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All pregnant women should be tested for vitamin D deficiency and those found to be deficient should be treated, experts have warned. Pregnant women with low levels of vitamin D are more likely to develop gestational diabetes, and, their babies ...

Key stakeholders are being called upon to take action on antimicrobial resistance by reducing the inappropriate use of antibiotics. A major cause of antibiotic resistance, a growing issue in Australia and internationally, is the unnecessary and inappropriate use of antibiotics ...

Experts call for new disease control centre for Australia. A new disease control agency is needed in Australia to combat rapidly evolving infectious diseases in future, health experts say. Local and overseas public health experts are converging on Canberra today ...

Community nurses would benefit from forming a strong united face, writes Sandra Lucas. The health care system of Australia, as in many other countries, is moving out of large acute care hospitals and into the community. This is due to ...

Off and on for the past five years the former NZ chief nurse has been island-hopping the Pacific helping nations create mental health policies and services. Fiona Cassie reports. 'Give a man a fish; feed him for a day. Teach ...

Public health and private industry can work together to improve outcomes for mental health services, writes Kaye Knight and Tim Lenten. Delivering and achieving consistent education outcomes can be a challenge when mental health clinicians are spread geographically. A collaborative ...

Without improved communication between health professionals, mental health outcomes will remain less than perfect. Annie May reports. Sometimes homeless, at times experiencing problems with drugs or alcohol or simply suffering a mental health episode - people with a mental illness ...

A new survey has found people are reluctant to be vaccinated against the flu. New findings released last month by the Influenza Specialist Group have led experts to call upon nurses to challenge what they believe is risky behaviour of ...

Risk statistics can be used persuasively to present health interventions in different lights, say researchers. Health professionals and consumers may change their choices when the same risks and risk reductions are presented using alternative statistical formats, a new study has ...

A Senate inquiry will investigate the competence and resourcing of AHPRA. In two months time almost every nurse and midwife in Australia will be required to renew their registration if they want to be able to continue practicing. But unless ...