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Robots will guide the hands of stroke survivors to retrain the brain in a new research project that aims to help people overcome spatial neglect. The neuropsychological condition often occurs after damage to the right hemisphere of the brain and ...

The vast majority of women who plan to give birth in water experience an uncomplicated vaginal birth, though many who wish to birth in water do not achieve their aim. Those are some of the key findings of a study, ...

Child poisonings due to accidental exposure to medicines are down but there has been an increasing number of non-urgent presentations to emergency departments. Recent research from the University of Sydney found that hospital admissions for child poisonings from medicines have ...

Booting up a videogame in class or at home might help students hone nursing skills, a new study suggests. A group of Australian researchers looked at the ways videogame-based learning links to the development of decision-making, motivation and other benefits. ...

When it comes to indicating melanoma risk, the eyes have it. University of Queensland researchers have found that freckles and moles appearing on the iris were an effective predictor of the risk of melanoma and complemented traditional factors. Dermatology Research Centre’s ...

Nurses who have children and experience shiftwork may feel as though they’re not living up to society’s expectations of motherhood, a new study suggests. RN Dr Annabel Matheson explored the implications of working shiftwork while caring for children to identify ...

Australians are stockpiling unused medicines and it could cause harm, a recent survey has found. Sixty per cent of respondents said they had unwanted medicines in their household. Most were keeping them just in case they were needed again. Of ...

Just under half of nurses have been a target of bullying or rude behaviour in their workplace, but those with managers who demonstrate authentic leadership are less likely to encounter the problem. Those were some of the key findings of ...

A number of human factors influence the way managers within organisations address patient safety concerns. One is wilful blindness. The phenomenon of wilful blindness has been described by Heffernan (2011, p. 3) as “shirking” the “opportunity for knowledge, and a ...

Wound experts have taken umbrage with the new edition of the National Safety and Quality Health Care Standards. The peak body for wound care and management, Wounds Australia, voiced its concerns that the new set of standards will lead to ...