by Hayley Prenter | Jun 10, 2024 | Feature, News
Australian women have reported feeling abandoned and shamed by the health care system, with two thirds of women citing experiences of health care related gender bias or discrimination. The #EndGenderBias survey, conducted by the National Women’s Health Advisory...
by Clemency McRae | May 8, 2024 | News
Following a decline in bulk billing in Australia’s Medicare system, the Albanese government has found success with new incentives aimed at supporting healthcare affordability. The new financial rewards for General Practitioners (GP) who bulk bill, as well as the $6.1...
by Hayley Prenter | Apr 8, 2024 | News
The number of people living with dementia in Australia is expected to surge 94 per cent in the next 30 years. Dementia Australia estimates more than 421,000 people are currently living with dementia. Without a medical breakthrough, it is projected this figure will...
by Hayley Prenter | Mar 20, 2024 | Arts/Lifestyle/Culture, News
RadioU UOW · Calls to grow support for music therapy Music is said to have a healing power and that is true for six-year-old Sophie who accessed music therapy during treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Music is said to have a healing power, and that is true...
by Hayley Prenter | Nov 7, 2023 | Arts/Lifestyle/Culture, Feature, News
Benn, 43, and Rick, 69, were just teenagers when they discovered alcohol, an addiction that would haunt them decades into the future. Benn Veenker, 43, first found alcohol 30 years ago; aged 13, he would drink to suppress that little voice in his head – that...
