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Seminar to reduce world’s highest rate of rheumatic heart disease in children
24 Jul 2014Download Media Release Thursday 24 July 2014 RHDAustralia will host a free seminar in Cairns tonight as part of Australia’s Rheumatic... Read on
RHDAustralia Seminar Series - Adelaide
01 Jul 2014Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease are responsible for the largest disparity in cardiovascular disease death rates between... Read on
SBS story | Bid to cut rheumatic heart disease rates
13 May 20149 May 2014 | SBS Radio (Transcript from World News Radio | Click on website to listen to the audio) Efforts are being made in Australia to... Read on
Heads come together to control rheumatic heart disease
05 May 2014Monday 5 May 2014 The Third Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Forum, to be held tonight in Melbourne during the World Congress of Cardiology... Read on
Media Alert: Forum to forge path to end rheumatic heart disease
01 May 2014Thursday, 1 May 2014 Two hundred international leading experts and advocates for rheumatic heart disease (RHD) will converge at the Third... Read on
Test reveals widespread heart disease among children
29 Apr 2014Written by Rogini Moorthi AN INVESTIGATION into the prevalence of rheumatic heart disease in Fiji using echocardiography – ultrasound of... Read on
Rheumatic heart disease program improving Aboriginal health
03 Apr 2014Media Release by Government of South Australia 24 March 2014 More than 150 Aboriginal South Australians are benefitting from a statewide... Read on
Interruption to supply of Bicillin LA
13 Mar 2014Pfizer advises of an interruption to the supply of Bicillin LA® benzathine benzylpenicillin 900mg /2.3mL Pre-Filled Syringe [Pfizer Product... Read on
New apps project for rheumatic heart disease
20 Feb 2014RHD Australia has embarked on a project to develop two apps for smart phones to prevent and manage acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and... Read on
Is there a medical anthropology of rheumatic heart disease? By Dr Suzanne Belton
30 Jan 2014A report presented at the RHD Australia Conference 2013: Practice and Culture by Dr Suzanne Belton of the Menzies School of Health Research... Read on
World Congress of Cardiology | 4-7 May 2014 | Melbourne
30 Jan 2014Do you have your ticket yet? Register today for the World Cardiology Congress, held in Melbourne, 4–7 May. With a specific Indigenous... Read on
Photos and presentations from RHD Australia Conference 2013
17 Dec 2013In November 2013, the RHD Australia Conference 2013: Practice and Culture was held in Darwin to bring together experienced people working... Read on