The federal government has committed $128,000 to fund mental health course materials for undergraduate nursing degrees across the country. Minister for rural health, senator Bridget McKenzie, said the funding would be provided to the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses ...

A team of Australian researchers is using human stem cells to develop light-focusing eye lenses that could significantly improve the lives of children born with cataracts. Dr Michael O'Connor from the School of Medicine at Western Sydney University said the researchers ...

The New South Wales town of Berrigan has been identified as the first Australian township to have all health and aged care services connected to the My Health Record system. MHR acts as a secure online summary of a resident's ...

As part of National Close the Gap Day today (Thursday), the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association has urged governments to act in favour of Indigenous health. AHHA strategic programs director Dr Chris Bourke said Australia had great foundations for a ...

A ‘WHY not’ moment and a thirst for a new adventure was all it took to convince Brent Lang and his wife Taighen to pack their belongings into a few bags and head north. It didn’t take long for the ...

New guidelines for the care of pregnant women are placing a greater focus on healthy weight and risk associated with obesity. Announced by federal health minister Greg Hunt earlier this month, the latest guidelines recommend that health professionals have more ...

A humble vitamin B3 supplement could be the key to treating glaucoma, new research has found. Melbourne's Centre for Eye Research Australia is in the midst of conducting a world-first human trial that uses vitamin B3 to treat the disease of ...

Palliative Care Australia has launched the fifth edition of the National Palliative Care Standards and the Palliative Care Service Development Guidelines, in an effort to better shape how palliative care is planned, funded and delivered across Australia in the next ...

The first speakers for the 42nd World Hospital Congress have been announced, and will join a lineup of health leaders in Brisbane this October. During the announcement last week, Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association chief executive Alison Verhoeven said delegates ...

Nearly half of Australians on stable lipid-lowering cholesterol treatment are not having enough high-density lipoprotein tests, research has revealed. The new figures, published in BMJ Open, suggest that many Australians may be at risk of developing cardiovascular disease because health ...