Jane Hill is the CEO of Ovarian Cancer Australia. February is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and to mark the occasion, there will be a function at Parliament House on Wednesday 8 February 2017 attended by government politicians and an Afternoon ...

Australian health professionals now have access to an interactive online portal designed to track the nation’s progress in the fight against hepatitis C virus. The resource, called Spread the Cure and supported by pharmaceutical company MSD, also aims to raise ...

Professor Linda Shields from Charles Sturt University is a specialist in nursing ethics. She has co-written a book on the role of nurses in Nazi Germany’s forced euthanasia programs and recently authored an opinion paper on the role of nurses ...

Macular Disease Foundation Australia has released a new report into the long-term funding requirements for aids and technologies to assist the 100,000 older Australians with vision loss or blindness. The report, titled Low Vision, Quality of Life and Independence: A Review ...

Residents taking nine or more medications have an 89 per cent higher risk of hospitalisation than those who take less than nine, the authors of a new study have said. Conducted by Monash University researchers and staff from Resthaven, the ...

Primary healthcare networks will likely benefit by thinking outside the box to consider less traditional approaches to problems that persist despite best efforts, experts in the field have said. Dr Petra Bywood and Dr Katrina Erny-Albrecht, both from Flinders University, ...

"I don’t eat when I’m sick." "The smell of food makes me feel nauseous." "I’m quite depressed at the moment. When you get like that you don’t feel like eating much." These were some of the sentiments shared by participants ...

An Australian university has swapped out traditional journal clubs for a Twitter-based group to improve students’ engagement with evidence-based practice. A research team from the University of Technology Sydney, led by Dr Caleb Ferguson from the Graduate School of Health, ...

Australian health experts have urged state and federal governments and local councils to protect rural populations from the multiple potential health risks associated with unconventional gas mining. The call comes from an article, published this week in Rural and Remote ...

Hypnotherapy may reduce anxiety and pain amongst children being treated for serious burns, a new study has found. Study lead Stephen Chester, a PhD candidate with the University of Queensland (UQ), said previous research had shown adults with burns benefited ...