Hospitals/Clinics
NEW YORK/ GENEVA: The four leading international health and humanitarian organizations announced today the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile to ensure outbreak response. The effort to establish the stockpile was led by the ...
New Chief Nurse Professor Deborah Sturdy OBE will take up the new role to represent social care nurses and provide clinical leadership to the workforce. Sturdy has been appointed Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care ...
What are the ingredients in a vaccine? Vaccines contain tiny fragments of the disease-causing organism or the blueprints for making the tiny fragments. They also contain other ingredients to keep the vaccine safe and effective. ...
A class action has been launched against the owners of St Basil’s aged care home following a mass coronavirus outbreak linked to quite 30 deaths. The lawsuit is being handled by the identical legal firm ...
The chief executive of Acsa, Patricia Sparrow, said Queensland and South Australia had policies supporting the transfer of Covid-19-positive aged care residents to hospitals, but every other state was making decisions on a case-by-case basis. ...
The University of Queensland and Australian biotech giant CSL last month began injecting 120 Brisbane volunteers with a shot vaccine. A coronavirus vaccine being developed by Australian researchers has produced zero side effects in human ...
Recently, an analysis of over 30,000 online reviews of medical practitioners confirmed poor customer service is the patients’ biggest frustration. In fact, according to this research, 96 percent of patient grievances are due to disappointing ...
Ali Eshragh, Data Scientist, together with his co-authors Saed Alizamir Peter Howley Elizabeth Stojanovski, recently published research on the dynamics of COVID-19 on Australia’s Population. The novel Corona Virus COVID-19 arrived on Australian shores around ...
Nursing is as much of a personal mission as it is a career path. More so than any other reason, many become interested in this line of work because they feel called to it and ...
As a thank you to the incredible healthcare workers who have been tirelessly caring for Australians through this challenging time, Menulog is donating $120,000 worth of vouchers to the hospital staff for doctors, nurses and cleaners. ...
University of Melbourne researchers working together with Western Health have designed a private ventilation hood for hospital beds to assist contain the droplet spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in medical care units (ICUs). The transparent, movable ...
Dr Nick Coatsworth, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, shares tips for health professionals and addresses concerns about asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19. With new stories emerging about the rapid spread of COVID-19, public health experts are now ...