Nurses in regional NSW fear that ongoing staff shortages and daily changes in exposure sites will leave them overwhelmed in the coming weeks, advocates have told Nursing Review. Health authorities have flagged the Central Coast as a growing area of ...

The first large scale study of the school outcomes of children hospitalised with chronic illnesses has found they are three times more likely to fall behind than their peers. The study, from UNSW Sydney and University of Sydney, looked at ...

A drug commonly used to sedate children receiving treatment in intensive care has been identified as a “possible predictor” of post traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), a study led by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has found. The study, which ...

A Sydney doctor has declared “pre-Covid life has died” as he made an impassioned plea for the nation to get vaccinated as the only way of returning to some form of normality. In a now viral Facebook post, Sacha Kepreotis described ...

New research has challenged the conventional wisdom that women must wait at least 24 months after giving birth to become pregnant again. Curtin University-led research found that the WHO recommendation that women wait two years, in order to reduce the ...

People who oppose the Covid-19 jab have abused and spat on nurses in disturbing incidents at Victorian vaccination hubs, authorities have revealed. Health Minister Martin Foley revealed shocking details about an incident at Cranbourne vaccine hub where an “anti-vaxxer” made “completely inappropriate ...

The corporate leader of an aged care centre in Sydney’s northwest has confessed she has no idea how many of its staff have been vaccinated against Covid-19. Summit Care Baulkham Hills chief operating officer Michelle Sloane told the media on ...

A new report has revealed that 277 patients caught COVID-19 in Victorian hospitals last year. A Victorian department of health analysis looked at data from January 25 to 15 November 2020. A total of 2,492 people were hospitalised with COVID-19 ...

A Gold Coast nurse charged with trying to murder a man because she believed he had raped someone told police she would kill the man if they did not do something, a court has heard. The alleged threat issued by Kristy Lee ...

Vaccination against COVID-19 will now be mandatory for anyone working in residential aged care, the government has announced. In a late night press conference after a national cabinet meeting, PM Scott Morrison said state and territory leaders agreed that by ...