Workers from Victoria's Thomas Embling psychiatric hospital are calling for more staff to deal with an increase in the number of assaults at the facility. [ + ]

Southampton University scientists have found evidence that awareness continues for at least several minutes after clinical death which was previously thought impossible. [ + ]

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Hospitals and health workers are being targeted in war, with attacks in Yemen, South Sudan and Afghanistan. In Syria alone Médecins Sans Frontières supported health structures have been attacked over 60 times since January 2015. We refuse to accept that this is the new normal. Even war has rules. [ + ]

Only a few years ago flying drones were associated with dropping bombs. Now thanks to a company called Vayu, a drone designed to help bring medical care to remote places was successfully used to deliver clinical blood and stool samples from rural villages in Madagascar to a central laboratory for testing. There were numerous flights conducted to prove the viability of using the technology on a regular basis over hilly terrain. [ + ]

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Hand injuries are the most common in the workplace; so why isn't more done to prevent them? [ + ]

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Why does flu make us feel like we are failing at life? Viral infections have long been known to make the best of us feel moody, depressed and generally hopeless. A study in mice, published in Immunity, now reveals how the antiviral immune response alters brain activity. Upon infection, brain cells lining blood vessels produce a protein called CXCL10. This impairs neuronal firing in the hippocampus -- a brain region important in learning, memory, and mood. [ + ]

Cars have evolved a lot faster than we have. Our bodies are not equipped to manage the forces in most crash scenarios. This has prompted a new Victorian initiative to reduce road deaths and injuries. [ + ]

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Nurses can now address their increased risk of osteoporotic fracture from the comfort of their own home, through a new online program. [ + ]

The drug denosumab may have potential to prevent breast cancer from developing according to researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall. [ + ]

“Great nurses are born, not made. They have an innate gift of unconditional compassion and a relentless determination to alleviate suffering.” [ + ]

For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. [ + ]