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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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, ...
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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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More dementia training is necessary in degree courses for undergraduate RNs, a dementia care leader has argued. General manager of residential services at dementia and aged-care specialist HammondCare, Angela Raguz, said some RN graduates employed in dementia-specific services had received as ...
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