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Malnutrition is a growing issue in the rehabilitation setting, writes Michelle Miller, Elisabeth Isenring and Angela Vivanti. High rates of nutritional risk have long been documented in acute care settings and, more recently, across rehabilitation settings. People are commonly admitted ...

Roxon shelves $450m diabetes care plan. The federal government has shelved its controversial diabetes reform plan that was meant to allow patients to sign up with a "home" GP practice for continuing care from mid-2012. Just four months ago, Health ...

End of program would result in unnecessary deaths, experts say. A screening program which has prompted thousands of Australians to get early treatment for their bowel cancer is facing an uncertain future, with its funding due to run out. The ...

Almost $450 million in NHMRC research grants. Minister for Mental Health and Ageing Mark Butler has announced $447.5 million for medical research, though the National Health and Medical Research Council.  Butler made the announcement while opening two new research facilities ...

One in four cancer patients has anxiety disorder. Significant numbers of cancer patients experiencing anxiety post diagnosis are seeing their condition escalate to a clinical disorder because they are not being picked up early enough and referred for treatment. In ...

Up to 30,000 health graduates across Australia will soon be seeking registration. The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) is urging students due to graduate from health profession courses later in 2010 to apply for registration early, to avoid year-end ...

New rights for nurse practitioners have been welcomed, but will rural health teams survive? The fact that nurse practitioners now have access to the Medicare Benefits Scheme and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme mustn’t obscure that fact that there is a serious ...

Nurses join aged care workforce from new graduate program. The first cohort of registered nurses have successfully completed Bupa Care’s new graduate nursing program in aged care. The one year program, run in conjunction with The College of Nursing is ...

Victoria to get an extra 1700 nurses under Labor government pledge. Victorian Labor has promised to employ an extra 2800 doctors, nurses and health professionals if re-elected in a bold bid to take the upper hand on health. The new ...

Patients believe nurse practitioners provide more choice and better access to primary care, research found. Australians know the difference between being sick and needing a doctor and those "everyday health concerns" when a nurse practitioner would suffice, preliminary research shows. ...