Scientists from around the world are pushing for recognition that it is possible COVID-19 can spread through airborne transmission. In an open letter, 239 experts from a range of science and engineering fields, including virology, aerosol physics and medicine, appealed ...

Sunday saw a grim milestone reached as global cases of COVID-19 hit 10 million according to data from Johns Hopkins University. This comes as the WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns the end is not in sight and numbers in ...

Just under 14,000 New Zealanders have signed a petition calling for an end to the pay disparity between the country’s registered nurses who work in aged care and their counterparts in public hospitals. “Registered nurses who work in aged care ...

School leavers who are hoping to study humanities will either have to foot a bill double that of their predecessors or pick different subjects under a new scheme announced by Minister for Education Dan Tehan. On the flip side of ...

It’s low-cost and widely available and yet dexamethasone is the drug that has researchers' tongues wagging after a UK trial showed it reduced deaths among COVID-19 patients. In trial results that scientists called a “major breakthrough”, a low dose of ...

Mental health nurses will now be based at a number of police stations across NSW as part of the Government’s response to a growing mental health crisis. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that 36 mental health nurses will be placed ...

British PM Boris Johnson and his Government are accused of “trying to gag” medical experts after they dropped the chief nurse Ruth May from a daily briefing, as reported by The Independent. It has been reported that May refused to ...

Aged care homes will soon be required to report resident on resident abuse where the perpetrator has an assessed cognitive impairment. The removal of the current exemption will be part of the rollout of the Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS). ...

Aged care workers and providers are saying the government has broken its promise after it released further details about its retention bonus grant. In March, Minister for Aged Care Richard Colbeck announced $234.9 million for a COVID-19 retention bonus that ...

The Australian Vocational Educational and Training (VET) sector is underperforming, excessively complicated and suffers from ad hoc policy approaches according to an interim report released by the Productivity Commission last week. The sector costs the government $6.1 billion each year ...