Kidney census reveals patients need to know more about dialysis. Results from a recent survey conducted by Kidney Health Australia have shown that patients facing dialysis need a greater understanding of the choices available to them. Kidney Health Australia conducted ...

Under a Labor win, NSW will have its first public mother and baby mental health unit. NSW will have its first public mother and baby mental health unit if the Labor government is re-elected. Premier Kristina Keneally said a state-wide ...

The provision of a well trained and culturally capable maternal and child health workforce is pivotal. Indigenous communities throughout Australia are set to reap far-reaching benefits from a key initiative involving Griffith University and Townsville District Health Service. One fifth ...

A drug usually in the headlines when top athletes are found out as substance cheats could soon be helping people to recover from a traumatic brain injury. Australian scientists are part of a global effort looking at whether erythropoietin - ...

A higher body-mass-index is associated with chronic diseases that increase the risk of dementia, new research has found. Dementia and obesity are two of Australia’s biggest public health problems and the relationship between them is now one step closer to ...

The NSW Coalition plans to add more than 2000 nurses and over 13-hundred beds to the state's health system if it wins the state election. Hospitals in Sydney's southwest would get 100 extra beds and 25 extra nurses under a ...

Removing the inconsistencies in how students are assessed will result in a better prepared workforce. Newly registered nurses will be better able to ‘hit the ward running’ in the high-pressure environment of the nation’s hospitals and care facilities with the ...

The introduction of universal high-speed broadband will make available everywhere a range of health services not currently available to much of rural and remote Australia. Universal access to high-speed broadband at a uniform retail price has the capacity to transform ...

For true reform of the health system, there must be no dominance by any one profession, says RCNA. Australian nurses are disappointed by the lack of support from the Australian Medical Association (AMA) for a health system based on interdisciplinary ...

Doctors and nurses can petition to withdraw life support. India's Supreme Court ruled that life support can be legally removed for some terminally ill patients in a ruling that will allow "passive euthanasia" for the first time. The judgement on ...