn on “ill-considered” PBS changes
- Gene discovery gives hope for non-invasive cancer screening
- Hospital ‘red card’ for rowdy patients
- Pharma-drug abuse causes spike in ambo alerts
- WA lashes Shorten on disability services
- Breakthrough in solving MS mystery
- Clinic sorry after elderly patient found ‘crawling’ in car park
- Nitschke applies for banned euthanasia drug on patients’ behalf
- Transplant rules work well, say experts
- Qantas flies the flag for prostate checks
- Cryonics founder takes frozen path to the future
- UK nurse linked to five 'sabotage' deaths
- PBS delays will cost Australia: AMA
- US progress on heart valve surgery
- Right to refuse treatment popular with medical students
- Doctor wrongly dismisses dying man as ‘junkie’
- Minister says sorry after hospital dumps miscarried fetus
- Pharmacist caught selling drugs without scripts
- Text messages may improve smoking cessation
- CVD lesson proves to be a lifesaver
- Contaminated pizzas pulled from shelves
- Call to probe sex toys link to infertility and diabetes
- Baby flown under ash cloud for surgery
- Patient refused access to specialist by Qld hospital
- Anger rises over PBS deferral of bowel cancer drugs
- Payroll bungle: Health workers forced to pay back millions
- Victoria rejects plan for injecting room
- Legionnaires’ incidence higher than normal
- Flexible training would benefit doctors with kids
- Happiness gene determines satisfaction with life
- No smoking signs may plant a craving for cigarettes
- Flexible training would benefit doctors with kids
- Qld court rejects surgeon’s manslaughter appeal
- Cancer cure case against dentist dismissed
- Indecent assault gynaecologist found guilty
- Weight loss worth years off life, say women
- Mercy killing woman pleads guilty
- Employment makes people healthier, say doctors
- Death inquest continues: junior doctor did not update notes
- Qld disasters wipe $8m off Primary’s bottom line
- Death inquest after surgeon misreads GP letter
- Doctors face tougher Medicare audit requirements
- Radiation fears for Japanese food imports
- Genital removal doctor guilty of grievous bodily harm
- More info on fast food menus wanted
- Sydney drug theft could make $43m of illegal amphetamines
- Doctor accused of masturbating teens during consults
- Doctor jailed after raping stripper who refused sex
- Patient denies agreeing to genital removal
- Larger ambulances needed to cope with growing obesity
- Computer virus shuts down ambulance network
- Lethal mothballs: experts call for ban
- Fake NZ doctor lied about London bombing
- Measles warning issued in Brisbane
- Incontinent falling foul of the law
- Two million Australian women have CVD
- Coalition claims commitment to e-health, despite plan to axe e-records
- Study confirms maternal age linked to autism