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Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to promote exchange in health and medical research between the two countries over the next three years.
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The Australian designed cochlear device has been implanted in nearly 200,000 patients worldwide, revolutionising sound perception for the profoundly deaf. In 1974, a commercial television station in Australia held a telethon to raise funds to take an obscure Australian biotech project to prototype. Four years later, the medical device was implanted in the first human [...]
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Global deaths from swine flu (the H1N1 virus) have risen by more than 1,000 in a week, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). More than 7,800 people have died from the virus since it was first discovered in April. The Americas recorded a death toll rise of 554 cases in one week, while Europe [...]
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New Zealand has agreed to contribute NZ$420,000 to the World Health Organisation (WHO) to assist distribution of the swine flu vaccine to the Asia-Pacific region. In September, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Health Minister Nicole Roxon pledged to donate up to 10 percent of our pandemic (H1N1) vaccine to the WHO for use in [...]
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Representatives from the global travel and tourism industry have united to support MassiveGood, a global health initiative created by the Millennium Foundation for Innovative Finance for Health. “We pledge, by supporting this initiative, to encourage our industry to help raise funds to treat the sick in the poorest of our world’s countries,” announced the coalition [...]
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The world is doing well to reduce poverty but the global recession is still a threat to Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the United Nations. The United Nations Millennium Development Goals Report 2009 shows that while we’ve done a lot to reduce the number of people in extreme poverty, the global economic downturn may [...]
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called the swine flu pandemic “unstoppable” with almost 100,000 confirmed cases of the A(H1N1) virus and 429 recorded deaths from the disease worldwide. Australian cases passed 9,000 at the weekend, with 19 deaths. Health authorities have ordered 21 million doses of a swine flu vaccine, which WHO says will [...]
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The latest World Health Organisation (WHO) report on swine flu indicates that 94,512 cases of the A(H1N1) virus have been confirmed worldwide, with 429 deaths attributed to the disease. Australia leads the Asia-Pacific region with 5,298 cases, while Britain has recorded the most cases in Europe, 7,447. The flu, which originated in North America, has [...]
...read moreThe World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday released figures showing that confirmed cases of swine flu have reached 70,893 worldwide, with 311 deaths recorded from the A(H1N1) virus. The number of confirmed cases surged by more than 11,000 since WHO’s last bulletin on Friday, and deaths rose by 48 over the same period. The USA accounted [...]
...read moreThe World Health Organisation has upgraded swine flu to global pandemic status, lifting the A(H1N1) virus to phase six on the alert level. Swine flu is the first global influenza pandemic since the Hong Kong influenza, more than 40 years ago. However, the escalation merely reflects the spread of the virus, now in more than [...]
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