The PSA has launched guidelines for pharmacists supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with medicines management. [ + ]

Health practitioners are often ideally placed to offer help to victims of gender-based violence, but they need more support and training to do so effectively. [ + ]

Despite a commitment from the pharmaceutical industry to improve data transparency, more than half of the clinical trials that led to the USFDA approving anticancer medicines over the past 10 years are not available for independent scrutiny. [ + ]

Professor Helen Reddel and colleagues from the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research have written about finding the lowest effective dose to control asthma. [ + ]

A browser-based smartphone app delivers therapy for people recovering from surgery and those with lung conditions involving overproduction of mucus. [ + ]

Melbourne researchers have found that current primary stroke prevention measures are insufficient and fragmented, and a more holistic approach is "urgently" needed. [ + ]

The phrase "growing pains" is used by the general public and health professionals in reference to muscle or joint pain in young people. [ + ]

A study of food served in a youth detention centre in South Australia gives insights into the role diet and menu choices play in improving or reducing the incarceration experience. [ + ]

After a temporary move online in 2020 due to COVID-related restrictions, Wounds Australia's biannual wounds conference is returning to Sydney this September. [ + ]

An international study of hospital workers has found that sleep quality and circadian rhythms in night shift workers was poorer than in those who worked day shifts. [ + ]

The Victorian Health Building Authority has unveiled the first designs for the $48.7 million redevelopment of the Swan Hill District Health emergency department. [ + ]

A new study has found evidence of hospital water as a source of potential infection and even antimicrobial and multidrug-resistant organisms. [ + ]

New research is said to have found a direct link between people's exposure to bushfire smoke and visits to Perth's emergency departments. [ + ]

The Plenary Health consortium has announced a three-year partnership with Footscray Community Arts for the new Footscray Hospital project. [ + ]

An analysis of four decades of data has found that surgery and stents have limited impact in combating the risk of stroke. [ + ]