The Rudd Government should be commended for addressing the inefficiencies of Australia’s fragmented health system, Cancer Council Australia and the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia said today. However, remote patient travel assistance remaining a state responsibility will perpetuate geographic inequities in cancer care outcomes.
The nation’s largest independent disease prevention groups have called on the government to implement a comprehensive national obesity strategy following the release of a new study showing that obesity and overweight costs Australians $21 billion a year plus $35.6 billion dollars in government subsidies.
Five years after ratifying the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), Australia has a mixed report card on meeting its treaty obligations, five of the nation’s leading independent health organisations said today.
Escalating obesity has contributed almost as much as smoking to a doubling of oesophageal cancer diagnoses in Australia over the past 25 years, according to Cancer Council Australia.
US Government recommendations aimed at protecting the public from commercial exploitation of gene patents send a timely message to Australian policy makers, Cancer Council Australia and the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia (COSA) said today (19/2).
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