Monday, March 28, 2011

DrsToolBox

DrsToolBox is an initiative created in consultation with doctors. It provides health care professionals with access to fully interactive 3D images and animation in an exciting to use interface to assist them to better communicate to patients in the consultation process.
The resource is divided into different condition areas and provided doctors and nurses with an integrated compendium of information, publishing and filling tools to positively enhance the patient information process.

For more information, go to: www.DrsToolBox.com 




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DrsToolBox




DrsToolBox is now available and included in the latest edition of Best Practice Software. This is a World first and only available free initially through BPS. DrsToolBox provides unrivalled images and animations created in 3D technology. Each image can be manipulated to a patients condition, printed and/or saved to file. There are 9 conditions available in the first release with regular updates released quarterly. Take advantage of the BPS offer or contact PushPull Medical for more information.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

DVDHealth Pain DVD Update

Thank you to all who have been involved so far. We are very excited about the Pain DVD and look forward to its release next year. Stay tuned!!


In the meantime, if you want to see one of our finished projects got to DVDHealth to purchase a copy of our Osteoporosis Health Management DVD with interviews with specialists and patients with osteoporosis.

Or call us on +612 9262 3315 to order your copy 


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We have begun the exciting task of creating a new DVD for our series DVDHealth. Pain is our new topic, and we have started to make a full length DVD. We have a huge task ahead of us, and we are collaborating with some great organisations in order to do this.

It will help revolutionise the way we understand pain in the public space, and hopefully educate people on the needs of those who suffer from chronic pain.

Stay tuned for the release in January 2011. Not too far now!!

PPM

Bread Bakers - Salt Shakers? - Too much salt in Aussie Bread!!

Less than half of bread products in Australian supermarkets have acceptable salt levels, according to data released today by Sydney based, The George Institute for Global Health.


Read the full story here.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Baby boom slows, but more births to older mothers

A fall in the rate of women giving birth suggests the baby boom may have peaked, according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).


The report, Australia’s mothers and babies 2008, shows there was a 0.6 percentage point fall in the overall rate of women aged 15 to 44 years giving birth, from 64.9 per 1,000 women in 2007 to 64.4 per 1,000 women in 2008. Of these, an estimated 3.2% of women who gave birth received assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment.


‘The proportion of older women giving birth has continued to rise over the past 18 years,’ said Associate Professor Elizabeth Sullivan, of the Institute’s National Perinatal Statistics Unit located at the University of New South Wales.


Source AIHW - November 2010


Read the full article here.

'Missing’ bacteria in Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Ulcerative Colitis patients identified

Scientists on the Norwich Research Park have identified some bacteria that are low in abundance in the gut of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and ulcerative colitis (UC) patients compared to healthy adults.
This finding could be relevant to preventing or managing these conditions to maintain health.

Using molecular profiling techniques Institute of Food Research scientists have identified significant abnormalities in the faecal bacteria of UC and IBS patients. Previous studies have shown a reduced microbial diversity associated with UC and IBS but have not identified which groups of bacteria are missing.

“A better understanding of which bacteria or bacterial populations are relevant to ulcerative colitis and IBS is important if microbial interventions are to be used in preventing or managing these conditions,” said Dr Arjan Narbad from the
Institute of Food Research.