Hospital patients are more likely to die within 30 days of admission if they eat less than a quarter of the food they are offered or are already malnourished. This one of the key findings of recent research that looked ...

Low blood pressure and abnormally rapid breathing are two main indicators that a person presenting in an emergency department is at an elevated risk of deteriorating and dying in the short term. That is a central finding of a Deakin University ...

Advances in wireless connectivity are helping to deliver better care for patients and greater efficiency for clinicians and staff within hospitals. More medical devices and applications are being attached to hospital-wide Wi-Fi networks to automate updates of electronic health records ...

A participatory care model out of Tasmania was the focus of recent research that delved into job satisfaction of care workers and functional decline of older people. The study evaluated a program to prevent functional decline of older, community-dwelling people, ...

Australian researchers have developed a blood test that may soon be used to detect Parkinson’s disease, as well as a range of other neurodegenerative disorders. La Trobe professor of microbiology Paul Fisher said so far, the blood test has been ...