Now cancer sufferers face shortage of specialists

CANCER patients are going without treatment or receiving suboptimal treatment because of a shortage of medical oncologists that is likely to get worse, the first study into Australia's medical oncology workforce has found.

Students forced to wait months for counselling

VULNERABLE children with depression, behavioural problems and autism are waiting months to see psychologists and speech therapists following the state government's overhaul of school support systems.

Popular Types of Massage Therapy

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Home therapists keep it flexible

The Australian Bureau of Statistics says that 432,700 people, or 2.2 per cent of the population, have an acquired brain injury, some activity limitation or participation restriction.

Cancer case may be linked to overseas stem cell therapy

EXPERTS fear a man with leukaemia may be the first Australian "infected" with cancer from medical tourism, after treatment at a private overseas stem cell therapy centre.

Stem cell therapy warning

EXPERTS fear that a Victorian man with leukaemia may be the first Australian "infected" with cancer after treatment at a private overseas stem cell therapy centre.

Drawing on art to heal a heart

Art programs that provide specialist support to families with children who are dealing with dying and death are in place throughout Victoria's southern metropolitan region.

Demands for therapy shrink in hard times

New York has the highest concentration of psychiatrists and psychotherapists in the world. Weekly therapy sessions are routine, indicative of the city's place at the heart of capitalism and individualism, with a dose of Woody Allen neuroticism.

E-therapy moves in on the shrink's couch

INTERNET therapy programs for depression and anxiety can be twice as effective as seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist in person, studies show.

Out of the shadows

A new exhibition is shedding light on the experience of mental illness, writes Meg Mundell.

Magnets To Take The Shock From Therapy

THE controversial psychiatric practice of electric shock therapy to treat depression could soon be replaced by magnetic technology with no side effects.

A Healthy Alternative

MIM BEIM demystifies complementary medicine.

Smell Of Success

AROMATIC medicine is a relatively new area of study in Australia. Elise Scully, aromatherapy teacher at Health Arts College in Box Hill, discarded her corporate suit for a career in natural therapies in the early '90s.