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Fionna Cassie travels to post-quake Christchurch and finds there are invaluable infection control lessons to be learnt by those working in aged care following large scale disasters. Infection control nurse Alison Carter is in a unique and authoritative position to ...

Catheter-related blood stream infections and life-threatening hospital acquired infections present a challenge for healthcare professionals across the world, but with the right strategies they are also the most preventable. Annie May reports. Nurses and other health professionals need to move ...

More effective collaboration between sectors of health services and professionals are the key to improving quality and safety of discharge care of remote NT mothers and their newborns. By Annie May. Discharge practices for mothers and newborns from remote areas ...

NSW Health Minister says health restructure will improve local decision-making. A middle layer of bureaucracy at the NSW Health Department will be abolished under a restructure that will scrap 300 positions, and savings of $80 million directed to frontline services. ...

Nurses avoid reporting frequent workplace violence to police, parliamentary inquiry told. Nurses at Victorian hospitals are gagged from speaking out against violence perpetrated against them at work and fear management, a state parliamentary inquiry has heard. Dandenong Hospital emergency department ...

NSW researchers have confirmed that obesity is in part a brain disorder and psychological counselling may also be needed to tackle the disease. Australian Scientists believe giving obese people the same psychological counselling as those with anorexia nervosa could help ...

Women have been overlooked in suicide prevention programs, despite higher rates of attempted suicide, says advocacy group. Australian women are far more likely to attempt suicide than men but the violent methods men use to take their own lives means ...

Up to 60 per cent of heart disease patients do not take their medication dramatically increasing their risk of another heart attack, new research shows. Cheap medicines recommended for cardiovascular disease patients are being underused across the world despite their ...

Declining use of HRT has contributed to a drop in mammogram checks for breast cancer, study shows. Menopausal women who stop using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are likely to start skipping mammogram checks for breast cancer, a study suggests. Startling ...

The Federal Government has announced the inaugural chair of the National Health Performance Authority as it advances its health reforms. Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Minister for Health and Ageing Nicola Roxon have announced the appointments of the inaugural chairs ...