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In an Australian first, a new app has been developed to help people adjust to life with a cochlear implant. The game-based Hearoes app is a collaboration between audiologists at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) and Brisbane-based app creator ...

An aged care provider should have been pushed out of the industry well before its Gold Coast retirement home's unprecedented abrupt closure, a royal commission barrister says. The federal health department should have revoked approval for People Care in 2017, ...

The 1850s was a period of immense change in Melbourne. The rush for gold was frantic and in the period between 1850 and 1860 half a million people descend on the area, which only officially came to be known as Melbourne ...

Amelia Morris and countless other mentally ill Victorians are waiting to see how the state's royal commission will fix a broken system. Public hearings for the inquiry into mental health care in Victoria wrap up on Friday, following four weeks ...

Australia and Scotland have longstanding cultural links and the Scots have given Australia many important historical figures. Sir George Hoist Reid for example, was the fourth prime minister of Australia. Peter Dodds McCormick, the composer of the national anthem 'Advance ...

A hospital in Sydney’s west has launched a scheme aimed at reducing the stress and pain of osteoarthritis. Described as a ‘one-stop shop’, the Osteoarthritis Chronic Care Program (OACCP) at Auburn Hospital allows patients to see a range of different ...

The health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people starts at birth. The target to halve the gap in child mortality rates is not on track. In fact, it has widened to 2.4 times higher for Indigenous children. Preterm births are ...

The NSW branch of the Hospital Services Union today unanimously voted to take industrial action across all NSW hospitals over concern for health workers' safety. At the annual delegates conference, the vote was carried unanimously by the 500 members in ...

Australia is a country that likes a drink. Recently deceased former prime minister Bob Hawke was lauded for his larrikin persona and prowess at the bar. And, like many other countries, our national holidays often centre around getting on the ...

The first time Evan Ulbricht went to China he was 17 years old and it was a big trip. He went with his church to help out on medical, educational and agricultural projects and came back having met his future ...