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- Ultrasound scan
Ultrasound is a scan used to study internal body structures.
- Understanding health insurance
There are many health insurance providers on the market that offer a wide variety of healthcare plans.
- Understanding Medicare
Medicare is Australia’s national public health insurance, providing free or subsidised healthcare to all Australians and most permanent residents.
- Undescended testicles
Undescended testicles means that one or both testicles are missing from the scrotum.
- Unpaid and professional carers
The term ‘carer’ can refer to paid and unpaid, professional and ‘lay’ carers.
- Urban flash floods - FAQs
Urban flash flooding can happen quickly and without warning. Heavy rain causes runoff to collect in dips, car parks and roads, and there is a risk of contamination, injury and disease.
- Urgent treatment for mental illness
Telephone helplines such as Lifeline (call 13 11 14) offer immediate mental health support and counselling 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you are in immediate danger, call triple zero (000) for emergency services.
- Urinary catheterisation
A urinary catheter can give a person control over their bladder and keeps them dry.
- Urinary system
Most waste products are removed from the body by the urinary system.
- Urinary system birth defects
Common birth defects of the urinary system include hypospadias, obstructive defects of the renal pelvis and renal agenesis.