Departmental
This section of the website contains Departmental media releases from January 2002 to December 2002.
Date: 6/12/2002
Title: A national effort to secure necessary blood products
Description:
The Federal Department of Health and Ageing is calling for expressions of interest from suitably qualified companies that can secure and provide a guaranteed supply of defined blood products.
Date: 20/11/2002
Title: Report shows increasing rates of participation under Government's National Cervical Screening Program
Description:
Increased rates of screening have resulted in fewer Australian women dying of cervical cancer, according to a new report released today by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.
Date: 2/10/2002
Title: Australia set to buy smallpox vaccine for national emergency medicines stockpile
Description:
Arrangements by the Federal Health Department for the purchase of an initial shipment of 50,000 doses of smallpox vaccine are well advanced, the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer Professor Richard Smallwood, announced today.
Date: 2/10/2002
Title: Vaccines continue to be extremely low risk for vCJD medicines stockpile
Description:
The risk of contracting vCJD, the human form of mad cow disease, through vaccines continues to be remote and extremely low, Professor Richard Smallwood, Australia's Chief Medical Officer, said today.
Date: 24/2/2002
Title: Sale of Croydon Nursing Home
Description:
The Department of Health and Ageing has approved the transfer of 30 allocated beds at Croydon Nursing Home to a new owner.
