Young people’s growing use of and exposure to technology can create risks to their mental health but also provide opportunity for intervention, a leading expert argues. Speaking at the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses 8th Primary Mental Health Care ...

Australia remains a long way from providing everyone with access to quality end-of-life care, the nation’s peak palliative care group states. “We remain a very long way from achieving our goals,” Palliative Care Australia chief executive Liz Callaghan said. The ...

Parents shouldn’t buy into the idea that good babies rest through the night. It’s not long before new parents get asked the loaded cultural question, “Is she a good baby?” Which all new parents understand as code for is the ...

The risk of a heart attack is 8.5 times higher in the two hours following a burst of intense anger and 9.5 times higher in the two hours after an anxiety episode, research has revealed. “The triggers for [the] bursts of ...

Queensland University of Technology will be developing implementation tools for prescribing competencies. Project lead professor Lisa Nissen, head of the school of clinical sciences at QUT, spoke with health editor Dallas Bastian about the issue of health professionals lacking prescribing ...

Depression affects up to 15 per cent of women after birth and a predictive model could be used help prevent the health issue, according to a medical researcher and statistician. Dr Fenglian Xu, who will be undertaking research into developing a ...

New research has indicated that a significant percentage of WA’s nursing students have been exposed to aggression and violence while on clinical placement. The study, carried out by Murdoch University PhD student Martin Hopkins, surveyed 150 second and third year ...

Nursing professor uses aquatic exercise to help people living with dementia. There are few meaningful physical activity programs for people with dementia, especially plans that take into account significant disabilities, an academic says. Her solution? A dip in the pool. ...

Some guidelines are leading users away from best practice for the use of inhalers.  From the very start of their careers nurses are taught to search credible sources of information to find reliable researched practice guidelines upon which to base ...

Study shows healthcare workers' perceptions and challenges related to end-of-life care and choices.  Despite a plethora of local, state-based, national and international guidelines and resources, it is clear professionals providing palliative care face considerable challenges, many specific to their area ...