History tells us that intentional injury is not a new phenomenon: in 1860 a French pathologist Auguste Ambroise Tardieu wrote a forensic study on the cruelty and the ill treatment of children. While the terminology has evolved over time to ...

Health professionals from Australia and the UK met to address the issue of patient safety and practitioner regulations at a seminar last week. Held in Melbourne, the event saw members of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and the ...

Can you design a better health system around you? Professor Terry Young, from London’s Brunel University, unpacked this question in a seminar at Flinders College of Medicine and Public Health. Flinders Professor Mark Mackay said not enough time is spent ...

“Urinary incontinence is not something teen girls talk about because no one really tells them it’s something they should be thinking about.” Because of this silence, Swinburne University of Technology Associate Professor Nicole Wragg says, many young girls are likely ...

Too much intervention in maternity care in high-income countries and too little in low-income countries. Fragmented care. High rates of stress and burnout for midwives and other health professionals. These are some of the issues that will be explored in ...

Australia is set to become a leader in palliative care research, thanks to a $60 million grand for end-of-life care projects. South Australia will particularly benefit, as Flinders University received $8 million for its palliative care related research. College of ...

“It’s really important our stories are told by our people. So much of Australia’s history is told through a non-Indigenous lens.” Janine Mohamed, chief executive of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM), shared this ...

Hospital infection rates of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are improving but with most cases now occurring in the community, a shift in focus is needed, a new study has found. The research team built on national data from previous studies ...

Health professionals will trial a new system that senses movements that increase a person’s risk of falling. The technology, called Ambient Intelligent Geriatric Management (AmbIGeM), then alerts health professionals of the risky behaviour. Led by Professor Renuka Visvanathan from the ...

Minister for Health Greg Hunt and Assistant Minister for Health David Gillespie have launched a new telehealth initiative to remove barriers to mental health treatments and improve access to psychological services for residents in rural and remote areas. Under the new expanded ...