The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has pressed the federal government to step up its COVID-19 vaccine dose donation efforts as the existing $300 million Pacific support package is due to expire in June. During the pandemic, the ...

Every day, 35 people are diagnosed with Parkinson's in Australia, yet few people understand the disease well.  Parkinson's unique expression of physical and cognitive symptoms can also pose challenges for nurses and carers alike.  With April being Parkinson's Awareness Month, ...

I don’t think I heard a word after she said, ‘you have cancer’. As my husband and I sat across from my breast surgeon, I’m pretty sure I went straight into shock. The world continued to spin on its axis ...

It was a life-changing event at a local football club that led Maddy Bowers to pursue nursing. The former NSW state junior equestrian champion was just 17 when her father collapsed and had a massive heart attack during the game. ...

While standing on a church roof with a group of schoolchildren in Papua New Guinea, Louise Dingle, a former flight attendant and trained psychotherapist, had an epiphany.  The 59-year-old had spent decades exploring the world, seeing first-hand the impacts of the ...

While Kasey Chambers was inspired to write the song entitled ‘Not Pretty Enough’ about her feeling that she did not fit in to the music industry, many injured children can relate to the sentiment of not being pretty enough: feeling ...

Recent research has told us that one in six women in Australia have lost their jobs due to endometriosis, with one in three being passed over for a promotion at work. A national survey of 389 women diagnosed with the ...

Before it had hit nine o’clock on a Monday morning, school nurse Lisa Chalmers had already been greeted with a raft of changes made to COVID-19 protocols and a student returning home from South Africa. "That involves then working through ...

If the Australian healthcare sector was a country, it would be the fifth-largest carbon emitter on the entire planet. Experts say that nurses, making up the largest group of healthcare workers, can use their trusted voice in the community to ...

When clinical midwife Jan Becker first stepped into a busy delivery ward in sub-Saharan Africa eight years ago, it was both beautiful and horrifying.  Every woman who gave birth was in the same room, on a sponge rubber bed, with ...