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Coinciding with World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, the National Ageing Research Institute has called for elder abuse to be placed on the national agenda.  According to clinical associate professor at NARI Briony Dow, Australia should take elder abuse more seriously, ...

Middle aged women are more inclined to suffer depression from incontinence, said University of Adelaide research. In a study of the experiences of women with urinary incontinence, researcher Jodie Avery found that women with incontinence, aged 43-65, were more likely ...

Asthma deaths in Australia are linked with social and psychosocial issues, drug and alcohol use, and poor health literacy, said a study published in the British medical journal Open. Asthma Mortality in Australia in the 21st Century looked at asthma deaths ...

Recently named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for health visiting, professor Sarah Cowley may have retired from her position as adjunct professor of Nursing at Sydney’s UTS, but her work is far from finished.  Her leadership ...

Mary Casey reveals the benefits of education in a simulated environment. Simulated training is an educational concept that all nursing and allied health colleges should be offering students. Teaching multiple objectives in a ‘real life’ environment can grow confidence, encourage ...

At a time when birth rates are falling, nurses are at the vanguard of fertility and conception health treatment.  Since 1976, Australia’s total fertility rate has been below replacement level – the average number of babies born to each woman ...

Around 4000 nurses came to Melbourne for the ICN 25th Quadrennial Congress. The six-day event started on Saturday 18 May with an opening ceremony that included a parade of nations, presentation of awards and entertainment from Deborah Cheetham. The theme ...

Should the recent spate of violence towards nurses in Victoria and other states raise the alarm on national hospital safety?  In Victoria, nurses have once again called on the government to action the recommendations set down by the 2005 Victorian ...

The government has chosen to take the “responsible course” to delay the return to surplus in order to “support jobs and growth in an uncertain world”.  Treasurer Wayne Swan made these announcements when delivering the federal government’s election budget – ...

We conclude this two-part article on a matter of serious ethical relativism. By Scott Trueman This second article concerns the contentious and emotive issue of harvesting sperm from deceased males and then using the same to bring about the birth ...