When a member of a family is diagnosed with cancer the impacts on a family can be dramatic but is it necessarily all "doom and gloom"?

In a strategic move expected to have significant positive impacts on long term health outcomes of communities in the central and far western regions, Vice-Chancellor and President Ian Goulter yesterday announced a $6 million expansion of the University’s health education programs at CSU in Orange.

A leading Canadian paramedic educator has joined the teaching staff of the pre-hospital care programs of the School of Biomedical Sciences at CSU in Bathurst.

CSU today announced that it has asked the Federal Government for more than $2 million in funding to establish a major Regional Inter-Professional Clinical Simulation Centre for CSU at Bathurst. The application was made under the Capital Development Pool Program administered by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

Two lecturers at CSU argue that the recent suggestion that 'extreme' cases of obese children should be taken from their families for therapeutic intervention is fraught with problems for the child, the family and ultimately for health professionals and authorities.

Charles Sturt University Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ross Chambers, welcomed the Federal Minister for Health and Ageing, The Hon. Nicola Roxon, MP, to the Wagga Wagga Campus yesterday, Wednesday 21 January.

Charles Sturt University Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ross Chambers, has welcomed the announcement by Federal Minister for Health and Ageing, The Hon. Nicola Roxon, MP, of $2.5 million in new scholarships to enable allied health students to undertake clinical placements in rural or remote communities during their degrees.

CSU has received a record number of applications for distance education study in its paramedic course which leads to a career as a paramedic. Annual surveys have regularly rated paramedics as 'the most trusted profession'.

Charles Sturt University’s Institute for Land Water and Society will host a free public information evening on “Bird Flu-a local perspective” on Wednesday, May 3 from 6.30-8.30 pm in the Conference Room, Charles Sturt University, Orange.