In Australia, our population is ageing. In order to support our overall health, this means we need our teeth and mouth to remain healthy for much longer. There are many oral health issues that can particularly impact the aged and ...

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) will today reiterate its support for a Bill that would make it compulsory for aged care providers to publicly disclose staffing levels. The Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport will also ...

Does swapping out current tube-fed formulas with an energy-enriched option lift survival rates among critically ill patients? This was “one of the most important unanswered questions” in the field of critical care nutrition, Monash University’s Dr Emma Ridley said. Ridley, ...

The university and nursing sectors have teamed up to boost the number of mental health nurses in South Australia. Flinders University and the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (SA Branch) joined forces to tackle statistics showing the state is set ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care needs to go beyond the urgent problems of residential aged care to look at the full formal system of care and support. We need to ensure we can increase staffing levels in residential care ...

Blood clots kill four times more Australians than car accidents – and not enough is being done to curb them in hospital settings. That’s why the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) released a new ...

Transforming information into intelligence requires the adoption of interoperability approaches, including a key set of standards. That’s the message from managing director for Global ehealth Collaborative Dr Evelyn Hovenga who will address delegates at the World Hospital Congress in Brisbane. ...

Researchers are concerned that Australians aren’t making the most of the range of contraception available to them following findings that a quarter of women who have been pregnant in the previous decade said their pregnancy was unplanned. La Trobe University ...

A second skin for patients that provides real-time monitoring is on the horizon. Researchers at Monash University have patented a stretchable electronic device that can track health signals, from muscle strain and blood pressure to cholesterol and glucose levels. Health ...

Australian researchers have used thermal imaging to assess the wound size and predict healing trajectory of diabetes-related foot ulcers – and they say it works. Principal investigator Elif Ekinci, University of Melbourne principal research fellow and head of diabetes at ...