A team of Australian researchers is using human stem cells to develop light-focusing eye lenses that could significantly improve the lives of children born with cataracts. Dr Michael O'Connor from the School of Medicine at Western Sydney University said the researchers ...
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Nursing on the front line: volunteer’s journey into a war zone
Allah yerhamu – “God have mercy on him”. This is one of the first lines of Arabic I needed to learn after arriving in Tal Abyad Hospital in northern Syria. They are the only words of comfort to offer when ...
More »Pressure injury prevention sore spot for students
Nursing students aren’t aware of some strategies to prevent pressure injuries but feel it falls on them to help out, a survey has found. Researchers from the University of New England (UNE) quizzed undergraduate nursing students across seven Australian universities ...
More »Patients act like hostages in their fear of speaking up: study
Patients who feel unable to assert themselves in the presence of clinicians mirror the behaviour of adult kidnapped hostages, a research team has suggested. Researchers from Monash Business School and Texas A&M University said the phenomenon, called hostage bargaining syndrome, ...
More »Blood test could detect cancer early
Australian scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hill Institute are among a team of researchers who have developed a blood test that detects cancers before symptoms appear. The test is yet to hit the market, but AMA president Dr Michael ...
More »Do you know one of Australia’s best nurses?
Staff in the healthcare industry are being asked to nominate the nation’s most outstanding nurses and midwives for the 2018 HESTA Australian Nursing and Midwifery Awards. The annual awards recognise nurses, midwives, nurse educators, researchers and personal care workers for ...
More »Whistleblowing: what leads a nurse to make the call?
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 ...
More »Identifying signs of intentional injury in children
History tells us that intentional injury is not a new phenomenon: in 1860 a French pathologist Auguste Ambroise Tardieu wrote a forensic study on the cruelty and the ill treatment of children. While the terminology has evolved over time to ...
More »Rural residents given better access to mental health services
Minister for Health Greg Hunt and Assistant Minister for Health David Gillespie have launched a new telehealth initiative to remove barriers to mental health treatments and improve access to psychological services for residents in rural and remote areas. Under the new expanded ...
More »Humans better than robots at surgery
Robots don't always have the upper hand - new studies suggest that humans make better surgeons. As hospitals spend millions on robotics and new technology, studies by Leeds University and Stanford University have revealed that robots used in medical settings ...
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