One-on-one lifestyle advice for overweight pregnant women is cost-effective and highly beneficial to mothers and their babies, research has shown. Researchers at the University of Adelaide’s Robinson Research Institute – led by professor Jodie Dodd – conducted an economic evaluation along with a randomised trial ...
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Nurses seeking post-election clarity from Baird
The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association has called on the newly re-elected Baird Government to quarantine the state’s health system from what it described as a “pattern of privatisation” emerging within the sector. In a statement issued on Monday, NSWNMA ...
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Bandage in works detects pressure ulcers
Researchers from the US are developing a new type of bandage that uses electrical currents to detect early tissue damage from pressure ulcers before the human eye can. “What we're detecting is a change in the way electricity flows that ...
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Aussies courting chronic disease
About two-thirds of Australians have health issues caused by risk factors that are "modifiable", such as exercise, diet and smoking, a new report shows. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report, which was released on Wednesday, uses data from ...
More »Tell me how it hurts: talking to patients in pain
Diagnostic tools for acute pain are often difficult for health professionals to interpret and apply, and managing chronic pain holds its own challenges. This was the focus of the presentation from the University of Queensland’s PainLang at the Australian Pain ...
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Most don’t ask advice before crushing pills
Most people who modify medication dosage forms, potentially reducing their effectiveness, do so without seeking advice from healthcare professionals, a recent study has found. About 44 per cent of the 369 respondents in the study did not think there would ...
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