A major international study has highlighted how midwives and nurses continued to go the extra mile to deliver person-centred care in birth units during the pandemic. The Murdoch Children's Research Institute study examined data from nearly 700 babies in 13 ...

Experts have sounded the alarm on the growing crisis of antibiotic-resistant superbugs that could potentially lead tens of million Australians into hospital. More than 10 million people could be killed by antimicrobial resistance (AMR) each year, costing the world economy ...

Nurses and other health professionals could be administering saliva swabs in healthcare settings to predict someone's risk of developing cancer in the near future. University of Melbourne researcher Sibel Saya kicked off an Australian-first study earlier this month that could ...

The Commission has released two new quality improvement tools to help healthcare services implement the Sepsis Clinical Care Standard launched earlier this year. The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care released the Sepsis Clinical Care Standard in June to ...

A cup of black tea each day could help stave off heart disease and reduce pressure on hospitals, a new study says. Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in Australia and is taking the lives of ...

An Australian-first standard has been released to educate healthcare workers, including nurses and midwives, about the prevention of stillbirths and care for families. Each day, six babies are stillborn across the country. For 30 per cent of these cases, the medical ...

A long-time fertility nurse says IVF and other reproductive treatments have come a long way from when she started her career back in the nineties. Nursing Review spoke with Jan Mackenzie, who works at Monash IVF as a nurse manager,​ in ...

A university in the Northern Territory is refurbishing their clinical simulation suites to better prepare their nursing workforce for the state's healthcare challenges. Dean of CDU's College of Nursing and Midwifery professor Karen Francis says NT's health system is in ...

Cardiology research is facing a substantial loss of expertise due to a lack of funding for basic science, according to researchers. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major contributor to Australia's overall disease burden. It remains the leading cause of death ...

Deaths in residential aged care settings occur frequently enough to be core business. It is sometimes difficult to assess when an individual might be dying, and sometimes an acute event means that they may be transferred to hospital and die ...