Aged-care residents are set to be among the “tens of thousands” of beneficiaries of a new partnership between the Royal District Nursing Service and the Maggie Beer Foundation aimed at delivering healthy food messages. In the deal, announced this week, the RDNS ...

Griffith University professor of nursing Claire Rickard has become the first nurse ever to be made a fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.  Rickard is director of the Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research (AVATAR), a research ...

The ANMF has added to recent pressure on Health and Aged Care Minister Sussan Ley to address pay and staffing issues in the sector, urging the government to devise a workforce strategy in order to guarantee quality care for aging ...

Canberra nurse Bill Bailey has been nominated Mental Health Nurse of the Year by the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN). Established by the ACMHN in 2008, the Mental Health Nurse of the Year award promotes the importance of ...

An efficient reminder system might be pivotal to improving the low pneumococcal vaccination rates among Australians 65 and over. A survey by the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA) revealed that while many general practices do have a vaccination reminder ...

Anna Shepherd, chief executive of Regal Home Health, has been named one of this year’s winners in the 100 Women of Influence Awards. Shepherd has 32 years of experience in the community nursing and primary healthcare industry. She holds an honorary ...

A Deakin University researcher is looking to lift the taboo on the sexual problems that are often an unspoken side effect for people living with cardiovascular disease. The silent treatment on this issue is a major problem, considering that up to ...

Eating disorders are common in patients with certain types of dementia. The underlying reason for this has long been unclear but freshly published Australian research might just shed new light on this phenomenon. “We know from studies that eating changes ...

The federal government's proposed review of the Medicare Benefits Schedule met with sharp objections from the Australian Medical Association this week. AMA president professor Brian Owler did not spare words in response to Health Minister Sussan Ley’s announcement, calling it ...

Australian researchers have discovered an underlying reason why breast is best. They found mixing unpasteurised breastmilk with certain compounds in the saliva of newborn infants had an antibacterial effect. The interaction was selectively antibacterial, capable of killing harmful entities such ...