Wagga Base Hospital’s plight has finally been made public after federal Health Minister, Nicola Roxon, was asked about how Hobart Hospital has been promised $100 million simply because independent Andrew Wilkie represents the area.

Tamworth Base Hospital has taken over Wagga as well and the reason being cited is that independent Tony Windsor is on the chair of that area.

The most common ailments of aging are getting Melbourne-based Broadvector Limited attention.

Oz will soon have an access to the latest in prostate cancer treatment and hip replacement therapy.

Today after submitting a prospectus with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, about 8.5 million will be floated by the biotechnology company.

The national medical registration boards has been contacted by the Queensland Health (QH) director-general Mick Reid regarding the delays in processing new applications.

Reid expressed support for the changeover to national registration for health workers.

It was stated by him that to process applications from overseas-trained nurses and doctors in particular it was being taken longer.

It has been stated by Australian scientists that Alzheimer's disease could be caused by brain rust.

It was stated that among people who were above 60 years of age, 10 per cent were afflicted by an imbalance in the metals needed for healthy brain function has been found at the root of the degenerative disease.

Missing link on childhood obesity has been found by the co-author of a new study into what Australian babies are being fed.

Co-author Associate Professor Jane Scott from Flinders University stated that eating habits of about 500 babies who were less than a year old in the Perth area were looked at for the study.

High heels will be ditched by Queensland Premier Anna Bligh as a night will be spent by her working as an orderly in a Brisbane hospital.

Bligh said this while stating that this attempt of hers will be a part of the State Government's Walk A Day In My Shoes campaign. Her aim is to get MPs have a feeling of the general community.

Bligh expressed keenness to help out in the hospital wards.

Hopes to help add hundreds of millions of dollars to the value of trade with PNG over the next few years have been reflected by the Australian state of Queensland's new special trade representative to Papua New Guinea, Jeremy Blockey.