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New study shows blood pressure fluctuation is an indicator of dementia
Date of Posting: 19-07-2021
A joint Australian and US study has found fluctuating blood pressure is an indicator of cognitive decline and dementia in older people. Fluctuations in high blood pressure in older adults, particularly in men, is associated with an increased risk Read More...
What does MRI scanning of the lumbar spine tell us, and should we be recommending them?
Last Updated: 19-07-2021
Writen by Dr. John Panagopoulos, PhD; B. App.Sci (Phty); B. Med Sci. As a clinical physiotherapist who has been treating low back pain sufferers for over 24 years, I can remember a time when MRI wasn’t around.[subscribe] Then in the early Read More...
Attracting healthcare candidates in a challenging market
Last Updated: 19-07-2021
Featuring SEEK’s Head of Healthcare, James Duncan The last 18 months have placed an added burden on our healthcare workforce, and this has presented significant resourcing challenges as the industry was already at capacity before the pandemi Read More...
Victorian women support idea of egg freezing as employee benefit
Last Updated: 19-07-2021
A Monash University study into the concept of egg freezing as an employee benefit has revealed almost half of the 656 Victorian women surveyed believe it would be appropriate for employers to have it on offer. However, while some participants saw Read More...
How technology has advanced orthotic healthcare
Last Updated: 19-07-2021
Research & Development There are thousands of biomechanical engineers, biomedical engineers, orthotists and industrial designers working in universities, private laboratories and workshops to explore new technology and refine existing concepts Read More...
Pharmacies will soon take part in the COVID-19 vaccination program
Date of Posting: 16-07-2021
Pharmacies will slowly and steadily take part in the COVID-19 vaccination program, but only as supplies of vaccines grow, says the prime minister. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has admitted supplies are not yet sufficient to bring large numbers of Read More...
Western Australia reinstates hard border to Victoria
Date of Posting: 16-07-2021
Western Australia's decision to further strengthen COVID-19 restrictions will leave the state with a hard border to all of NSW, Victoria and Queensland. Western Australia will reintroduce a hard border to Victoria, effectively blocking residen Read More...
Masks is back once again in Victoria
Date of Posting: 15-07-2021
Masks will be compulsory in all indoor settings in Victoria after the state recorded 11 new COVID-19 cases, all stemming from the NSW outbreak. Masks will once again be compulsory indoors in Victoria, as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of the Read More...
New Zealand leaders ponder route back to the world
Date of Posting: 15-07-2021
A team headed by epidemiologist Sir David Skegg will guide New Zealand's pathway back to the world, with the prime minister to release its advice next month. New Zealand's leaders are dragging their feet on a reconnection plan with the res Read More...
Greater Sydney and surrounds will be on lockdown for another two weeks
Date of Posting: 15-07-2021
Millions of people living in Greater Sydney and surrounds will be locked down for at least five weeks after NSW recorded another 97 local COVID-19 cases. The lockdown of Greater Sydney and surrounds has been extended by at least two weeks, but the Read More...
First Nations people urgently need to get vaccinated, but aren't being consulted on the rollout plan
Last Updated: 14-07-2021
This year, just five cases of COVID-19 have been recorded among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. This good result is due to both significant government support measures and prompt and effective action by Aboriginal a Read More...
Financial support for Sydney lockdown
Date of Posting: 14-07-2021
Workers and bosses suffering during Sydney's lockdown will be able to access more payments and support after three record-breaking days of local transmission. Financial support for workers and businesses should give all Sydneysiders the peace Read More...
NSW government let residents decide if they are essential workers
Date of Posting: 14-07-2021
NSW residents are being urged to use their common sense to decide for themselves if they are essential workers as the state struggles with a COVID-19 outbreak. NSW has baulked at defining "essential work" during Sydney's COVID-19 loc Read More...
Physios take their work on the road to drive change
Last Updated: 14-07-2021
Physiotherapists Clare Austin and David Dimech improve health care accessibility Australia-wide by taking their work on the road – literally – via a self-converted mobile home bus. The adventurous duo makes up Project Physio, a mobile Read More...
Researchers show muscle relaxants are ineffective and may be unsafe for low back pain
Date of Posting: 13-07-2021
Australian researchers have found muscle relaxants are largely ineffective and potentially unsafe when treating low back pain, despite being widely prescribed. Published today in the British Medical Journal, research by Neuroscience Research Austr Read More...
Sydney could remain locked down for weeks
Date of Posting: 13-07-2021
As five million people in Greater Sydney endure a third week of lockdown, Deputy Premier John Barilaro is warning the situation could stretch out for weeks. Greater Sydney and surrounds could remain locked down for weeks as authorities battle to d Read More...
Sydney COVID-19 outbreak has breached the Victorian border
Date of Posting: 13-07-2021
Victoria has detected two new COVID-19 cases among a family of four in Melbourne's northwest who recently returned from Sydney. Sydney's COVID-19 outbreak has breached the Victorian border again, with two members of a Melbourne family test Read More...
Queensland premier orders Queenslanders home
Date of Posting: 13-07-2021
The Queensland premier says it's safe for the state to import interstate NRL teams, while telling Queenslanders in regional NSW to come home now. The Queensland premier has told residents in NSW to return home while they still can, warning Syd Read More...
'Take pride in it' - the extra, silent workload of an Aboriginal nurse
Last Updated: 13-07-2021
Despite the challenges and additional responsibility that comes with working as an Aboriginal nurse, Lesley Salem still reckons it is “the most exciting job on the face of the Earth”. Ms Salem, who currently works as a generalist nurse Read More...
Australia's ageing population and its impact on nursing
Last Updated: 12-07-2021
Thanks to rapid advances in technology and modern medical breakthroughs, Australians can anticipate a higher life expectancy. In fact, people are living longer than ever before. But with longer lives comes an ageing population, and that means a si Read More...
Young Australians are urged to get AstraZeneca
Date of Posting: 12-07-2021
Younger Australians are being urged to consider getting the the AstraZeneca vaccine as Sydney's COVID-19 situation is set to worsen. The head of Australia's vaccine task force has encouraged young people living in Sydney to get vaccinated Read More...
Doctors and nurses to train in helping rape victims
Date of Posting: 12-07-2021
In an Australia-first, healthcare and frontline workers will be trained to respond to disclosures of sexual violence in an accredited university-run course. Doctors and nurses will be trained by experts in how to respond when patients disclose sex Read More...
ACU receives $1.9M for nurse training ward
Last Updated: 09-07-2021
The Australian Catholic University (ACU) has begun construction on a $1.9 million-dollar nurse training ward in Ballarat, doubling the university’s capacity for pre-clinical training of nurses. The new nurse training ward is funded by the Vi Read More...
Australia is set to trial home quarantine
Date of Posting: 09-07-2021
Foreign Minister Marise Payne says South Australia and NSW will likely be the first states to trial home quarantine for fully vaccinated returned travellers. Australia is set to trial home quarantine for fully vaccinated overseas arrivals with NSW Read More...
Australian vaccine expert urged government to share coronavirus vaccine info
Date of Posting: 09-07-2021
Australian National University regulation expert Susan Sell has called for the federal government to waive intellectual property protections for vaccines. Australia is being urged to share complex coronavirus vaccine production methods with poorer Read More...
New Zealand leaders aghast at UK COVID-19 moves
Date of Posting: 08-07-2021
Mounting COVID-19 cases in the United Kingdom could see New Zealand slap a flight ban on the coronavirus-stricken Brits. New Zealand's leaders have expressed dismay towards the UK's handling of COVID-19, and could put the country on a no-f Read More...
Aged care providers and unions want aged care staff jabs
Date of Posting: 08-07-2021
Unions and aged care providers have formed an alliance to urge the Morrison government to speed up vaccinations for aged care workers. Aged care providers and unions have joined forces to demand the federal government lift its game on vaccinating Read More...
Midwives and the pandemic - 'you become everything to a patient'
Last Updated: 07-07-2021
Loneliness, anxiety and fear of the unknown. That’s how many mothers have felt as they prepare to give birth during the pandemic – making the support and care of a midwife more important than ever. “With the limited visitors that Read More...
Businesses in Sydney devastated about lockdown extension
Date of Posting: 07-07-2021
Businesses and workers in NSW are "devastated" that the widespread lockdown will be extended by a week in a bid to crush the latest COVID outbreak. Sydney's hospitality, entertainment and travel businesses are "devastated" Read More...
Restrictions in Sydney has been extended
Last Updated: 07-07-2021
A stay-at-home order has been extended for another week for Greater Sydney and surrounds, with schools to return to online learning next week. RESTRICTIONS IN NSW EXTENDED UNTIL MIDNIGHT ON JULY 16[subscribe] * Lockdown for Sydney and surrounds Read More...
Study calls for changes to treatment for Indigenous mental health
Date of Posting: 07-07-2021
A University of Queensland study is calling for changes to the way depression is treated in Indigenous communities in Australia. UQ Rural Clinical School researcher Dr Bushra Nasir said the research has found that current treatments for Indigenous Read More...
Life after stroke: Chad's journey to independence
Date of Posting: 07-07-2021
When Chad Bridgman was 11 years old, he was struck down by a mystery bug which caused him to suffer a stroke and paralysed him on one side of his body. It took three emergency room visits and one painful month to discover that Chad had a rare Afri Read More...
Blood test for personalised cancer treatment
Last Updated: 07-07-2021
A blood test to help guide the treatment of oesophageal, stomach and bowel cancers will be evaluated in a new Flinders University trial set to get underway. The trial is thanks to a federal government grant of almost $2 million announced yesterday Read More...
Support for mandatory vaccination of residential aged care workers
Date of Posting: 07-07-2021
The Morrison Government is helping aged care workers get vaccinated as part of an $11 million grant program. Applications are now open for aged care providers to apply for the funding following recommendations mandatory vaccinations be introduced. Read More...
Disease 'surveillance network' to improve Indigenous health care
Date of Posting: 06-07-2021
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will benefit from the expansion of a University of Queensland-led health project aimed at improving clinical care within primary health care services nationally. The Improving surveillance infrastructur Read More...
Sydney is on high alert lockdown phase
Date of Posting: 06-07-2021
There are concerns about a growing COVID-19 cluster at a Sydney nursing home with five residents infected, amid reports a third staff member has the virus. NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard says the state is on "high alert" after the stat Read More...
Adelaide researchers fight deadly childhood cancer
Date of Posting: 05-07-2021
Adelaide oncologists will use $2.4 million of funding to investigate the causes and treatments for the deadliest and most common solid tumour in young children. Adelaide oncologists and researchers will use $2.4 million in funding to work with fam Read More...
Testing Australia's sewerage system to flush out COVID traces
Date of Posting: 05-07-2021
About 1000 wastewater tests to detect traces of COVID-19 are being conducted every week across Australia. The scientist in charge of testing Australia's sewerage system to flush out COVID traces admits the samples can be a little stinky.[subsc Read More...
Aged care nursing in the time of COVID-19: 'we are all family'
Last Updated: 02-07-2021
As the realities of COVID-19 become the new norm in aged care facilities, Parul Dhiman says her career in nursing is as rewarding as it has ever been. “Every day, every week, there is something that makes me think, ‘I have chosen the r Read More...
Should Australia vaccinate children against COVID-19?
Date of Posting: 02-07-2021
Experts suggest vaccination of children must be part of Australia’s exit strategy, especially with the Delta variant. As a result of the current Greater Sydney COVID-19 outbreak with the Delta variant, we have seen numerous school children e Read More...
