Union members, community groups, local government representatives and aged-care workers gathered outside NSW Parliament last week ahead of a debate on the future of registered nurses in NSW nursing homes. Prior to the scheduled parliamentary debate on a petition of ...

A new study has found men over 60 are less likely than younger men to get tested for HIV. In light of the finding, Dr Carole Khaw, from the University of Adelaide’s School of Medicine and Clinic 275 Infectious Diseases ...

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 ...

Gender diversity within the medical technology industry has come under the spotlight as a leading body in the field works to address the under-representation of women. The Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA), which represents companies in the industry, commissioned an ...

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 ...

Head and neck cancer is the sixth most common form of the disease in the world and the prognosis for people diagnosed late is poor. A team of researchers at the University of Technology, Sydney, has been working to increase the ...

You're on the right track but put more emphasis on the consumer and affordability. That was the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association's (AHHA) reaction to the release of the Primary Health Care Advisory Group's discussion paper, Better Outcomes for People with ...

Older patients are more likely to die if they wait more than four hours to be transferred to an in-patient hospital bed after receiving emergency care than people who waited less time. That’s according to a three-year study that looked ...

Australia's cancer death rates are decreasing and the trend is predicted to continue over the next decade. But cancer is still the second most common cause of death in Australia after heart disease, with 46,470 people predicted to die from ...