Pete Evans' controversial paleo diet book for babies has been dumped by its Australian publisher. Bubba Yum Yum: The Paleo Way, which is co-authored by My Kitchen Rules judge Evans, nutritionist Helen Padarin and blogger Charlotte Carr, was howled down ...
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Australian nurse researcher named Hall of Famer
This July, an Australian will be travelling to Puerto Rico to be inducted into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. Professor Wendy Chaboyer from the Centre for Health Practice Innovation, a part of Griffith University's Menzies Health Institute Queensland, ...
More »NHMRC: no evidence homeopathy works
There is no evidence that homeopathy is effective in treating health conditions, a review has found. The National Health and Medical Research Council found the body of evidence doesn't support the case that homeopathy works better than placebo, or causes ...
More »Baby gastroenteritis cases down 75% since rotavirus vaccine
Australia's free childhood vaccination program for rotavirus has dramatically cut the illness in young children. The vaccine was introduced into the national immunisation program in 2007, with the aim of decreasing the social and economic burden of rotavirus. The program ...
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Australia remains a long way from providing everyone with access to quality end-of-life care, the nation’s peak palliative care group states. “We remain a very long way from achieving our goals,” Palliative Care Australia chief executive Liz Callaghan said. The ...
More »NSW hospital waits shrink despite more patients
NSW hospital waiting times have dropped despite more patients, new data shows. About 636,000 people were admitted to emergency departments between October and December, up 3 per cent on the same period a year earlier, the Bureau of Health Information stated. ...
More »More male nurses in the works
More males are enrolling in nursing courses, a New South Wales tertiary education provider has stated. Glenys Wensor, head teacher of nursing at the Northern Sydney Institute said, "We've seen a steady increase in men wanting to take up the occupation." Last year, the ...
More »Bursts of anger, anxiety episodes raise heart attack risk
The risk of a heart attack is 8.5 times higher in the two hours following a burst of intense anger and 9.5 times higher in the two hours after an anxiety episode, research has revealed. “The triggers for [the] bursts of ...
More »Release child detainees: nurse leaders
Nurse groups have labelled the Australian Human Rights Commission’s landmark Forgotten Children report, the clearest evidence yet that the Australian government must rethink its policies regarding the detention of children in immigration facilities. In the wake of the report – ...
More »Preventing infections by looking abroad
A Queensland University of Technology researcher has shed light on the benefits other countries have seen from introducing a national program to monitor health-care associated (HAI) infection rates. PhD researcher Philip Russo said National HAI surveillance programs are associated with ...
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