The death of an involuntary patient less than 24 hours after she was admitted to a public hospital in Perth is being investigated by a West Australian coroner. Pamela Edith Ashley, 64, was brought by her concerned husband to Armadale ...

Women who suffer pre-eclampsia during pregnancy have a higher risk of dementia in later life, a new study suggests. Researchers say the pregnancy condition is linked to dementia, particularly vascular dementia. Pre-eclampsia is characterised by new onset of high blood ...

Does swapping out current tube-fed formulas with an energy-enriched option lift survival rates among critically ill patients? This was “one of the most important unanswered questions” in the field of critical care nutrition, Monash University’s Dr Emma Ridley said. Ridley, ...

Nurses have vowed to halt some non-urgent surgery across Adelaide's public hospitals unless the state government provides an urgent "circuit breaker" to ease overcrowding. About 150 nurses rallied outside the Royal Adelaide Hospital on Monday as the Australian Nursing and ...

Training provider The Advanced Skills Academy has launched a new cosmetic injectors course to meet the rising demand for cosmetic procedures. The course is only open to RNs and doctors, who have seen the number of cosmetic procedures grow between ...

The university and nursing sectors have teamed up to boost the number of mental health nurses in South Australia. Flinders University and the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (SA Branch) joined forces to tackle statistics showing the state is set ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care needs to go beyond the urgent problems of residential aged care to look at the full formal system of care and support. We need to ensure we can increase staffing levels in residential care ...

Rates of caesarean section births have nearly doubled between 2000 and 2015 – to 21 per cent worldwide – new research has found, with the life-saving surgery unavailable to many women in poor countries while often over-used in richer ones. ...

Blood clots kill four times more Australians than car accidents – and not enough is being done to curb them in hospital settings. That’s why the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) released a new ...

Dreamworld management "fobbed off" a safety officer's attempts to provide out-of-hours training to staff at the Gold Coast theme park, a court has heard. Rebecca Ramsey, a qualified nurse, told an inquest into the deaths of four people on the ...