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• From AI to aged care: Why health leadership is becoming healthcare's most important skill 09-09-2026

  Across Australia, healthcare organisations are facing unprecedented transformation. Artificial intelligence is changing clinical decision-making. Telehealth is reshaping patient access. Community expectations continue to grow. Regulatory environments

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• Patients with chronic health woes plea for end to tax 09-09-2026

  Health care professionals practising a niche specialty aimed at alleviating chronic conditions are calling for the removal of a tax they say disadvantages their patients, who have decended on Canberra to plead their case. Exercise physiologists vi

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• Mental health 'stripped away' amid rolling disasters 09-09-2026

  Farmer Jane Polson lost more than 100 cattle in a historic flood, just one week before she had a baby. Four years later, her family's dairy operation on the NSW mid-north coast was hit by a more severe flood, which gutted four farmhouses and d

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• Heart disease injection edges industry closer to cure 09-09-2026

  A world-first injection that reverses a genetic form of heart disease could soon provide a treatment alternative to transplants, medication and implantable heart devices. Researchers from Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne have

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• A woman has told how maggots were found in a wound in her mother's heel 08-09-2026

  A woman has wept while telling the aged care royal commission how maggots were found in a wound in her late mother's heel due to neglect by staff. A woman has told how maggots were found in a wound in her mother's heel shortly before her d

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• The Patient I Still Think About: voices from across the lifespan 08-09-2026

  We asked three physiotherapists to share a patient encounter that stayed with them -- one that changed how they practise. Names and identifying details have been changed. "I kept treating the knee. I should have been treating the fear."[

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• Dementia and Movement: The Role of Physiotherapy in Non-Pharmacological Care 08-09-2026

  According to Dementia Australia, there are an estimated 446,500 Australians living with dementia in 2026, a figure projected to reach 812,500 by 2054. As aged care demand grows under the Support at Home program, physiotherapists across all settings w

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• The Still Point: A Reflection on Presence in Midwifery Practice 08-09-2026

  There is a moment in every birth that no monitor captures. It comes before the pushing, sometimes before the labour is even established. It is the moment a woman looks at you and decides whether she trusts you. It does not take long. Women are rea

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• Midwifery Care for Women with Gestational Diabetes: Beyond Blood Sugar 08-09-2026

  A diagnosis of gestational diabetes lands differently for every woman. For some it is expected, even anticipated. For others it arrives as a shock mid-pregnancy, triggering anxiety, guilt, and a sudden flood of information about glucose targets, diet

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• Recognising and Responding to Fetal Growth Restriction: The Midwife's Role 08-09-2026

  Not every small baby is a baby in trouble. But some are, and the difference matters enormously. Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is one of the most significant and preventable contributors to stillbirth in Australia, yet it remains chronically underdet

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