Research by academics at Western Sydney University has found that nursing undergrads who work in aged care while completing their studies are learning valuable skills and enter the profession ahead of their graduate peers. The research surveyed new graduate nurses ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety continues this week in Darwin and will look at aspects of care in residential, home and flexible aged care as well as issues those living in rural and remote communities face. ...

A nurse who suspected her father was being mistreated in an aged care home caught a care worker roughly handling him a number of times, including smothering him with a cloth. Aged care provider Japara failed to act when Noleen ...

New data shows that pharmaceutical companies are increasingly targeting non-prescribing health professionals, such as nurses, with financial gifts. Payments to doctors by pharmaceutical companies is commonplace and widely accepted, and there is currently no governmental regulation surrounding these types of ...

Michelle Roach is a radiation oncology clinical nurse consultant, the first NSW has ever had. And she is passionate about 'rad-onc'. She is passionate about, it seems, everything. “I’m a pain in the arse,” is how she describes it. I ...

Uganda has announced two more cases of Ebola - confirmation of the first spread of a deadly outbreak beyond the borders of Democratic Republic of Congo. The Ugandan cases showed the epidemic was entering a "truly frightening" phase and was ...