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 ...

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 ...

Following its release last night, health and aged care peak bodies and industry experts have sorted through the Turnbull Government’s 2017-18 Federal Budget with a fine-tooth comb. Here, Nursing Review shares what they believe are the biggest wins for the ...

Registered nurse Maggie Groff has worn many hats throughout her career, including staff nurse, island nurse and industrial nurse. She now wears another: award-winning author. Groff has penned a new book called Not Your Average Nurse, which explores the true story ...

Facial recognition technology might be something you would expect to see while watching a blockbuster movie or crime show, but for staff at Epworth Freemasons in Melbourne, it was part of the patient-identification process. Epworth HealthCare trialed the use of ...

Despite media and political noise surrounding vaccine-hesitant parents, non-immunised children form a very small proportion of under-vaccinated Australians, and a shift of perspective is urgently required. This is the call from Dr Rob Menzies, senior Lecturer at the University of ...

The experts behind a Victorian telemedicine program that delivers acute stroke care to regional Victoria want the intervention to go national. Professor Christopher Bladin, program lead of the Victorian Stroke Telemedicine (VST) project at The Florey Institute of Neuroscience & ...

Video games are often in the news for negative reasons but one academic has urged health professionals to be open to the potential improvements the technology can make to the lives of people in their care. Stuart Smith, former USC ...

In combat, just like in a hospital ED, you never know what is going to come through the door and you must always be prepared to help the people around you. These are the words of former British Army soldier ...

Hospital patients have tested out a technology-based program that allows them to self-assess and self-monitor their nutrition at the bedside. Dr Shelley Roberts, from Griffith University’s School of Nursing and Midwifery, and her colleagues trialed the usability and patient perceptions ...