19 Feb 2024
New online medical resource on TSC for GPs\
TSA thanks Sanofi for agreeing to support the development of a new online medical resource on TSC for General Practitioners (GPs).
19 Feb 2024
TSA’s eNews February 2024
Welcome to TSA's first eNews for 2024. Happy New Year to you all.
19 Feb 2024
Free vision screens for 2024 Prep students under way in Queensland schools
Children's Health Queensland's annual free Prep vision screening program is under way for 2024, screening the state's youngest students.
19 Feb 2024
Feminist language being hijacked to market medical tests
Narratives around empowerment and women’s rights are being co-opted to market interventions not backed by evidence, according to new research.
16 Feb 2024
Lung Foundation Australia statement regarding National Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 Plan
The Australian Government, Department of Health and Aged Care on Thursday 15 February 2024 released a new national plan for responding to post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), commonly known as long COVID.
16 Feb 2024
Registered nurse who stole PPE during a national shortage disqualified from applying for registration for a year
A tribunal has reprimanded and disqualified a registered nurse from applying for registration for 12 months after she used her position as an educator and supervisor to steal personal protective equipment (PPE) during a national shortage and global pandemic.
16 Feb 2024
GPs encouraged to upskill in opioid dependence treatment
An RACGP program aims to help GPs better understand this ‘rewarding’ area of medicine and boost authorised prescriber numbers.
16 Feb 2024
‘We’re just different – and it works really well’
The director of Banksia Medical Centre, Dr Bernard Shiu talks about the approach that led to the clinic becoming the RACGP’s general practice of the year.
16 Feb 2024
Most Australian women live close to breast screening services but some face longer travel times
More than 9 in 10 Australian women live within a 20-minute drive of a permanent or visiting BreastScreen Australia screening service in 2021, according to a new report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
16 Feb 2024
COVID-19 update 16 February 2024
COVID cases in SA There have been 1,479 new cases of COVID-19 reported in South Australia in the past week.