A decrease in negative blood types in Australia may change how emergency blood transfusions are performed in the future, experts have said. In the first major blood group assessment done since the early ’90s, scientists from the Australian Red Cross ...

Paramedics have launched industrial action amid a desperate call to the NSW government to improve staffing levels, while nurses are considering walking off the job for the second time this year. NSW paramedics launched the 24-hour industrial work bans on Monday, ...

St Vincent’s Hospital chief executive Anthony Schembri has shared his eye-opening experience of feeling out of place in the healthcare system. Earlier this year, Schembri was diagnosed with a “rare and random life-changing illness” and recently returned to work after spending ...

A teenage girl was given Panadol by a remote north-west Queensland hospital and sent home on multiple occasions before succumbing to a serious heart condition that went untreated, Four Corners has revealed. Yvette “Betty” Booth was just 18 when she died from ...

NSW has recorded its fourth case of Japanese encephalitis as the disease spreads across the state. The mosquito-borne virus had never been detected in the state before this year. The latest person to be infected was a woman in her ...

Aged care residents, people who are unvaccinated and other at-risk communities will be among the first in the country to receive a newly approved at-home COVID-19 treatment. Antiviral pill Lageviro, also known as molnupiravir, was recently listed on the Pharmaceutical ...

The Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN) has urged the Federal Government to consider greater access to MBS items for Credentialed Mental Health Nurses (CMHNs) as a means of dealing with high demand for mental health services. This comes ...

The world’s largest nursing federation has expressed solidarity with the nurses and health workers trapped in Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.  The International College of Nurses (ICN) released a statement urging for an end to the conflict, which as of ...

Residents in NSW, Victoria and Queensland are being warned to protect themselves from mosquito bites after the detection of a virus that can turn into a potentially life-threatening condition. Traces of the mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus were found in ...

A Melbourne doctor who continued to practise after being suspended and then hid from authorities by locking himself in a bathroom, has been convicted and ordered to do 300 hours of community work. Nicholas Sevdalis was handed a two-year community ...