The AMA today released its new Position Statement on End of Life Care and Advance Care Planning 2014. [ + ]

Queensland Health nurse Helen Murray has combined her patient care skills with the world of e-Health and been honoured with a top ICT award. [ + ]

Following the release of a landmark biomedical health survey, the National Heart Foundation of Australia says cardiovascular disease will remain a major contributor the the gap in life expectancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people. [ + ]

A new study shows that workers in health and community services have only a moderate safety consciousness despite having the highest number of workplace injury claims of all industries. [ + ]

Queensland has beaten the tyranny of distance in health care today with the opening of The University of Queensland’s Centre of Research Excellence in Telehealth. [ + ]

Information on prostate cancer needs to be better communicated to men who have English as a second language, according to new research launched by the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA). [ + ]

During the past decade there has been a declining rate of heart attacks for Western Australians with diabetes despite a rapid rise in the prevalence of diabetes. [ + ]

People living in remote areas are more likely to have access to nurses and midwives than medical practitioners, according to information released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). [ + ]

Work has begun on redeveloping  the Carnarvon Health Campus and the Exmouth Health Service in Western Australia. [ + ]

[caption id="attachment_9192" align="alignleft" width="183"] Rob Hankins[/caption] [ + ]

With next week being National Stroke Week (8 - 14 September), timely research has been released which has led to a deeper understanding of how the brain responds to stroke and which mechanisms may be harmful or beneficial following a stroke. [ + ]

University of Adelaide neuroscience researchers are investigating markers for potential earlier diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson’s disease. [ + ]

The rapid increase in rates of type 2 diabetes* in low- and middle-income countries where tuberculosis (TB) is endemic could hamper global efforts to control and eliminate TB, according to a new three-part Series about TB and diabetes, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. [ + ]

The time for talk is over. The time for action is now. That is the key message from the Australian Senate’s Community Affairs Committee’s report into speech pathology services in Australia. [ + ]

The Consumers' Health Forum says the AMA's concerns about the Pharmacy Guild proposal for the Federal Government to fund pharmacies to provide cholesterol and blood pressure checks, vaccinations, and non-prescription treatments for minor ailment, raises some important questions about the role of pharmacists in primary care in Australia and negotiations around the 6th community pharmacy agreement. [ + ]