Hospital waste management and hygiene

Accessible Nutrition for Australia’s Ageing Population

Simply better solutions - Reliable, consistent and versatile

It’s Never “After Hours” At Everlight. When Your Team Needs Support, We’re Ready When You Are

Registered nurses

A shift in thinking - A healthy hospital that saves money

MRI Shielding Design is an Important Feature of the Modern MRI Suite

Truly sustainable healthcare is more than just green

Green is a given on Brookfield Multiplex projects. But we look beyond green credentials to ensure our projects are truly sustainable and drive long-term financial and social gains alongside environmental outcomes.

Are you obliged to take the night shift?

Night duty: it’s the easiest shift, right? No one gets up fifty times to go to the bathroom. No one rings the bell. No doctors come through, and patients never get sick and need care. Night shift is a controversial part of nursing. If you’ve never worked it, you have no idea what it’s like. If you have – and most have – you know it is not as easy as everyone makes it sound. In fact, it is probably the most difficult shift because you are constantly fighting the need for sleep and still making clinical decisions.

How Australians Die: cause #1 - CVD and stroke

This is the first in the How Australians Die series that focuses on the country’s top five causes of death and how we can drive down rates of these illnesses. 

It’s been a very tough thing to care about

“I’ve been on a mission for seventeen years. It’s my holy grail. I’m trying to cure a brain tumor called DIPG that kills 100 percent of the children who have it. It only affects 200 kids a year so it’s never gotten much attention. But if you saw a child die from DIPG, you’d understand why I care so much. It’s awful. It’s just awful.

Lifesaving app is in the (doctor's) bag

A new smartphone app—designed to support Australian health professionals during emergencies—has been officially launched by Australian Prescriber and NPS MedicineWise.

Rivals Join Forces To Woo Big Pharma

Traditional rivals Monash and Melbourne Universities are collaborating to create a new company that will market and sell medicines developed by the institutions to pharmaceutical companies, reinvesting any profit into research.

A Stethoscope Sensor For Knees Detects Injury

Those crackling sounds of knees in the morning may sound scary, but there’s constant noise coming out of moving joints that we just don’t hear. Normal sounds may indicate healthy knees while unusual ones may point to something not quite right. Researchers at Georgia Tech are now investigating a sort of stethoscope for the knees, consisting of microphones and a film-based vibration sensor, stuck to the leg that listen for and interpret the sounds coming from within.

Cost-Effective Medicines For All People In All Places

Experts are calling for a national register of cost-effective medicines for public hospitals as medical advances push up the cost of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).