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A CSIRO report has warned climate change will threaten the region's economy and security unless governments and aid agencies start preparing for its impacts.
The two-part CSIRO report was commissioned by a new coalition of aid, church and development groups.
It warns that a two degrees Celsius increase in temperature by 2030 will have a devastating impact in northern Pakistan, India and western China.
A leading American researcher into mental health has been appointed to head a new schizophrenia research team in Australia.
Prime Minister John Howard will mark the start of mental health week today by outlining the expanded Medicare rebates available from next month for some psychiatry and other therapy.
Tasmania's Opposition says it is unacceptable that some patients have died while waiting to have surgery.
Medibank Private's managing director has defended increases to insurance premiums after it was revealed the company's profit rose 53 per cent in the past year.
Anecdotal evidence suggests drug-dependent mothers living in the ACT do not participate in detox programs because there are no services catering for women and their children.
Experts say at least one in five Victorians will experience mental illness at some stage in their lives.
A rural Queensland doctor has been named GP of the Year by the College of General Practitioners.
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons says an increase in waiting time for cardiothoracic surgery at the Royal Hobart Hospital has seen five patients die waiting for surgery.
India's Health Secretary has described a continuing outbreak of dengue fever as serious as the death toll rises and thousands of people report ill at overwhelmed hospitals.
There are plans to train more Australian surgeons to be specialists in treating trauma - the fourth-biggest killer of Australians and the most common cause of death in those aged under 44.
Singapore's environment agency has issued a health advisory as thick haze from fires in Indonesia choke the city-state.
The Rural Doctors' Association says country hospitals provide a "limited option" for medical graduates who need training to become qualified doctors.
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says the Federal Government's new mental health reform package is welcome but sells GPs short.
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says it is confident enough action has been taken to ensure a doctor practising in Harvey, Western Australia, poses no risk to the public, despite being described in a Victorian Government report as clinically incompetent.
The South Australian Health Department is warning people not to add Goldfish brand powders to their food.
ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope has rejected the idea the Government is responsible for health problems associated with a dust cloud coming from the Hume jail site.
The Jerrabomberra Residents Group is blaming a lack of government action for a spate of respiratory tract infections in Jerrabomberra and Letchworth, adjacent to the ACT.
A research team from Adelaide University has found that certain workers, like farmers and mechanics, are more at risk of being infertile.
A former Launceston psychiatrist has failed in his bid to overturn his removal from the medical register.
The New South Wales Health Department has ordered the recall of a powder used in Asian cooking after tests of the product revealed it contained the poison sodium nitrite.
The Northern Territory Government has denied claims by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) that there is an exodus of doctors to other states because pay and conditions are not as generous locally.
The New South Wales Health Minister John Hatzistergos has welcomed the Medical Tribunal's decision to give a 10-year ban to a Sydney doctor found guilty of performing an illegal abortion.
The Victorian Opposition says the Bracks Government has dropped the ball when it comes to preventing HIV infection.
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says medical professionals are leaving the Northern Territory because financial incentives are not generous enough.
The Tasmanian Government has lured four more dentists to work in the state.
Australian doctors looking into the causes of juvenile diabetes have uncovered some interesting findings.
There is a claim today that men who work regularly with pesticides are likely to face difficulties fathering children.
A 65-year-old pensioner from Uralla, in north-eastern New South Wales, has criticised the lack of dental services on the northern tablelands, after being forced to pull one of her own teeth.
A Sydney doctor who was found guilty of procuring an illegal abortion will not be able to apply to practice medicine again in New South Wales for 10 years.
Victorian Health Minister Bronwyn Pike says a weakness exists in the system for reporting clinically incompetent doctors.
The Gold Coast Drug Council says a federal MP's proposal to charge recreational drug users their own medical costs is flawed.
Patients using Canberra's after-hours medical service could soon be paying more, with the competition watchdog giving its in-principle support to proposed fee changes.
Western Australia's Health Minister Jim McGinty says he is urgently following up on a warning from his Victorian counterpart about a doctor working in the state.
An unusual scheme operating in Broome, in northern Western Australia, to curb sexually transmitted infections, could be expanded to the Pilbara in the state's north-west.
It has been revealed eight mental health patients spent a week in the emergency department of Royal Perth Hospital during the last financial year and one psychiatric patient was there for eight days.
The New South Wales Medical Board is moving to have an Iraqi-trained doctor convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting a patient at Grenfell, in the state's central west, struck off the medical register.
The New South Wales Opposition has urged a Peak Hill man to refer his concerns about local hospitals to the Health Care Complaints Commission.
The Australian Medical Association's (AMA) Capricornia representative says he is disappointed by the loss of an orthopaedic surgeon from the Rockhampton Hospital because of bad publicity about the doctor's past.
Workers on the top floor of RMIT's Bourke Street campus have begun wearing devices to monitor radiation levels.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that air pollution in cities across the globe is causing more than 2 million premature deaths every year.
Parliament House in Darwin will tonight be bathed in pink light in support of breast cancer awareness.
There are to be major changes in the way New South Wales ambulance officers handle suspected meningococcal cases, after an inquiry found the current protocols failed an 18-year-old Sydney girl, who died from the disease.
A doctor fired by two regional Victorian hospitals has been hired to work in a private clinic in Western Australia.
Scientists from Adelaide University have made what they claim is a world breakthrough in understanding how bacterial toxins cause severe gastro diseases.
A big boost in membership numbers has helped Medibank Private achieve a record profit result.
The New South Wales Health Department is calling for the national guidelines on detecting meningococcal disease to be widened.
An independent MP has accused the West Australian Government of acting hypocritically in considering banning smoke breaks for public servants.
Tasmanian health officials are hoping a drop in teenage smoking rates will ease the burden on the state's health system.
The Victorian Opposition says the State Government must do more to reduce the number of deaths caused by mistakes made in the state's hospitals.
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) says it hopes to have a full-time doctor service in Tennant Creek by early next month.
An orthopaedic surgeon, who was jailed 25 years ago in the United States for rape, has been cleared by the Queensland Medical Board to practice in the state.
About 4,000 new mothers in Queensland will be surveyed about the care they received after the birth of their babies.
Doctors in Perth are embarking on new research that could see the early signs of breast cancer detected in a breath test.
The Victorian Government has completed an investigation into how Victoria's Medical Board approved an overseas-trained doctor, who was later deemed unsuitable to work at two regional hospitals.
A new report reveals Victoria's Health Services Commissioner (HSC) uncovered incidents of private health records being left in public places.
An 11-month old baby is the fifth confirmed case of meningococcal disease on the New South Wales north coast this year.
Researchers at the Garvan Institute in Sydney have found a genetic marker that can identify men who are at highest risk of cancer spreading to other parts of the body after surgery.
A new training program for rural nurses that has been developed in Toowoomba is set to be expanded across Queensland.
A brother and sister whose mother died at the Launceston General Hospital two years ago have failed in their latest attempt to force a coronial inquiry into the death.
The Indian Government has summoned health ministers from four dengue fever-hit states after hundreds of people have been admitted to hospital with the mosquito-borne illness.
Tasmanian businesses and the State Government are at odds over whether a new Hobart hospital hinges on the proposed Bell Bay pulp mill going ahead.
Obesity experts are urging Australian GPs to practise what they preach and get fit if they want to get a healthy message through to their overweight patients.
An Anglicare report into the finances of Tasmanians with disabilities has found many are living in poverty.
The 'smoko break' may soon be a thing of the past for Western Australian workers.
New research shows an estimated 130 people in Tasmania were infected with hepatitis C last year.
A Victorian neurosurgeon is calling for the Tasmanian Government to negotiate for some patients to be treated interstate until the state's specialist shortage can be resolved.
Northern Territory health officials have embarked on a public education campaign in provincial East Timor, teaching locals how to monitor and control disease-spreading mosquitoes.
American scientists Andrew Fire and Craig Mello have won the 2006 Nobel prize for medicine for discovering how to control the flow of genetic information in a cell.
A remote health service on the Northern Territory-West Australian border says it is still without an air service to transport medical samples.
A peak poultry group says important human health concerns have been ignored in a review of the laws governing chicken meat imports.
The Tasmanian Government says it has reached a major milestone in reforming the state's mental health system. | 