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This summer Australia has endured record breaking temperatures and the hottest December on record, with the 27th of December becoming the hottest nationally recorded mean maximum at 40.19C. At the time of writing, the temperature across all of South Australia ...

As we head into the Australia day long weekend, the AMNF has followed the lead of the AMA and many prominent politicians and clinical experts to call for pill testing at Australian music festivals. Federal secretary Annie Butler said: “Supported ...

It is time to think of cancer as a chronic disease and use cancer treatment as something that manages the disease, rather than eradicate it all together. These ideas are part of a new theory put forward by Professor Paul ...

There are nearly 400,000 nurses registered here in Australia and all of them can trace their nursing lineage back to Florence Nightingale. That is one of the fascinating tales from the new book Nurses of Australia: The Illustrated Story by ...

Leave requests and unexpected absences in health facilities are often difficult to cover when the casual pool of staff are in short supply. This scenario is all too real for rural and remote health services around Australia and the weight ...

From 1 July, the NIP Schedule at 12 months of age has changed 1-4 To ensure the NIP Schedule is aligned with changes in disease patterns, an update has been made to the recommendations on the use of pneumococcal and meningococcal ...

In the emergency department, the ‘bat phone’ is reserved for urgent referrals of incoming patients. One busy afternoon, the bat phone rang to advise that a four-year-old boy had fallen off a motorbike.* He'd ridden over a river bank and ...

What is your name, where are you based? My name is Nikia Goldsmith from Metro North Hospital and Health Service in Brisbane’s north. What hospital do you work at and what do you do there? I work at Caboolture Hospital, ...

From 1 July, the NIP Schedule at 12 months of age is changing1–4 To ensure the NIP Schedule is aligned with changes in disease patterns, an update has been made to the recommendations on the use of pneumococcal and meningococcal ...

Australia’s approach to the mental health care sector still has a way to go, but there has been – and continues to be – some positive shifts and trends.  You may be surprised by how much research goes into the ...