The Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Conference 2023 — Creating a digitally savvy workforce — will be on Day 1 of #MEDINFO23, Saturday, 8 July 2023, in Sydney. [ + ]

Google joins Cochlear, Macquarie University Hearing, National Acoustic Laboratories, NextSense and The Shepherd Centre to explore new hearing solutions. [ + ]

Four in five alcohol-related deaths and three in five hospitalisations in 2019–20 were among males, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). [ + ]

A new online program, Baby-EATS, aims to support early childhood educators and parents of infants and toddlers to improve child nutrition early in life. [ + ]

Salimi joins Telstra Health from eHealth NSW where he held the position of Executive Director, Service Delivery (CTO). [ + ]

Brandon BioCatalyst, partnering with ANDHealth, will deliver the program to commercialise promising Australian biomedical and digital health discoveries. [ + ]

Data from a skin cancer study by QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute has been involved in a cybersecurity breach. [ + ]

Painaustralia has expressed disappointment at the TGA's interim decision to reduce the available pack sizes of paracetamol in Australia. [ + ]

Cancer patients suffered added stress during the pandemic due to rules preventing a support person from attending appointments with them, a new study has found. [ + ]

A study of women with rheumatoid arthritis has found that those taking oral contraceptives or HRT had a greater chance of achieving remission. [ + ]

A new paper proposes a comprehensive ethical framework for the responsible use, design and governance of generative AI applications in health care and medicine. [ + ]

Local researchers have developed a new system that releases insulin precisely and smartly only when the body actually needs it. [ + ]

Bio-engineered heart tissues could one day help patients recover from the damage caused by a heart attack, according to UTS researchers. [ + ]

Injecting bacteria into a tumour causes inflammation that triggers the immune system to attack rather than protect a tumour, according to new research. [ + ]

One in five people refused to accept statin therapy despite being at high risk of developing heart disease, according to a new study. [ + ]