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It’s a staple of stir-fries and adds flavour to drinks, but a study has found ginger might also help people undergoing chemotherapy go about their daily lives. La Trobe University’s Dr Wolfgang Marx presented the trial's findings at this month’s ...

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has set out recommendations for minimum staffing levels and skills mix in a new report. The report was undertaken by the union in conjunction with the ANMF’s South Australian Branch, and researchers from ...

More than 100 Australians who have experienced an eating disorder have lent their voices to a new guide that aims to help healthcare professionals adopt a person-centred, recovery-oriented approach to care. There are almost a million Australians living with an ...

A Queensland nursing project focused on providing quicker and more personalised treatment to older patients has received a state award. The Geriatric Emergency Department Intervention (GEDI) won the customer focus category at the 2016 Queensland Premier’s Awards for Excellence. The ...

One of the greatest concerns Australians living with HIV have for the future surrounds the availability of ongoing assistance. This was a key finding from research by RDNS’s Melbourne-based HIV team, which supports 220 clients. The findings, published in the ...

A population health expert has called for limiting working hours so people can look after their health following the release of research that revealed 20 per cent of Australians don't have time to exercise and eat healthy food. The longitudinal study of ...

Between 2003 and 2013, nearly five deaths per 1000 employed Australian healthcare professionals were caused by drugs, new research has revealed. The Monash University study aimed to identify the best approaches to healthcare professionals’ drug use and their mental healthcare ...

Nurses in general practices across Australia will soon have access to training to help older people and those who are chronically ill discuss advance care planning (ACP) and palliative care. Through a federally funded program, called Advance, nurses will have ...

Nursing students from New South Wales gained insights into US approaches to opioid dependency after linking up with 900 University at Buffalo students via videoconferencing. Professor Cynthia Stuhlmiller from the School of Health at UB, said exercises such as the video link up help ...

Nurse-on-nurse bullying is a problem and one research project aims to find out how nurses think it should be tackled. Study lead Peter Hartin, from James Cook University, said: “The idea that bullying is a problem in nursing probably shocks ...