In 2004, chief executive Kim Macgowan was chatting with The District Nurses team and came across a student nurse who was sobbing. The nurse felt she had just made the last visit to one of the service’s clients. The man ...

According to Diabetes Australia 100,000 Australians have developed diabetes in the past year, so Curtin University’s new MOOC Life with Diabetes will be useful in educating those with diabetes as well as carers and family members. The MOOC has five modules which ...

Having a positive attitude can improve outcomes for those living with chronic illness, a research review has found. Researchers at Curtin University have studied the power of positive and negative thoughts on people living with cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. ...

Australia’s top pain medicine body is urging patients to start considering alternative pain relief to codeine before the ban on over-the-counter sales of the drug early next year. Dr Chris Hayes, Dean of the Faculty of Pain Medicine (FPM), says ...

Evidence-based occupational therapy, exercise and carer support will be the key focuses of a new project that aims to improve post-diagnosis care for people with mild to moderate symptoms of dementia. Dr Kate Laver, from the Aged and Extended Care ...

With a NSW Health report confirming that 2017 is already its worst year for flu, people are being warned that due to different strains circulating the country there’s a chance they could get a second dose. The NSW Health report confirms 35,727 ...

To Canada where new research into organ tissue repair has been published… Broken hearts can be mended using an injectable tissue repair patch smaller than a postage stamp, research shows. The AngioChip consists of a biodegradable scaffold seeded with lab-grown ...

The number of Australians affected by hearing loss is expected to soar within the next 50 years at great cost to the economy. Hearing Care Industry Australia has launched a report, developed by Deloitte Access Economics, on the social and ...