Painless insulin delivery through nanopatch

No more finger pricking? This team of scientists have been developing a patch that sits on the skin and is capable of detecting the sugar levels in your sweat. A wearable, sweat-sensing patch that can monitor and regulate blood glucose levels is described in a paper published online this week in Nature Nanotechnology. The graphene-based patch is shown to deliver metformin, a drug used to treat diabetes, through the skin to reduce high blood glucose levels in diabetic mice.

Mindfulness and nursing

What is mindfulness? It’s the practice of bringing your awareness into the present moment.  It’s about noticing the ‘right now’ by engaging your five senses and watching your thoughts as they come and go without holding onto or pushing away what your are experiencing.

Paracetamol painfully poor for arthritis

In a large-scale analysis of pain-relief medication for osteoarthritis, researchers found that paracetamol does not meet the minimum standard of clinical effectiveness [1] in reducing pain or improving physical function in patients with knee and hip osteoarthritis. Although paracetamol was slightly better than placebo, researchers conclude that, taken on its own, paracetamol has no role in the treatment of patients with osteoarthritis, irrespective of dose.

Healthy eating on shifts? Be a planning boss

Working shifts means that eating regular meals goes on the back-burner. And eating healthy food, well that's just for those normal people working regular jobs right? We all know how it goes, a coworker calls in sick, you get six new admissions and there is no time to sit down, let alone digest anything.

Nutrition in Mental Health - Sounding the alarm

As clean as it looks - Using Flourescent marker audits to evaluate cleaning efficacy

Alarm Fatigue

Celebrating 40 years of ASID 1976 - 2016

Save lives

The PASA 2nd Annual Aged Care Procurement Conference

SPC ProVital Fruit Cup^ achieves the highest possible score in packaging accessibility

Enhancing outcomes for Patients and their Caregivers®

Sunshine Coast University Hospital Program

Who looks after the nurses?

5 paramedics dead - questions remain

A report into five suspected suicides of St John Ambulance volunteers and paramedics found that it was 'a complex mix of issues', not solely their exposure to critical incidents that contributed to their deaths.