Curtis Powell was a 10-year-old boy who relied on his aunt Jodie - but she failed him. He was covered in bruises because of a medical condition which led to him having issues with spatial awareness. But the condition also ...

A patient at a Sydney hospital has died after being handcuffed and put on a stretcher by police following concerns about his behaviour. The officers were called to Prince of Wales Hospital at Randwick at about 6.30pm on Monday and ...

Last week, the royal commission heard evidence from the players involved in the closing of the Earle Haven facility in Queensland. The sudden closure left 68 residents temporarily homeless, and during testimony there was confusion – due to the complicated nature ...

The humble pill organiser could be doing more harm than good, according to researchers. Researchers from the University of East Anglia have developed a guidance system to help prescribers and pharmacists decide which patients should use a pill organiser. The study ...

An aged care provider should have been pushed out of the industry well before its Gold Coast retirement home's unprecedented abrupt closure, a royal commission barrister says. The federal health department should have revoked approval for People Care in 2017, ...

While keeping food spend low in aged care might seem like a cost-saving measure, it’s actually a false economy. That’s one of the messages Dr Sandra Iuliano, who provided evidence at the aged care royal commission, sent to the sector via ...

The head of nursing at a Queensland aged care facility was drunk on the job and bullied her staff, a court has found. She was also incompetent in her care for residents at the Millmerran Centenary Retirement Village, west of Brisbane, ...

Nurses around the world are reporting that shift work is affecting their gut health, causing issues like diarrhea and irritable bowel syndrome. And now Australian researchers want to explore those ties across all spectrums of work. Lead researcher Dr Phillip ...

Amelia Morris and countless other mentally ill Victorians are waiting to see how the state's royal commission will fix a broken system. Public hearings for the inquiry into mental health care in Victoria wrap up on Friday, following four weeks ...

Our two-million-year-old ancestors continually breastfed infants from birth until they were about one year old, an analysis of teeth has revealed. Led by Southern Cross University and Monash University, the international team behind the study looked at teeth from Australopithecus ...