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Support Pink Ribbon Day this October – and make a difference to the lives of those affected by breast cancer.

This October, The Cancer Council Australia is asking all Australians to help us support women with breast cancer, by raising funds for Pink Ribbon Day (Monday 24 October).

The Minister for Family and Community Services and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women's Issues, Senator Kay Patterson, today called on women to be vigilant in the fight against breast cancer and urged more women to undergo breast screening.

MARK COLVIN: Australia's shortage of skilled workers is creating chances for disreputable migration agents to exploit professionals coming to the country to fill vacancies.
The Federal Immigration Department is investigating claims by six Indian nurses that an overseas migration agent duped them.

A new self-help video available from today will assist people affected by incontinence, and their carers, to more readily discuss bladder and bowel problems, the Minister for Ageing, Julie Bishop, said today.

New national guidelines to better manage high level aged care residents living with pain have been launched in Melbourne today by the Federal Minister for Ageing, Julie Bishop.

DOZENS of potential organ donors are being lost because hospitals are not identifying suitable candidates and are not treating dying patients long enough to preserve their organs, a State Government report says.

ANTIBIOTICS have transformed medical care in the last 50 years and banished many once-common illnesses, but a cloud is darkening these successes – rising antibiotic resistance, the phenomenon whereby disease-causing bacteria that were once wiped out by these drugs prove harder or even impossible to kill.

ABOUT 100 Bendigo mental health workers are on strike, refusing to do administration tasks until their conditions improve.

DEB Purves did not see it coming. The psychiatric nurse had been called to assess a man at an inner-city men's shelter, and he had just punched her square on the jaw.

It was easy for Julie to balance her responsibilities as a councilwoman of the Sang-guniang Kabataan in Barangay Parang, as a multi­awarded student and high-school valedictorian, as a varsity player on her school’s volleyball team, and as a daughter and sister. The discipline she has acquired has served her well, for Julie is now in a field that requires her presence of mind, her patience and attention to detail, and her compassion for other people. Unlike most nursing students, however, Julie Ann Manguerra doesn’t intend to leave for foreign hospitals the first chance she gets.