Nurse training standards have been placed under fresh scrutiny after allegations that sub-standard graduates were posing a potential risk to public safety. The issue was raised after two former senior nursing academics expressed serious concerns about the standards of local and ...

Parents facing the double whammy of caring for a new baby and dealing with an unhelpful partner can get help from a free online tool designed to reduce postnatal depression. The blog and app, based on findings of a 10-year ...

A report released today found that in 2010, Indigenous Australians lost about 100,000 years of life to premature mortality. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report also held the fatal burden for Indigenous Australians was 2.6 times that for non-Indigenous Australians. Injuries and ...

Growing concerns about the risks of alcohol and drug consumption for the elderly have led to calls from researchers for screening programs to help promote awareness of how such substances can adversely affect health. Now researchers are evaluating a potential ...

The failure of university curriculums to teach clinical reasoning and decision-making skills may be limiting the safety and effectiveness of midwifery in Australia, research has found. Researchers Dr Elaine Jefford and professor Kathleen Fahy at Southern Cross University set out ...

The Queensland health minister has announced a departmental taskforce investigation following revelations that a man impersonating a nurse was employed for six weeks at a health centre. The health minister, Cameron Dick, has confirmed that the man – who was ...

One-on-one lifestyle advice for overweight pregnant women is cost-effective and highly beneficial to mothers and their babies, research has shown. Researchers at the University of Adelaide’s Robinson Research Institute – led by professor Jodie Dodd – conducted an economic evaluation along with a randomised trial ...

The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association has called on the newly re-elected Baird Government to quarantine the state’s health system from what it described as a “pattern of privatisation” emerging within the sector. In a statement issued on Monday, NSWNMA ...

About two-thirds of Australians have health issues caused by risk factors that are "modifiable", such as exercise, diet and smoking, a new report shows. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report, which was released on Wednesday, uses data from ...

Most people who modify medication dosage forms, potentially reducing their effectiveness, do so without seeking advice from healthcare professionals, a recent study has found. About 44 per cent of the 369 respondents in the study did not think there would ...