Prosthetics

Prostheses are designed to replace a missing part of the body or to make a part of the body work better.

Follow the links below to find information about prosthetics.

Updated September 2008

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Title:	Children with hearing loss
Publisher:	Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:	There are many causes of temporary hearing problems, but some children can have permanent hearing loss. In many cases, the cause of a hearing loss is not known.
Date:	May 2009

Title:	Arthritis and surgery: knee replacement
Publisher:	myDr
Description:	Find out when a knee replacement may be necessary and what the procedure involves.
Date:	Apr 2009

Title:	Erectile dysfunction treatments
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	A range of treatments is available for erectile dysfunction (ED), or impotence. These include oral medications (such as Viagra, Cialis or Levitra), injections into the penis, vacuum devices, counselling or implants (penile prosthesis). Ongoing problems may have a medical cause that needs specific treatment and should be investigated by a doctor.
Date:	Jan 2009

Title:	Media release. Reimbursements now available for breast prostheses
Publisher:	Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:	Australian women who have had a mastectomy as a result of breast cancer will be reimbursed for the cost of breast prostheses up to $400.
Date:	Dec 2008

Title:	Media release. Rudd Government improves help for women with breast cancer
Publisher:	Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:	The Rudd Government is investing $43 million to support women with breast cancer - delivering new breast cancer nurses to rural and regional areas and providing a subsidy of up to $400 for breast prostheses through Medicare Australia.
Date:	Sep 2008

Title:	Breast reconstruction and mastectomy
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Breast cancer treatment may include a full or part mastectomy. Breast reconstruction after a mastectomy may be chosen by some women. A nipple reconstruction is best performed at least three months after breast reconstruction surgery. Breast and nipple reconstruction may use breast implants or skin
Date:	Aug 2008

Title:	Prostheses and Devices Committee (PDC)
Publisher:	Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
Description:	The Prostheses and Devices Committee (PDC) was established by the Minister for Health and Ageing on 14 July 2004.
Date:	Jul 2008

Title:	Knee replacement surgery
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Knee replacement surgery is a technique that removes a diseased knee joint and replaces it with an artificial joint (prosthesis). The most common reason for this operation is severe osteoarthritis. Knee replacement surgery is known as 'total knee arthroplasty'.
Date:	May 2008

Title:	Implementing private health reforms: Consumers have a say - Discussion session with the Health Consumers' Council WA - Perth, April 2008
Publisher:	Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:	CHF and the Health Consumers Council WA held a free consumer discussion session on consumer issues to do with reforms to private health insurance on Wednesday 30 April 2008 in Perth, Western Australia.
Date:	Apr 2008

Title:	Ears - hearing problems
Publisher:	Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:	Hearing well helps us to learn how to speak, to understand, to communicate with others and to enjoy listening to the sounds that we like to hear.
Date:	Mar 2008

Title:	Implementing private health reforms: Consumers have a say - Discussion session with Heart Support Australia, Ipswich and West Moreton Branch - Ipswich, Qld, March 2008
Publisher:	Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:	CHF and Heart Support Australia, Ipswich and West Moreton Branch, held a free consumer discussion session on prostheses and informed financial consent arrangements under private health insurance on Tuesday 4 March 2008 in Ipswich, Queensland.
Date:	Mar 2008

Title:	New health technologies and medical devices consumer representatives workshop report
Publisher:	Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:	CHF held this workshop for consumer representatives and interested members to increase awareness of and consider issues around approval, funding and monitoring processes of new technologies such as medical devices and prostheses.
Date:	Dec 2007

Title:	Information paper: New technologies, medical devices and prostheses
Publisher:	Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:	As part of CHF work on health care for people with chronic conditions, CHF is looking at how new technologies, medical devices and prostheses are approved for marketing, funded and monitored in use in Australia.
Date:	Nov 2007

Title:	Evidence v access - joint replacement registry success
Publisher:	Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:	The National Joint Replacement Registry provides the evidence clinicians need to make informed decisions that have led to a better revision rate that has saved consumers - and the health care system - pain, time and money.
Date:	Oct 2007

Title:	Response to preliminary conclusions of the Prostheses Listing Arrangements Review
Publisher:	Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:	CHF response to the preliminary conclusions of the Chair of the Prostheses List Review about private health insurance cover for medical devices used during surgery.
Date:	Sep 2007

Title:	Submission to the Prostheses List Review
Publisher:	Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:	CHF calls on the Prostheses List Review to ensure that data to demonstrate evidence-based selection of implantable devices by surgeons, with no gap payments for consumers, is collected, monitored and publicly available.
Date:	Aug 2007

Title:	Interventions for preventing posterior capsule opacification
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	Posterior capsule opacification (PCO) is the most common long-term complication after cataract surgery with implantation of an intraocular lens (IOL). It can be treated by cutting a hole in the posterior lens capsule with an Nd:YAG laser (Neodymium:YAG ...
Date:	Feb 2007

Title:	Surgical interventions for age-related cataract
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	Cataract is a major cause of global blindness, accounting for 50% to 80% in developing countries. The number of people blind from cataract is expected to rise due to the increase in life expectancy. Aging causes changes in the lens protein leading to op...
Date:	Aug 2006

Title:	Impotence treatments
Publisher:	myDr
Description:	Learn about the methods now available to treat impotence (erectile dysfunction), a very common condition.
Date:	Jul 2006

Title:	Arthritis and surgery: hip replacement
Publisher:	myDr
Description:	Find out how a hip replacement can help people with arthritis.
Date:	Jul 2006

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