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Spotlight on Neurophysio: Navigating Complex Rehab with Purpose and Precision
Last Updated: 09-07-2025
Neurophysiotherapy is a specialty built on complexity. It requires clinical rigour, creative problem-solving, and a deep sense of purpose. Whether working with stroke survivors, children with cerebral palsy, or individuals with progressive neurologic Read More...
What It Takes: Women's Health Physio
Last Updated: 09-07-2025
Women’s health physiotherapy is more than pelvic floor exercises. It’s a dynamic and evolving specialty that supports women across the lifespan — from adolescence to post-menopause — through pregnancy, postnatal recovery, chro Read More...
Breath by Breath: The Quiet Impact of Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy
Last Updated: 09-07-2025
Cardiorespiratory physiotherapy is one of the most foundational — yet often under-recognised — specialties in the profession. From intensive care units to pulmonary rehab classes, these clinicians are experts in helping people breathe, mo Read More...
Becoming a Paediatric Physio: Unique challenges -- and big rewards
Last Updated: 09-07-2025
Why Choose Paediatrics? Working with children offers a profoundly different rhythm from adult physiotherapy. Rather than restoring lost function, the focus is often on helping children develop movement abilities for the first time. This requires Read More...
Doctor says heart failure caused Michael Madsen's death
Date of Posting: 09-07-2025
Michael Madsen died from heart failure. The Reservoir Dogs actor was found dead at his home in Malibu, California, at the age of 67 last week, and his cardiologist has now confirmed the cause of his passing.[subscribe] The unnamed doctor told N Read More...
Unusual bee attack in French town leaves 24 injured
Date of Posting: 08-07-2025
A unusual attack by bees in the French town of Aurillac has left 24 people injured, including three in critical condition. The Prefecture of Cantal, in south-central France, said passers-by were stung over about 30 minutes on Sunday morning.[subsc Read More...
Teachers, business owners granted COVID vaccine appeal
Date of Posting: 08-07-2025
Teachers sacked for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine and small business owners impacted by the mandate have been granted an appeal against the Queensland government. The Queensland Court of Appeal ruled on Tuesday in favour of seven teachers a Read More...
Data registry funds plea in fight against MND
Date of Posting: 07-07-2025
A rare debilitating disease that eats away at the nervous system to shut down the body claims the lives of two people in Australia each day and two more are diagnosed. Motor neurone disease (MND) robs individuals of the ability to walk, talk, swal Read More...
At-home drug test offers workers more autonomy
Date of Posting: 07-07-2025
A growing drug problem in Australian workplaces is prompting a shift in how businesses manage safety and wellbeing, with a new push for discreet, at-home drug testing aimed at preventing accidents before they happen. And the broader trend is worry Read More...
Man dies of rare untreatable virus after bat bite
Date of Posting: 04-07-2025
A man has died after contracting an extremely rare, rabies-like bat virus. NSW Health confirmed the man in his 50s died on Thursday after being bitten by a bat several months ago.[subscribe] The northern NSW man was the first ever recorded case Read More...
WHO urges higher taxes on sugary drinks and alcohol
Date of Posting: 03-07-2025
The World Health Organisation is pushing countries to raise the prices of sugary drinks, alcohol and tobacco by 50 per cent over the next 10 years through taxation. The United Nations health agency said the move would help cut consumption of the p Read More...
Man critical after catching rare bat lyssavirus virus
Date of Posting: 03-07-2025
A man is fighting for his life in hospital after contracting only the fourth case in Australia of a rabies-like bat virus. The northern NSW man was bitten by a bat "several months" ago and had received treatment for the injury.[subscribe Read More...
AI gives birth to fresh hope against male infertility
Date of Posting: 02-07-2025
Artificial intelligence could make all the difference for would-be parents undergoing IVF and who are struggling with the most severe forms of male infertility. The first Australian study of new technology has led to one live birth and five pregna Read More...
The disease impacting Indigenous kids' development
Date of Posting: 02-07-2025
Listening, speech and language skills are essential for children to thrive but for many Indigenous children, ear disease is impacting their ability to connect. More than a third of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children experience "fl Read More...
Metabolomics Study Links Gut Microbiome to Type 2 Diabetes
Date of Posting: 02-07-2025
MORRISVILLE, N.C., July 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Metabolon, Inc., the global leader in providing metabolomics solutions advancing a wide variety of life science research, diagnostic, therapeutic development, and precision medicine applications, today Read More...
Major sunscreen brands accused of reef greenwashing
Date of Posting: 01-07-2025
The makers of two popular sunscreen brands allegedly misled environmentally conscious shoppers by labelling products as "reef friendly". Banana Boat and Hawaiian Tropic sunscreens contained allegedly widespread false and potentially misl Read More...
Scientists create functional human islets in 3D printing breakthrough for type 1 diabetes treatment
Date of Posting: 01-07-2025
LONDON, June 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A team of international scientists has made a major leap forward in diabetes research by successfully 3D printing functional human islets using a novel bioink. Presented today at the ESOT Congress 2025, the new t Read More...
Nurses threaten stop work action over pay demands
Date of Posting: 30-06-2025
Nurses and midwives will stop answering phones, attending meetings and entering data if a state government does not deliver "nation-leading" wage increases. Queensland's Liberal National government has two days to meet the Nurses and Read More...
The $45,000 golden prescription to heal rural health
Date of Posting: 30-06-2025
Unlimited fresh air and blue skies, a daily walk to work, a healthy drop of fine wine, two NRL games each year, an extra $45,000 in the bank and an idyllic life in "God's country". This is what the Mudgee community has prescribed to Read More...
Multiple crises lead to spike in mental health issues
Date of Posting: 29-06-2025
Words like depression and anxiety can be overused or even trivialised. People talk about feeling uneasy about a text they sent, or a job interview or a first date; or down because their team lost or their favourite coffee shop is closing. But deep Read More...
WHO says probe into COVID-19 virus origin still ongoing
Date of Posting: 29-06-2025
The World Health Organisation says efforts to determine the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, are still ongoing and incomplete. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said "all hypotheses must remain on the tab Read More...
Poor sleep, menopause flare-ups: health in warmer world
Date of Posting: 29-06-2025
Extreme heat is the world's biggest weather-related killer but it's also responsible for a host of other health and wellbeing niggles that are not as well understood. Bad sleep, worse productivity and exacerbated menopausal symptoms are am Read More...
HIV transmission in Papua New Guinea at crisis levels
Date of Posting: 27-06-2025
As transmission rates soar, Papua New Guinea has declared a national HIV crisis to try and galvanise action to prevent the spread of the virus. UNAIDS and the World Health Organisation estimate the Pacific nation recorded 11,000 new cases last yea Read More...
Career blocks for female scientists put under scrutiny
Date of Posting: 27-06-2025
Gender discrimination, ageism and lack of job security are among the obstacles causing many female science researchers to exit the sector prematurely. It's estimated Australia could lose up to 40 per cent of its cancer research workforce unles Read More...
Sleep standards overhaul to prevent shock infant deaths
Date of Posting: 27-06-2025
A world-first push to tighten safety standards around mattress firmness is hoped to prevent infants from dying in their sleep. Australia was the first nation to establish firmness ratings on mattresses in 2013 and they have since been adopted worl Read More...
US vaccine panel eyes childhood immunisations
Date of Posting: 26-06-2025
The vaccine advisory panel reconstituted by US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr said it would study the schedule of childhood and adolescent immunisations and review the use of older vaccines. Kennedy, who has a long history of sowing doubt ab Read More...
New dads mental struggle can impact children's health
Date of Posting: 26-06-2025
Early parenthood expectations can often be overly optimistic, anticipated as a magical time for a family getting to know their new baby. But for Craig Anderson, mental health challenges meant his early years of fatherhood were a nightmare.[s Read More...
Warning as guide for toxic chemicals in water updated
Date of Posting: 26-06-2025
A vast majority of Australia's drinking water supplies meet new "forever chemicals" safety limits, but an expert warns more research needs to be done to understand true safe levels. PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a Read More...
Nation's 'failing' mental health system needs overhaul
Date of Posting: 25-06-2025
Australia's failing mental health and suicide prevention system needs reforms to fix problems including affordability and access, the government's independent advisory body says. The interim Productivity Commission report, released on Wedn Read More...
ACT budget on life support amid health funding woes
Date of Posting: 25-06-2025
The ACT budget has a health problem. When Treasurer Chris Steel, fresh in the job after Labor's seventh straight election win, provided a mid-year budget update in February, he was forced to make an embarrassing admission.[subscribe] The te Read More...
Cell Study by SDU and PKU Researchers Reveals Novel Mechanism to Regulate Glucose Metabolism
Date of Posting: 24-06-2025
JINAN, China, June 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 29, 2025, Professor Sun Jinpeng's team and Professor Yu Xiao's team at Shandong University, collaborating with Professor Jiang Changtao from Peking University, Professor Pang Yanli, and Profe Read More...
Nurses rally over sick bubs 'parked in cramped unit'
Date of Posting: 24-06-2025
Nurses and parents of premature babies are battling to find space in a tight intensive care unit, using a former storeroom at one of Australia's busiest hospitals. About 80 nurses at Westmead Hospital supported their overworked colleagues from Read More...
Australia's Optometry Clinics Are Quietly Rethinking Their Role--Here's How
Last Updated: 23-06-2025
For decades, optometry clinics in Australia were viewed primarily as places to get glasses, contact lenses, or routine eye tests. But today, a quiet shift is underway—one that’s expanding the role of optometrists beyond basic vision corre Read More...
Australia's Healthcare Flexibility Boom: Is the Future Mobile?
Last Updated: 23-06-2025
Australia’s healthcare system is experiencing a quiet revolution. While telehealth stole headlines during the pandemic, another form of flexible care has been gaining momentum: mobile healthcare. From allied health services delivered at home to Read More...
'Backbone of health': new plan for rural maternity care
Date of Posting: 23-06-2025
An outback woman was fully prepared for a four-hour trip to the closest hospital to give birth. Living in Lightning Ridge, in far western NSW, the expectant mum was pragmatic about the long journey ahead.[subscribe] But she had not anticipated Read More...
'Game changer' diabetes pill a step closer after trials
Date of Posting: 23-06-2025
Game-changing diabetes pills could hit Australian shelves within years, offering an alternative to popular injectable treatments like Ozempic that have been plagued with supply issues. That's the prediction from Australian diabetes experts, as Read More...
Coming out an 'indelible memory' with lasting impacts
Date of Posting: 22-06-2025
Coming out as LGBTQI to friends and family can be one of the most vulnerable times in a person's life. Despite growing acceptance culturally, research shows almost half - 49 per cent - of young people who come out experience heartbreaking pare Read More...
Indians strike a pose for world yoga day
Date of Posting: 22-06-2025
Tens of thousands of people across India have stretched in public parks and on sandy beaches to mark the 11th International Day of Yoga. The mass yoga sessions were held on Saturday in many Indian states, where crowds attempted various poses and p Read More...
How one wellness habit redeemed a life of addiction
Date of Posting: 22-06-2025
At 23, John Ogilvie hit rock bottom. After years of substance abuse, he made the painful decision to end his life because he felt like a burden to everyone around him. [subscribe] Thankfully he survived and that moment became a turning point. Read More...
Country Clinics, City-Grade Care: How Digital Health is Transforming Rural Australia
Last Updated: 22-06-2025
For decades, regional Australians have faced a stark health divide. Long travel times to see a GP, months-long waits for specialists, and chronic under-resourcing have all made rural healthcare one of the country’s most stubborn challenges. But Read More...
