Banding together to beat loneliness
2018-11-14T10:48:16+00:00November 14th, 2018|
Loneliness affects more than half of Australians and has major impacts on health and happiness. It does not discriminate and peaks in early adulthood, in [...]
Awareness of antibiotic resistance is not enough
2018-11-14T10:48:09+00:00November 12th, 2018|
Australians are more aware of antibiotic resistance being a serious threat to their health, according to one study. This is despite other research showing that [...]
Member Alert: Your rights during the Royal Commission into aged care
2018-11-14T10:47:58+00:00November 8th, 2018|
In September, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the federal government would establish a Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety to examine the crisis [...]
Global Indigenous gathering focuses on future generations
2018-11-07T09:25:29+00:00November 7th, 2018|
A global Indigenous gathering to explore the issues and concerns facing Indigenous people in Australia and to garner international perspectives will be held in Sydney [...]
Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre on track
2018-11-07T09:25:54+00:00November 2nd, 2018|
In almost two years of operation, the Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre has secured more than $2.7 million in funding to help it drive high [...]
Participants needed to help multiple-birth families
2018-11-01T09:41:44+00:00October 30th, 2018|
Nurses and midwives are invited to fill out an online survey to help identify the most pressing health issues for multiple-birth families, reduce twin and multiple mortality [...]
Keeping active the best way to deal with low back pain
2018-11-01T09:41:58+00:00October 30th, 2018|
An education program on low back pain unveiled by NPS MedicineWise has dismissed the need for an X-ray, CT scan or MRI to manage the [...]
Pain management for people with dementia
2018-11-09T10:56:09+00:00October 29th, 2018|
The purpose of this article is to shed some light on the importance of pain management, to examine major barriers and make some recommendations to [...]
Thousands march at ACTU rallies across nation
2018-10-24T16:16:02+00:00October 23rd, 2018|
A sea of 150,000 trade unionists flooded the streets of Melbourne this morning as part of a series of nationwide rallies to restore workers' rights [...]