A nurse turned escort attempted to extort hundreds of dollars from her clients while threatening to expose their actions to their wives and girlfriends if they didn’t pay up, a court has been told. Chloe Jessica Earle dabbed at her eyes as ...

The heartbroken parents of a seven-year-old girl who died after waiting hours in a Perth emergency department have revealed they plan to chase millions of dollars in damages from the hospital that let them down. Aishwarya Aswath died from organ ...

Increased reports of violent assaults against nurses have shed light on a different type of epidemic facing the country’s front line workers. In NSW, Bureau of Crime statistics show assaults against healthcare staff have risen by 55 per cent since ...

Curtin university researchers will be carrying out a first-of-its-kind examination of stillbirths among Aboriginal families in a project supported by the federal government.  Led by Associate Professor Carrington Shepherd from the Curtin medical school, the project will involve researchers and ...

If the Australian healthcare sector was a country, it would be the fifth-largest carbon emitter on the entire planet. Experts say that nurses, making up the largest group of healthcare workers, can use their trusted voice in the community to ...

A WA nurse has been arrested on suspicion of 'administering' fake COVID-19 vaccinations. The 51-year-old female RN has been charged in "relation to the fraudulent recording of vaccine information" according to a statement from the Western Australia Police Force. On ...

When clinical midwife Jan Becker first stepped into a busy delivery ward in sub-Saharan Africa eight years ago, it was both beautiful and horrifying.  Every woman who gave birth was in the same room, on a sponge rubber bed, with ...

For many, keeping positive and optimistic has been key to navigating the uncertainties and perils of the COVID-19 pandemic. But those harbouring an obsession with staying upbeat, or viewing negative emotions as a failure or weakness, may have fallen into ...

Fed up with the tonnes of unused medical supplies thrown out by her local hospital, theatre nurse Claire Lane devised a way to reduce landfills and give aid to those who need it. The 33-year-old Brisbane mother collects and redistributes ...

The medical literature has detailed child abuse for over a century, from child slavery to battered children and shaken babies. Since the 1970s evidence of specific inflicted injuries has been documented by radiologists such as John Caffey and pediatricians such ...