An infectious disease expert says not only will monkeypox cases continue to rise, but we're also likely facing the appearance of new contagious diseases in the future. According to Griffith University Professor Nigel McMillan, climate change, population increase and urbanisation ...

North Carolina-based scientists say they may have designed a universal vaccine that could protect us from current and future Covid strains, but progress is being held back due to funding issues. The dominant BA.4 and BA.5 strains have proven to ...

Mental health nurses are calling on the government to use their expertise to drive a targeted response towards rising rates of mental illness in Australia. According to the latest ABS data, nearly two in five people aged 16 to 24 ...

Nurses in two major Sydney hospitals have walked off the job to highlight dangerously low staffing levels. As hospitals prepare for the predicted surge of new Covid cases before the August peak, nurses gathered outside Blacktown and Westmead Hospitals on Monday morning to ...

Photo: Supplied An expert says Australian abortion legislation is hindering people seeking access to those services, and suggests nurses and midwives should be more involved. CQUniversity academic Lydia Mainey, who specialises in abortion care and gender-based violence, says a change ...

Australian hospitals have issued a plea for blood donations after back-to-back disasters have diminished supplies. Floods, road closures, the flu season and Covid-19 are all being blamed for reducing people’s ability to donate life-saving blood. With the impact of recent ...

A new Flinders University study has shown how a protein called tau, a critical factor in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, turns from normal to a disease state. Researchers say the discovery could help to prevent the tau transformation process ...

A psychiatric nurse has been suspended after she formed a personal and intimate relationship with a “highly vulnerable” patient. Jaclyn Stratton was working in regional Victoria when she began a six-month relationship with a patient under her care. The relationship included regular ...

Last week, nurses and midwives took to the streets demanding more staff, and better pay and work conditions. Organised by NSW's Nurses and Midwives Association, this year's third strike came in response to the state's health workforce boost that's planning ...

The Honorary Fellowship Award handed down by Australia's largest nursing union, the Royal College of Nursing, went to Professor Patricia M. Davidson this year, recognising her distinguished career as a nurse, researcher and educator.  Having co-authored over 500 journal articles ...