Wage Rise Needs More Money: Aged-Care Providers
A new aged-care workforce compact, according to the federal government, would provide a total of 350,000 workers with supplementary payments. After the same, it has been warned by aged-care providers that the amount of $1.2 billion would not even be close to enough.
It is being said a threefold expansion of the workforce by 2050 would most possibly not be seen with the aforesaid amount.
Researchers Not Confident about e-Cigarettes
Health experts have cautioned people over e-cigarettes, a tool devised to quit smoking, which is going to reach the market soon.
Though they have not been permitted for sale, they are being legally sold in Australia. However, nicotine solution is not available as it is a scheduled poison. The ones who wish to consume them should order them online from overseas.
Law Firm Appeals Against BRCA1 Gene Patent
After a decision by a court for not allowing a private sector from controlling a gene, an appeal has been made in a federal court against this.
Cancer groups have responded by saying that a win for the same is necessary to protect patients from treatments and several tests.
Patel’s Plea of Non-Guilty got Accepted in Supreme Court
Jayant Patel, former Bundaberg Hospital surgeon, has been accused of manslaughter by allegedly giving a wrong treatment to a 75-year-old pensioner Mervyn Morris. Morris died of complications in heart and lung failure three weeks after the surgery was done by Patel. Patel pleaded not guilty in the Supreme Court in Brisbane saying that Mr.
Lack of Vitamin D Leads to Food Allergies in Infants: Study
A new study conducted by the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) in Melbourne has found that there is a connection between the vitamin D levels and food allergies in children. The results reveal that those one-year-old children who have any kind of food allergies are 10 times more likely of having the low vitamin D levels.
Stem-cell-like treatment gives premature babies hope
Researchers at Melbourne-based Monash Institute of Medical Research have developed a stem-cell-like treatment for damaged lungs of premature babies.
Researchers have already showed how the experimental amnion epithelial cells treatment could be used to prepare the lungs of premature lambs; and now they are preparing to test the research on ten premature babies in Malaysian hospitals.