Calls are growing to review spinal manipulation on babies after footage emerged of a Melbourne chiropractor performing the treatment on a two-week-old boy. The video posted to Cranbourne Family Chiropractic's Facebook page last August showed the baby being dangled upside down ...

Some people would rather die than go into residential aged care facilities. This is according to UnitingCare Australia’s Claerwen Little, who told the commission about the findings from Uniting’s research into community perceptions of aged care. They found, among other ...

‘You’re killing me.’ It might be something thrown around by couples in frustration when one partner won’t listen to the other but rarely is the inverse true. A new study might change that. New research suggests that having an attentive ...

Thousands of extra nurses and midwives will be recruited to care for patients across New South Wales hospitals in a pre-election sweetener announced by the state government. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Sunday said 5000 nurses and midwives will be ...

Profit must not come first in aged care. That’s what the Australian College of Nursing’s (ACN) message to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee boiled down to. Adjunct Professor Kylie Ward provided evidence to the committee’s inquiry on ‘Effectiveness of ...

Properly staffing aged care facilities with an adequate nursing skill mix and at least four hours and 18 minutes per-patient per-day care minimum would not cost the sector anything more than it currently outlays. That’s according to a report presented ...

Mei Krishnasamy has a strong Cardiff accent that belies her many years in Melbourne. The Welsh native has been living in Australia on and off since the early 2000s, and since 2016 has been the inaugural chair of cancer nursing ...

Australian nurses work the least amount of overtime, are generally happy at work, and have more days off when compared to their international counterparts. These are the observations of a recent international study into the links between job satisfaction, absenteeism ...

“How are you feeling today?” It’s a question nurses ask that patients might consider a simple pleasantry, but nurses know there’s much more behind it than that – and a new videographic captures that contrast. Developed by Dr Kasia Bail, ...

Women with ovarian cancer wish they could form a sea of teal to lobby for more research funding but they die too quickly, politicians have heard. New data collated by Ovarian Cancer Australia shows research into breast cancer received four ...