Fully vaccinated Australians are becoming sick again as Omicron's newest mutations cause a surge in COVID cases across all states. Experts worry that sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5, coupled with low influenza immunity in the community, will increase the strain on ...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has pressed the federal government to step up its COVID-19 vaccine dose donation efforts as the existing $300 million Pacific support package is due to expire in June. During the pandemic, the ...

Aged care residents, people who are unvaccinated and other at-risk communities will be among the first in the country to receive a newly approved at-home COVID-19 treatment. Antiviral pill Lageviro, also known as molnupiravir, was recently listed on the Pharmaceutical ...

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 ...

Doctors and nurses are joining the war on waste after disturbing images reveal a grim plastic waste problem that has been made worse by the Covid pandemic. The scale of the problem — about 70 million pieces of plastic in landfill — ...

With reports of nurses in New York burning their scrubs in protest against vaccine mandates and footage of workers protesting in Melbourne against lockdown, the divide between 'vaccine mindsets' is growing. Around 90 per cent of health workers in Australia ...

Twenty-six-year-old Gabby Cleophas was in the first semester of her nursing diploma when the pandemic first came to Australia. Just over a year and a half later, she now works in the centre of one of Queensland's mass vaccination hubs. ...

A Sydney doctor has declared “pre-Covid life has died” as he made an impassioned plea for the nation to get vaccinated as the only way of returning to some form of normality. In a now viral Facebook post, Sacha Kepreotis described ...

A coalition of six organisations, including the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Foundation (AMNF) and the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA), have released a joint statement urging Minister Hunt to consider a nurse-led vaccination model. Under the plan, 250 ...

An ex-nurse and conspiracy theorist has called for doctors and nurses to be hanged in a stunning anti-vaccination speech in front of thousands of protesters in London over the weekend.  Kate Shemirani compared NHS doctors and nurses to Nazis executed ...