Quick fixes and gimmicks are no safe way to weight loss and nutrition in the long term; learn to help patients steer clear of them. The Lemon Detox Diet, the Clay Diet, the Breatharian Diet, the Atkins Diet, the Wheat ...

There are more overweight or obese men in Australia than women, yet most weight-reduction surgeries are performed on women. A team of researchers hopes to help change that. As the number of bariatric surgeries increases, the numbers of men receiving ...

Hospital infections are down but mental healthcare has deteriorated, a recently released report states. The Australasian Clinical Indicator Report 2008–2013, published by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS), presents an overview of the changes in levels of performance in ...

An online education program aims to boost nurses' emergency management skills using simulations of deteriorating patients. The program, FIRST2ACTweb (Feedback Incorporating Review and Simulation Techniques to Act on Clinical Trends), was developed by Monash University researchers, the University of Queensland, ...

We ask the experts about the challenges facing dementia care in Australia, and how to overcome them.  Each week, more than 1700 people in Australia are diagnosed with dementia. As our ageing population grows, it’s expected that this number will ...

Educator says the harsh life in remote Australia is the perfect breeding ground for nurses and midwives.  Nothing makes a better nurse than growing up in the bush, Jane Mills tells her audience. Mills, an associate professor from James Cook ...

Research will look into how to give seniors the best chance at staying out of hospital when they need medical treatment.  Keeping our ageing population from having to leave their homes or residential aged-care facilities for medical treatment will be ...

Every patient is different; whenever one presents a particularly troublesome problem, meeting it with the specified precautions is critical.  The way patients who present special difficulties are managed needs to be individualised, even with all the competing demands on nurses’ time, ...

Peak body calls for comment to help shape new, streamlined set of guidelines for best practice.  Australia’s peak organisation for palliative care is calling for interested parties to provide feedback on the revised national draft standards. Palliative Care Australia, which ...

Quiet please, sleep in progress A study into patients’ sleep patterns reveals plenty of ways to cut down on noise pollution in hospital. Australia’s largest study into what keeps patients awake at night reveals that sleep quality is poor, but ...