Beth Wozniak is a nurse in the Maitland region of mid-northern New South Wales. She is the founder of Scrubit, a new app that modernises hospital procedures. “Since completing my nursing degree in Queensland, I’ve worked in many operating theatres ...

Telling someone that their loved one is gone or has passed might seem like a gentle way to break news of a death but sometimes using such euphemisms can lead to misunderstanding and confusion, a palliative care expert has cautioned. ...

What if a computer could tell you when you will die? The concept sounds like an elevator pitch for a science fiction novel but University of Adelaide researchers are working to bring the idea to life. Recent research, published in ...

Nurses at Epworth Richmond are leading a hospital-wide effort to divert an estimated 12 tonnes of hospital waste from landfill each year. Theatre nurse Rebecca Pascoe has been heading a team of staff that drives the recycling of aluminium and ...

How does living with a pooch influence a person's health? That’s the question at the centre of a new University of Sydney study. Study lead associate professor Emmanuel Stamatakis, from the Charles Perkins Centre and Sydney School of Public Health, ...

Registered nurse Vanessa Cramond knows well the toll of war on the health of a country’s people. After starting her career working with people living with HIV, Cramond took on increasingly senior roles within Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and eventually led ...

Brain stimulation during exercise might look like something straight out of science fiction but the combination could one day be used to help older Australians and people who have had a stroke, new research suggests. Researchers from the University of ...

Not enough people are protecting themselves from a potentially fatal lung disease, respiratory disease experts have said. The call coincides with the release of Lung Foundation Australia research that found three quarters of Australian adults couldn't be motivated to protect ...

A nurse from the Northern Territory has taken out one of the top gongs at the HESTA Australian Nursing & Midwifery Awards for her work in delivering on-country dialysis services to Aboriginal people experiencing kidney disease. Sarah Brown, chief executive ...

An aged care provider has launched a campaign to encourage the public to give their thanks to nurses for all they do, following research that revealed fewer than one-in-three people can name a nurse who has cared for them or ...