A local biotech company thinks it may have found the future drug to treat Alzheimer's disease.  This week, Australian firm Actinogen announced that its latest trial of the drug Xanamem had shown improved attention and working memory in Alzheimer’s patients. CEO Dr ...

After nurses reported escalating rates of workplace assault, a state inquiry has been launched into the working conditions inside a Canberra mental health facility. Yesterday, the ACT government announced an inquiry into the Dhulwa Mental Health Unit following repeated calls ...

Aged care workers across QLD, WA and SA have backed taking industrial action over “chronic understaffing” and low pay, as the union warns walkouts are highly likely before the federal election. More than 7000 United Workers Union members employed at aged care providers across three ...

Third-year nursing student Shamsiya Hassam Mooradun recently attended a virtual Public Health Study Tour (PHST) program about Indonesia’s public health sector to aid in the development of her nursing career. The two-week intensive program is intended to equip students with ...

Federal Labor has promised to launch a national health and wellbeing service for nurses and midwives to help ease “relentless” burnout and exhaustion across the sector. Speaking to health workers on Wednesday, opposition leader Anthony Albanese said Labor would commit ...

With 170,000 Australians breaking a bone annually, University of Southern Queensland PhD student Janitha Jeewantha thought it was time to redesign the old way of casting injuries. With help from his professor, Jeewantha developed a hybrid shape memory polymer 'smart ...

NSW health care workers took to the streets on Thursday to increase pressure on the state government over pay rises and staffing levels. The Health Services Union (HSU) has made repeated attempts to begin negotiations over a productivity-based pay rise, ...

A male nurse charged by NSW police after allegedly sexually assaulting three women at hospitals in Sydney’s northwest was released on bail on Friday. In September 2021, police investigated reports a 25-year-old female patient was sexually assaulted while recovering from heart ...

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 ...

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 ...