Financial insecurity and lack awareness of existing services are among the barriers vulnerable people face when it comes to accessing healthcare in Australia. That’s a key message to come from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) research, which aimed to understand ...

Thousands of people with diabetic foot disease could be spared amputations and lengthy hospitalisations if government invests in proven treatments, new research suggests. The study also found the Australian health system could save $2.7 billion over five years if people ...

Non-dispensing pharmacists will be integrated into medical centres in the greater Brisbane area to help patients stay out of hospital after discharge. The intervention is part of a study that aims to improve the transfer of information between hospitals and ...

How much green is needed amongst the grey of cities to keep people healthy and out of hospital? This is one of the key overarching questions a $3.2 million research project will explore. The five-year research project, titled ‘Greener Cities ...

The events midwives witness and participate in on the job may increase their vulnerability to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), new research suggests. The study, led by Dr Julia Leinweber at Griffith University, found almost a fifth of the midwives ...

Substantial and sustained health benefits can be achieved for urban populations if policymakers adopt different approaches to transport and city planning, a team of Australian and international researchers has argued. Air pollution, physical inactivity, noise, social isolation, unhealthy diets and ...

An Australian university has connected with a Saudi Arabian hospital to further nursing and allied health expertise and raise cross-cultural awareness between the institutions. Federation University Australia (FedUni) has partnered with Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City, a non-profitable rehabilitation hospital ...

Researchers are planning to develop a home-grown framework for registered nurses working with older people and their families. Associate Professor Victoria Traynor, from the University of Wollongong's School of Nursing, said the available nursing competencies for the aged-care sector were ...

Australians are living longer but inequality still mars the most recent Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report card. The biennial report, Australia's health 2016, found Australians are living longer than ever before and death rates continue to fall, ...

When the visual symptoms of a skin condition first become apparent, people often turn to the web for comfort, scouring Google images for photos of similar bumps or discolouration and possibly encountering incorrect information. To address this phenomenon, the Australasian College ...