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Younger Aussies are increasingly neglecting sun safety
Date of Posting: 17-11-2025
Younger Australians are increasingly choosing not to cover up when heading outdoors to enjoy the sun - a trend raising concern among health officials as summer approaches. Data released on Monday reveals just 26 per cent of people aged 13 to 28 co Read More...
State's bid for more cash in public hospital crisis fix
Date of Posting: 17-11-2025
Pressure continues to mount for federal government intervention on the under-fire health network, with one state claiming it has reneged on a pledge to boost funding. Tasmania's premier said people were becoming increasingly stranded in the st Read More...
Educating the Educators: How Teaching Roles Are Evolving in Health Care
Date of Posting: 16-11-2025
When healthcare students imagine their future, most picture patients, not podiums. Yet behind every competent nurse, physio, or psychologist is an educator who helped them get there — often someone who still balances teaching with clinical prac Read More...
The Future of Clinical Simulation: How Technology Is Redefining Health Training
Date of Posting: 16-11-2025
In a bright skills lab at the University of Queensland, a patient suddenly goes into cardiac arrest. Alarms sound, students rush to act, and tension rises — until the instructor calls “pause.” The patient, of course, isn’t rea Read More...
Lifelong Learning in Healthcare: Why Upskilling Never Stops
Date of Posting: 16-11-2025
If there’s one universal truth in healthcare, it’s that learning never really ends. Whether you’re a newly registered nurse, a senior physio, or a hospital department head, the pace of change in medicine and care delivery means toda Read More...
New Program Helps GPs Rethink Antidepressant Use to Improve Youth Mental Health Conversations
Last Updated: 16-11-2025
With one in three young Australians experiencing a mental health condition each year, and suicide remaining the leading cause of death for 16 to 24-year-olds, the way clinicians approach antidepressant use in teens and young adults has never been m Read More...
Stroke victim's ancestors assist in miracle recovery
Date of Posting: 16-11-2025
When Peter Sykes 'died', he found himself in a room full of spirits he recognised as relatives guiding him towards an open door. But something, or someone, told him it was not his time and after a month-long coma following a stroke, he wok Read More...
Major cause of death reaches lowest level in 47 years
Date of Posting: 16-11-2025
Deaths from coronary heart disease in Australia have fallen to their lowest rate in almost 50 years, with dementia overtaking it as the nation's leading cause of death. Australian Bureau of Statistics data released on Friday shows coronary hea Read More...
Wild form of polio found in German sewage sample
Date of Posting: 13-11-2025
The wild form of virus behind polio has been detected in wastewater sampling in Germany, the country's main public health body says in a setback for efforts to rid the world of the deadly disease. The findings come more than 30 years after the Read More...
Cancer survival gap widens for disadvantaged patients
Date of Posting: 13-11-2025
Cancer patients in disadvantaged areas are dying at higher rates than those in privileged communities as differences in survivorship grow. Medical advancements have significantly improved Australians' survival rates from one in two dying from Read More...
'No link' between paracetamol in pregnancy and autism
Date of Posting: 11-11-2025
There is no clear link between taking paracetamol in pregnancy and autism and ADHD in children, a comprehensive review has found. Researchers trawled all studies on the issue and concluded they were low quality, with "low to critically low&qu Read More...
'Difficult reading': depth of women's pain laid bare
Date of Posting: 10-11-2025
More women will get immediate pain relief while being fitted with contraceptive devices after a landmark inquiry revealed roughly half live with pain every day. The Australian-first inquiry into women's pain found medical gender bias and healt Read More...
Fatigue, brain fog tied to deficiencies going untreated
Date of Posting: 10-11-2025
Australian women are facing a silent epidemic of fatigue, brain fog and illness often caused by iron and vitamin D deficiencies, with experts saying early testing is critical to help treat it. More than one in five Australians overall are deficien Read More...
Aussies self-diagnosing mental health over the internet
Date of Posting: 10-11-2025
Australians are increasingly diagnosing themselves with complex mental health conditions after scrolling through social media or chatting with artificial intelligence in a shift experts say risks misdiagnosis, delayed treatment and worsening symptoms Read More...
'Unacceptable' gap found in whooping cough controls
Date of Posting: 09-11-2025
Hospitals are sleeping on an opportunity to vaccinate more Australians against whooping cough, a disease that's infecting the population at record rates. A probe from the Immunisation Foundation of Australia finds few hospitals are stocking a Read More...
Study links signs of poor heart health to dementia risk
Date of Posting: 09-11-2025
Middle-aged adults with biological signs of poor heart health are more likely to go on to be diagnosed with dementia in later life, according to a new study. These biological signals could be evident up to 25 years before a dementia diagnosis, res Read More...
Women's voices amplify push for ovarian cancer test
Date of Posting: 09-11-2025
Ovarian cancer is the deadliest form of the disease for women yet there is no early detection test that would save countless lives. For restaurateur Michelle Grand-Milkovic, a routine follow-up after surgery for a hernia revealed she had stage 3, Read More...
Burnout vs. Balance: How Physios Can Build Lasting Energy for Their Careers
Last Updated: 08-11-2025
Spot the early signs of burnout and discover practical strategies to protect your energy, set boundaries, and sustain your passion for physiotherapy. It’s Monday morning. The waiting room is already full, your first patient is running late, Read More...
Facing Anger, Finding Calm: Lessons from the Frontline of Physio Care
Date of Posting: 08-11-2025
When patients’ frustration boils over, physiotherapists need more than clinical skill. They need calm, strategy, and support. While most physiotherapy sessions are collaborative and positive, occasional flare-ups of aggression do happen &mda Read More...
The Ethics of Speaking Up: Navigating Team Tensions and Moral Courage in Physiotherapy
Last Updated: 08-11-2025
You’ve been there. A colleague skips part of their notes because the next patient’s already waiting. A supervisor urges quicker discharges, even when someone still looks unsteady on their feet.[subscribe] A team chat drifts into sharin Read More...
Strong Backs, Safe Hands: Ergonomic Habits That Add Years to Your Physio Career
Date of Posting: 08-11-2025
Simple ergonomic habits can prevent strain and protect physios’ backs, hands, and posture — helping clinicians stay strong for the long haul. Physiotherapists spend their careers keeping others moving — but their own bodies often Read More...
Consent and Documentation - Best Practice for Physios in All Settings
Date of Posting: 08-11-2025
Every physiotherapist understands the need for consent and notes — yet many regulatory complaints arise from exactly these areas. The problem isn’t bad intent; it’s inconsistency. Time pressure, assumptions, or casual shortcuts c Read More...
When to Refer - Recognising Grey Zones and Red Flags
Last Updated: 08-11-2025
You’ve treated the same patient for three sessions. The pain pattern doesn’t fit, progress is slow, and something about their story makes you uneasy. They’re not deteriorating — but not improving either. Do you keep going or s Read More...
The Culture Cure: How Leaders and Teams Create Truly Supportive Workplaces
Last Updated: 07-11-2025
How leadership, fair caseloads, and open communication can transform culture — and create physiotherapy workplaces where staff truly thrive. Physiotherapists work in environments where the demands are high: full appointment books, patients w Read More...
Understanding Scope of Practice - Staying Compliant While Advocating for Patients
Last Updated: 07-11-2025
Working within your scope isn’t just a regulatory box to tick — it’s the foundation of safe, ethical, and confident physiotherapy practice. Here’s how to stay compliant while still advocating effectively for your patients. Read More...
Cultural Diversity in Aged Care: Meeting the Needs of CALD and Indigenous Communities
Last Updated: 07-11-2025
On a Tuesday afternoon in Melbourne’s west, the dining hall of one aged care home fills with the scent of garlic, lemon and oregano. Volunteers from the local Greek community are serving spanakopita alongside residents’ usual meals, spark Read More...
Innovative Housing Models: Co-housing, Intergenerational Living, and Community Villages
Last Updated: 07-11-2025
For most Australians, the phrase “aged care” still brings to mind large residential homes, hospital-like corridors, and shared dining halls. But across the country — and around the world — new housing models are emerging that Read More...
The Workforce Challenge: Retaining Compassion in a Stretched Aged Care Sector
Date of Posting: 07-11-2025
Australia’s aged care system rests on the shoulders of more than 400,000 workers — nurses, carers, allied health professionals, lifestyle coordinators and domestic staff. They are the human core of a sector under constant pressure. Yet wh Read More...
Mental health crisis unfolding in ED departments
Date of Posting: 07-11-2025
A lack of funding and workforce shortages are adding immense pressure on public hospitals, leading to record numbers of mental health presentations in emergency departments. Patients requiring urgent mental health care are spending an average of s Read More...
Research fund gap risks pandemic and biothreat defences
Date of Posting: 07-11-2025
Australia could be left exposed to biowarfare or a new pandemic if medical research funding promises are broken, researchers warn. Independent MP and former neurologist Monique Ryan joined academics and doctors calling for the delivery of billions Read More...
Record wait times expose mental health hospital crisis
Date of Posting: 07-11-2025
Public hospitals are struggling to cope with mounting pressure, as limited resources and a growing number of mental health presentations push the system to its limits. Patients requiring urgent mental health care are spending an average of seven h Read More...
Australian views of mental health mapped for first time
Date of Posting: 06-11-2025
Mary Baker was a bright and witty student whose competitive spirit matched her love for horse-riding and playing water polo. But beneath the surface the high-achieving teenager, from Albury on the NSW southern border, was masking an internal strug Read More...
Hospital death linked to lab's cancer diagnosis bungle
Date of Posting: 06-11-2025
A man's death from hospital-acquired pneumonia has been linked to a "disastrous" laboratory error that led to a mistaken lung cancer diagnosis and unnecessary surgery. South Australian Deputy State Coroner Ian White has delivered his Read More...
COVID jabs cut the risk of heart complications in kids
Date of Posting: 06-11-2025
Children are at half the risk of a heart complication if they're vaccinated against COVID-19 compared to being infected with the virus. Scientists, in the largest study of its kind in children, reviewed the health records of nearly 14 million Read More...
England imposes mandatory bird housing over bird flu
Date of Posting: 05-11-2025
The United Kingdom has imposed a mandatory housing measure for birds covering the whole of England, effective on Thursday, in a bid to slow the spread of bird flu. The disease is spreading rapidly in Europe, with the highest number of countries in Read More...
Halsey hospitalised for 'minor medical emergency'
Date of Posting: 05-11-2025
Halsey was rushed to hospital after suffering a "minor medical emergency". The 31-year-old singer revealed that she was in the emergency room until 6am following her gig the previous night, but assured fans in Boston she would be perform Read More...
Skipping breakfast does not harm thinking skills: study
Date of Posting: 05-11-2025
Skipping breakfast or another meal while fasting does not slow down thinking skills, medical researchers say. Intermittent fasting, which involves not eating for several consecutive hours each day, has become increasingly popular, with many people Read More...
Remote medic named NT Australian of the Year
Date of Posting: 04-11-2025
A volunteer paramedic and youth worker has been named the Northern Territory's 2026 Australian of the Year. Felix Ho was on Monday named the 2026 award recipient for his service to remote communities as a medical practitioner.[subscribe] Th Read More...
'Silent killer' - pancreatic cancer cases on the rise
Date of Posting: 04-11-2025
When doctors told Ron Prouse he had pancreatic cancer, the 61-year-old Adelaide father-of-eight thought he'd been handed a death sentence. "I'd heard about this stuff - this is the stuff that you die from," he tells AAP.[subscrib Read More...
Historic aged care reforms spark concern
Date of Posting: 04-11-2025
Once-in-a-generation aged care reforms have taken effect, promising to improve the quality of care for older Australians, although industry leaders have issued warnings about the challenges ahead. New rules under the Aged Care Act will now require Read More...
