Edith Cowan University
ECU joins forces with WAHTN to translate research into action
Researchers at ECU are partnering with the Western Australian Health Translation Network to bring new science into clinical practice.
healthcare
Edith Cowan University
Time for the gloves to come off
The indiscriminate use of non-sterile gloves in hospitals and clinics could be doing more harm than good, new research has found.
Macquarie University
Study highlights barriers to care for older adults with hearing loss
Researchers have carried out in-depth interviews with a group of Australians aged 40 and over who use hearing aids, cochlear implants or both to learn more about their experiences with clinicians such as audiologists and GPs.
La Trobe University
Advancing AI innovation with NVIDIA supercomputer
La Trobe University’s deployment of NVIDIA DGX H200 systems are the first to be commissioned at a university in Australia, giving scientists the ability to push the boundaries of AI-driven medical and biotech research.
Edith Cowan University
Female nurses face significant gender pay gap
Despite making up nearly 90% of the workforce in the healthcare industry, female nurses were still faced with a pay gap of between 4% to 13% when compared with their male counterparts.
Charles Sturt University
Men’s cancer risk to rise 84 per cent by 2050 according to new study
New research co-authored by Charles Sturt University Rural Health Research Institute academics has indicated a risk of men’s cancer rates climbing by 84 per cent globally by 2050.
Charles Sturt University
Research connects student learning with community experiences
Research projects continue to emerge from the hundreds of health checks Charles Sturt paramedicine students have conducted at the Henty Machinery Field Days.
Edith Cowan University
Rural ambulance volunteers struggle with birth emergencies
Although unplanned out-of-hospital births are rare, volunteer ambulance officers must be prepared to provide critical care in these high-risk situations. However, new ECU research has revealed that many VAOs frequently feel unprepared and under-resourced when faced with such emergencies.
Macquarie University
Walking to combat back pain: world-first study shows dramatic improvement
Adults with a history of low back pain lasted nearly twice as long without a recurrence if they walked regularly, a world-first study has found.
Edith Cowan University
A new tool for boosting empathy in healthcare
When healthcare workers have higher levels of empathy and compassion it improves the quality of patient care and decreases the likelihood of practitioner burnout.
Monash University
International Nurses Day - Aspire to Inspire
International Nurses Day is celebrated annually around the world and enables us to celebrate the people who become nurses and their role in providing first-class healthcare to people at their most vulnerable times.
Edith Cowan University
ECU uses AI to help address aggression in the ED
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been integrated into an immersive virtual-reality-enhanced computer simulation program developed by researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) to train frontline healthcare workers in de-escalating aggression in patients.