Australian Marriage Equality (AME) has welcomed support from the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) for its campaign to legalise same-sex marriage. The motion to support the fight for marriage equality was put to the union’s delegates at its 71st Annual ...

Nurses, aged-care staff and other shift workers must take action on their bone health, Australian experts have warned. Ahead of Healthy Bone Action Week, which runs throughout the first week of August, Dr Belinda Beck, from Griffith University and co-founder of ...

Care doesn't end at the completion of treatment for head and neck cancer. That's one message University of Queensland school of dentistry researcher Kelsey Pateman sent out ahead of World Head and Neck Cancer Day late last month. She said it's ...

Australia’s peak body for asthma has called on health professionals to check their patients’ inhaler technique. The National Asthma Council Australia said it’s concerned that Australians are incorrectly using their inhalers, adding those most likely to do so include young ...

Funding and resource shortfalls. Staffing shortfalls. Skill-mix and knowledge deficits. These were some of the barriers to care delivery identified by RNs and enrolled nurses working in rural aged care, as part of a study exploring their perceptions of the ...

Prejudice. Harassment. Abuse. Violence. These are some of the issues driving transgender people to the margins of society, Australian researchers have said. It's there that they experience social isolation, poverty and poor health and wellbeing, explained the lead author of ...

About 7500 Australians will undergo dental examinations as part of a new research project that aims to assess the level of oral diseases in the Australian adult population. The $5.8 million National Study of Adult Oral Health 2016–18 will also ...

The Heart Foundation has urged Australians to move more and sit less, following the release of its new report highlighting the importance of physical activity as a factor in the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease. Former chair of the ...

The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) has called on all elected representatives to work in partnership on health and prompted cross-benchers to heed voters’ concerns on healthcare reform and funding. AHHA chief executive Alison Verhoeven said: “The message to ...

Australia is facing increased rates of obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes, as well as dangerously high levels of salt and sugar consumption in adults, a report card on the nation’s health has found. Released by Australian Health Policy Collaboration ...