A man accused of pretending to be a nurse in two states will be flown to Queensland after he was found wandering in the Northern Territory outback. Nicholas William Crawford faces more than 110 charges in Queensland after he allegedly ...

Women are more likely to die after heart attack treatment than men, new research has found. Experts said this could be because women tend to be older when they suffer heart attacks, and are also more likely to be diabetic. ...

Nurse-to-patient ratios in Victoria's public hospitals will be enshrined in state law. The legislation, to be introduced to parliament this week, will also cover midwives, and mirror the ratios included in a current Public Sector Enterprise Agreement. Private hospitals and ...

An international expert is urging greater emphasis on carers and health professionals reinforcing the identity of individuals with limiting or terminal illnesses. Speaking in advance of her scheduled address at the upcoming Palliative Care Australia (PCA) conference in Melbourne, senior ...

If the care provided by family members and friends of people who are aged, chronically ill or have a disability were provided by paid carers, the estimated cost would total $60.3 billion this year alone. That's one finding of the Deloitte Access Economics ...

Nurses angrily rejected comments from the NT health minister, after he argued last week that valuable research dollars were being wasted on extending the lives of ageing terminal patients at the expense of furthering treatments for children’s health. In an ...

A study has looked into the benefits of care delivered in the home versus that offered by a specialist clinic for elderly patients with chronic heart failure. The economic evaluation, conducted by Griffith University and using data from a randomised controlled trial, ...

Shorter mothers have genes that increase their chances of giving birth to smaller or prematurely born babies, research has shown. A study of 3485 women and infants from Finland, Denmark and Norway found that every centimetre of extra height increased ...

Nurse, I have a problem. But first, let me take a selfie. The rise in use of medical selfies to relay health information to clinicians has grabbed the attention of medical photographer and Queensland University of Technology PhD researcher Kara Burns. Burns ...

A Charles Sturt University academic has told a Legislative Council committee about the value of registered nurses in residential aged care.  Last week, nursing lecturer Dr Maree Bernoth gave evidence to the inquiry into RNs in NSW nursing homes. She said: "I'm quite perplexed ...