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The work prostate cancer specialist nurses do in Australia will be bolstered by just under $6 million in funding from the Federal Government. The Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) will use the renewal of funding to secure the positions ...

People with Parkinson’s disease will lend their voices to a new research project that aims to better the lives of those living with the condition. The 6-month project will evaluate whether singing can help improve quality of life, wellbeing and ...

Whose hands do the medical goods Australians use pass through? This question was at the heart of a new Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) report, conducted in conjunction with The Australia Institute, which held there are high-levels of exploitation ...

Peak bodies in healthcare have raised concerns over the capacity of rural and remote services to meet workforce demand following the government’s announcement that it will axe 457 visas. The calls follow Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s announcement via a Facebook ...

Patients who receive a phone call from a nurse following discharge are less likely to end up back in hospital within 28 days than those who don’t. This was one of the key findings of research, conducted by not-for-profit health ...

A Mount Isa midwife, a community health nurse from Grisborne and the team behind a dementia eHealth program have been named finalists in the 2017 HESTA Australian Nursing & Midwifery Awards. The awards recognise graduates, individuals and teams for their ...

Facial recognition technology might be something you would expect to see while watching a blockbuster movie or crime show, but for staff at Epworth Freemasons in Melbourne, it was part of the patient-identification process. Epworth HealthCare trialed the use of ...

Despite media and political noise surrounding vaccine-hesitant parents, non-immunised children form a very small proportion of under-vaccinated Australians, and a shift of perspective is urgently required. This is the call from Dr Rob Menzies, senior Lecturer at the University of ...

The experts behind a Victorian telemedicine program that delivers acute stroke care to regional Victoria want the intervention to go national. Professor Christopher Bladin, program lead of the Victorian Stroke Telemedicine (VST) project at The Florey Institute of Neuroscience & ...

Video games are often in the news for negative reasons but one academic has urged health professionals to be open to the potential improvements the technology can make to the lives of people in their care. Stuart Smith, former USC ...