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Some developing countries are seeing a rise in breast cancer of more than 7.5 per cent per year - a rate that is more than twice the global rate. A new report has found that while women in high-income countries ...

Queensland has announced a four-year public awareness campaign to tackle the stigma associated with mental illness. Discrimination against mentally ill people is a profound human rights issue, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said. To tackle the issue, Bligh announced an $8.5 ...

Smaller Victorian hospitals try to take load from large institutions. By Linda Belardi Victorian emergency departments are delivering an increasing number of babies due to a shortage of labour ward beds, according to an auditor-general's report. The state's baby boom ...

Stanford University analysis shows the number of abortions in Africa doubled despite the US cutting funding for abortion counselling.   The number of abortions has increased in African countries where the US heavily cut funding to NGOs providing or counselling ...

Opposition calls for decision to be reversed at senate estimates hearing. By Lisa Martin The Australian Bureau of Statistics "missed an opportunity" by excluding Aboriginal children from voluntary medical tests in the national health survey, a Senate hearing has been ...

New clinical informatics roles for nurses have the potential to transform IT in healthcare, writes Linda Belardi. As Victoria's first formally appointed Chief Clinical Information Officer, Jenny O'Brien says she's part of an emerging hybrid of clinical leaders straddling the ...

A nurse-led study has profoundly influenced our understanding not only of stroke care but how to change clinicians' behaviour. Acute stroke patients who receive three clinical protocols to manage fever, sugar and swallowing are 16 per cent more likely to ...

Australia's first standalone nurse practitioner-led clinic was launched in Brisbane last month. Linda Belardi speaks to the woman at the helm of the model. "It's been a pretty hectic month," says Julie Farrelley, lead nurse practitioner at the Brisbane-based SmartClinics, ...

Paul Osborne reports on the highlights from last month's tax forum in Canberra. The federal government will set up a business tax review, increase the personal tax-free threshold and work with the states to make their revenue raising systems more ...

Secret documents reveal a proposal by Ballieu government to cut $100 million from nursing budget. The Victorian Government has considered a plan to cut the Victorian nursing budget by more than $100 million and replace highly qualified nurses with less ...