The security measures around Australia's controversial e-health records system will be examined in a parliamentary inquiry. My Health Record came under fire when it was due to be fully rolled out over concerns people's data would not be protected adequately. ...

A second nurse has been charged over the death of two babies shortly after vaccination in Samoa. Police on Wednesday arrested the woman and charged her with manslaughter and conspiring to defeat justice. She's understood to have been released from ...

Gender diverse people report experiencing barriers to quality and comprehensive health care, and show poorer health outcomes compared with the general public, across almost every area. Registered nurse, author and activist Yolanda Bogert will address some of these issue at ...

Patients who are told they have cancer for low risk conditions are more likely to choose surgery than whose who hear different terms for their diagnosis. To curb this trend, academics are calling for the removal of the 'cancer' label ...

A nurse has reportedly been charged with manslaughter over the deaths of two babies who died shortly after being vaccinated in Samoa last month. Last week police in Samoa confirmed the senior nurse had been charged with negligence and conspiracy ...

Researchers have shone light on the medical reasons for illicit cannabis use among Australians. The team from the University of Sydney's Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics surveyed around 1700 individuals in a 12-month period who self-reported cannabis use for therapeutic ...

Retail brand Jeanswest is set to celebrate its fans in a campaign featuring seven of its members, with a Hobart nurse among them. Gracie Patten, who works as a paediatrics and theatre nurse, will take centre stage in the brand's ...

Nurses in Sydney’s west have this week joined to demand employer Allity Aged Care put forward an updated enterprise agreement that meets their expectations. The provider’s aged care nurses met in their own time outside Allity’s Beechwood Aged Care facility ...

Some patients in desperate need of a kidney transplant participated in a bold experiment where they received organs infected with hepatitis C. The gamble paid off. Their new organs are working fine thanks to medication that got rid of the ...

Women are more likely to survive a heart attack if they are treated by a female doctor in hospital, a major study has shown. Scientists in the US reviewed nearly 582,000 heart attack cases in Florida over a period of ...