Queensland Nurse Wins Award for e-Health and Patient Care Skills
11 September, 2014 by Petrina SmithQueensland Health nurse Helen Murray has combined her patient care skills with the world of e-Health and been honoured with a top ICT award.
New Research Shows Health Workers Need to Improve Safety Behaviours
11 September, 2014 by Petrina SmithA 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's Centre of Research Excellence in Telehealth Opens
10 September, 2014 by Petrina SmithQueensland 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.
New Report on National Supply of Employed Medical Practitioners and Nurses
09 September, 2014 by Petrina SmithPeople 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).
Western Australian Health Service Redevelopment Programs Begin
09 September, 2014 by Petrina SmithWork has begun on redeveloping the Carnarvon Health Campus and the Exmouth Health Service in Western Australia.
New Research Unravels Complex Stroke Mechanisms
04 September, 2014 by Petrina SmithWith 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.
Adelaide University Research Targets Early Symptoms of Parkinson’s disease
04 September, 2014 by Petrina SmithUniversity of Adelaide neuroscience researchers are investigating markers for potential earlier diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson’s disease.
Speech Pathology Australia says Time for Talk is Over
03 September, 2014 by Petrina SmithThe 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.
New Campaign Says See the GP, Not the ED
01 September, 2014 by Petrina SmithA new marketing campaign by the Queensland Government has been designed to get people to visit their GP, not hospital Emergency Departments.
More Grants Supporting Medical Research
01 September, 2014 by Petrina SmithResearchers will benefit from 95 grants totalling almost $70 million by the National Health and Medical Research Council.
Role of Nurses in Health Assessments is Fully Acknowledged
28 August, 2014 by Petrina SmithDepartmental advice has been released indicating that time spent by nurses in the delivery of health assessments in general practice can be counted when billing a time-based item.
World-first Research Identifies New Ways to Prevent Transplant Complications
28 August, 2014 by Petrina SmithScientists at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute have identified a way to prevent transplant complications for bone marrow transplant patients.
Placental Stem Cells Keep On Giving
27 August, 2014 by Petrina SmithIt's been a while since the idea of eating human placenta for health benefits first appeared in our news feeds, and now researchers at The University of Queensland have discovered how to make even more of the organ.
Painless Vaccines Through Nanopatch Technology
27 August, 2014 by Petrina SmithThe University of Queensland's Professor Mark Kendall is in the spotlight this week for inventing vaccine-replacing technology: the Nanopatch.
Review Focuses on Future of Regenerative Medicine
27 August, 2014 by Petrina SmithIf regenerative medicine is to become a reality, research efforts must now focus on the environment that stem cells need to grow and transform, a review has found.
