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Labor compromises on cataract rebate
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 month ago
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The Senate struck out the Government's decision to halve the $600 rebate and the Opposition introduced a private members bill to keep the current rebate in place. But Health Minister Nicola Roxon says the bill is unworkable and unconstitutional. She will...
Tags: Senate, Nicola Roxon, cataract surgery, health minister, minister nicola, medicare rebate
The Australian: Children must wait for vaccine
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Australian adult in the nation's biggest immunisation scheme. Health Minister Nicola Roxon yesterday announced that the first swine flu jabs would be given to adults from September 30. Health workers, indigenous people, pregnant women and people with...
Tags: swine flu, clinic trials, health minister, flu vaccination, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, season flu, minister nicola, Nicola Roxon, health officials, Australia, Milwaukee
Swine flu vaccine strategy 'risky'
Canberra :: Australia | 3 months ago
Credibility The Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases says the multi-dose vials which the vaccine will be distributed in have been shown to transmit infection, spread HIV and hepatitis, and even cause death. Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon says the Government...
Tags: Australia, flu vaccination, swine flu, health minister, Nicola Roxon, minister nicola
Roxon weighs price of health takeover
Auckland :: New Zealand | 4 months ago
Credibility Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon says people will have to start considering what they are prepared to pay for better health services. Today Ms Roxon and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will begin six months of consultations on the recommendations put forward...
Tags: Nicola Roxon, Ms Roxon, health minister, health services, minister nicola
Swine flu now 'dominant' strain
Sydney :: Australia | 5 months ago
Credibility Health Minister Nicola Roxon said testing conducted in the week ending June 20 showed almost two-thirds of influenza cases were swine flu . "It seems likely from this pattern that the swine flu will be the dominant flu . . . that we experience in Australia...
Tags: swine flu, Victoria, Nicola Roxon, research projects, Australia, health minister, minister nicola, medical research, Gulu, ve got
Man with swine flu dies in hospital
Sydney :: Australia | 5 months ago
Credibility Western Australia suffering from swine flu and other medical problems has died, the first person infected with the virus to die in Australia. The man, 26, was admitted to the intensive care unit of Royal Adelaide Hospital on Monday and died yesterday.
Tags: swine flu, Western Australia, Nicola Roxon, Royal Adelaide Hospital, health minister, h1n1 flu, minister nicola, flu death, aboriginal man
Australia swine flu ship isolated
Sydney :: Australia | 6 months ago
Credibility A cruise ship carrying 2,000 passengers has been ordered to stay at sea off the coast of Australia after three crew tested positive for swine flu. The P&O Pacific Dawn, currently moored off Queensland, will now return to a major port rather than continue...
Tags: swine flu, Australian, cruise ship, Nicola Roxon, P&O Pacific Dawn, crew members, health minister, minister nicola, Queensland Health, Cairns
Liberals propose new alcohol tax
Auckland :: New Zealand | 6 months ago
Credibility THE price of all alcoholic drinks should be lifted under a compromise deal being offered by the Federal Opposition to agree to pass the Government's controversial alcopops tax hike through the Senate. A broad-based rise in the price of alcohol comes...
Tags: tax hike, health minister, minister nicola, means test, Nicola Roxon, insurance rebate
Australians await swine flu results
Canberra :: Australia | 6 months ago
Credibility Australia are awaiting test results for swine flu, Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon said today. “We do currently have a number of people, including a family, who have tested positive to influenza A,” Ms Roxon said in Melbourne today. “We're likely...
Tags: swine flu, Australian Associated Press, Nicola Roxon, test results, health minister, flu test, minister nicola, Ms Roxon
Swine flu causing 'unnecessary panic'
Melbourne :: Australia | 7 months ago
Credibility Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon says there are signs of unnecessary panic across Australia over swine flu. Ms Roxon was at pains today to urge people not to stockpile antiviral drugs and food. "We certainly are not advising people that there's any...
Tags: antivirals drugs, swine flu, Nicola Roxon, health minister, minister nicola, Australia
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