Nurses fighting the deadly coronavirus across China are exhausted, low on supplies and taking to social media to show the physical sacrifices they have made to combat the crisis. Pictures have emerged on social media of nurses with deep facial ...

A nurse at a German hospital who was arrested on suspicion of administering morphine to five babies has been released after new tests showed that investigators' initial findings were wrong, prosecutors say. The five babies at the University Hospital in ...

There’s a good chance that nurses at the Royal Melbourne Hospital who encountered a threatening patient in the emergency department were dealing with someone who had taken methamphetamine. Researchers from the University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health tested saliva from patients ...

Australia’s major cities are becoming increasingly expensive to live in, with many people priced out of living in city centres entirely. Figures show that in Sydney less than one per cent of rental housing is deemed affordable housing and researchers ...

Australian researchers have renewed concerns that people are increasingly being diagnosed with cancers that will do them no harm if left undetected or untreated, following new research into five cancer types. Lead author Professor Paul Glasziou, from Bond University, looked at data ...

Authorities have identified five cases of the Wuhan coronavirus in Australia – four from NSW and one from Victoria. Globally there have been 2014 confirmed cases: 1985 in China and the rest in the Western Pacific Region, South East Asia, ...

Nurses and other health professionals are being urged to encourage patients to give up tobacco before undergoing surgery. The call comes with a new World Health Organization Tobacco Knowledge Summary, led by the University of Newcastle (UNE) and the World ...

The latest data released by the Productivity Commission shows that wait times for those needing to enter residential aged care have increased almost 50 per cent since 2016–2017. The report released this week also shows that those Australians waiting for the ...

A concertgoing nurse has been labelled a hero for her work treating Wiggles performer Greg Page after he suffered cardiac arrest at a bushfire fundraiser late last week. Off duty-nurse Grace Jones was in the audience of the Wiggles concert ...

Nurses have made headlines in the US for using social media platform TikTok to spread health information some believe is unhelpful. One such nurse was spotlighted for her video claiming that the best way to prevent STIs was to wait ...