Sandoz Australia, the supplier of the drug, recently asked the PBS to increase the price of the patches because the listed cost was no longer sustainable due to manufacturing costs increasing during the Covid-19 pandemic. When the request was refused, Sandoz announced it had requested the products be delisted from the PBS from June, a move that would make the patches available via private prescription only meaning patients would have to pay full price.
It prompted the Australasian Menopause Society, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and the Endocrine Society of Australia to write a joint letter to the health minister Greg Hunt to urgently reconsider and to work with Sandoz to strike an agreement.
They will be more likely to suffer from a myriad of pain conditions just because of their gender.
Their pain won’t be believed or treated in the same way that it would be if they were boys.
They will only earn 87 cents to the dollar of the boys when they grow up.
The statistics make me sick to the stomach. Every one of them is directly related to pain and is a risk factor for developing chronic pain. Despite this, women’s pain is not considered a national health priority in Australia.
Last Thursday the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists held a women’s health summit with the theme Time to Act. And looking at those stats, how can it not be? The summit was an incredible opportunity filled with passionate professionals all wanting to make a difference for women across Australia.
Umbilical cord blood banking: Should I do it for my baby?
15 May, 2021 05:00 PM
17 minutes to read
Simone Anderson, Laura McGoldrick and Megan Papas.
Umbilical cord blood banking is appearing on social media feeds now pregnant influencers are promoting it - and it has rubbed some experts up the wrong way. Alanah Eriksen asks if the costly practice is worth doing?
The pregnant influencer looks down at the product, her husband cradling her burgeoning belly.
Clad in crisp white pants with immaculate makeup and slicked back hair, she holds a small white box. Inside it, a kit to collect precious blood from her unborn child s umbilical cord.
Apr 9, 2021
But Australian study found higher risk for other adverse outcomes
Late-stage decreased fetal movement (DFM) was not linked with an increased risk of stillbirth, according to researchers in Australia, but DFM at their institution is heavily managed, and DFM was associated with other negative outcomes.
At the country’s largest maternal hospital, all women presenting with DFM after 28 weeks and 0 days gestation receive electronic fetal heart rate monitoring and a blood test to detect fetomaternal hemorrhage, as well as consideration for ultrasonography to assess fetal growth and well-being, explained Sailesh Kumar, DPhil, Mater Research Institute at the University of Queensland in South Brisbane, and co-authors.
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Maternity is at crisis point, with a shortage of 200 midwives in hospitals nationwide. Kirsten Van Newtown started a petition for the government to start taking it seriously after her experience with a high risk pregnancy at Wellington hospital.
Year after year, babies are being born into a dangerously under-resourced maternity system. With hospital wards nationwide short 200 midwives and women having to fight for basic care, the minister previously in charge of the sector questions the political will to fix the problem. National Correspondent Michelle Duff investigates. Hours after Kelly gave birth by emergency c-section, she was ordered to get up and change her own maternity pad.