A practising trauma nurse and researcher has won Nurse of the Year in Research and Innovation at the 2015 NSW Health Excellence in Nursing and Midwifery Awards. Associate professor Kate Curtis, from the University of Sydney, was recognised for her ...
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Psychotropic medicine use high in the community
Psychotropic medicine use is high in people living with dementia in the community, and often not in line with therapeutic guidelines. This was one of the key findings from a project that reviewed the medication records of people with cognitive ...
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Nurses, midwives carrying heavy symptom burden
NSW nurses and midwives have reported a host of health symptoms and diseases in a recent survey, although more than half rated their current health as very good or excellent. Among the 5000 workers surveyed in the study from the University ...
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A team of international researchers have re-examined a study that found a psychiatric drug a safe and effective treatment for depression in adolescents, with vastly different results. They found the drug paroxetine to be ineffective and associated with serious side ...
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Verhoeven calls for collaboration on funding
As Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull begins to reframe the government's approach to economic management, discussions on how Australia funds its health system must remain front and centre, the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association has said. AHHA's chief executive, Alison Verhoeven, ...
More »Face of opioid dependency changing
The number of people receiving treatment for dependence on painkillers codeine and oxycodone trebled between 2002 and 2011, a new study has found. Research from the University of New South Wales’ National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre NDARC also found that of ...
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