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Queensland the first state to roll out pill testing

AAP - 25-02-2023

Queensland will become the first Australian state to roll out pill-testing sites in an attempt to curb the harmful effects of illicit drugs. The move will shift

 
Building resilient kids could start with a bubble

AAP - 04-02-2023

Blowing bubbles could be the first step to communicating with children about trauma, helping them build back stronger after disasters. The exercise is among tips

 
Work starts on nation-first mRNA facility

AAP - 08-12-2022

Work has begun at the site of Moderna's first Australian mRNA vaccine facility in Melbourne's southeast. The site at Monash University's Clayton campus

 
Pill testing program urged for SA

AAP - 21-07-2022

South Australia has been urged to follow the ACT and establish a pill and drug testing clinic. Australia's first testing site has opened in Canberra in a

 
From 3D-printed noses to pumping hearts

AAP - 13-04-2022

Surgeons and students have been slicing into spare dead bodies for centuries to hone their skills, but new technology could replace increasingly scarce cadavers.

 
New bone stabilising implant hastens mobility

HealthTimes - 12-04-2022

A new implant designed by QUT biomedical engineers to stabilise a long bone fracture above the knee and enable earlier mobility has been used for the first time in an implant

 
World-first research scientific breakthrough set to make paralysed people walk again

HealthTimes - 05-04-2022

Professor Tal Dvir is the extraordinary man behind a world-first breakthrough which uses patient tissue samples and technology to transform injured spinal cords.

 
Practice Articles
Bringing the techniques of the NFL to Australia

Nicole Madigan - 10-04-2023

Back in 2017, a Texans NFL player walked into Evoker Physiotherapy to keep on top of his post operation treatment, following a pectoral tear. It was a positive

An app for that: Testing a new tool to screen preterm babies

Karen Keast - 26-04-2016

Each year, 15 million babies across the globe are born preterm while almost 40 per cent of children born less than 32 weeks’ gestation have a motor impairment.

Guidance Articles
Social media and patient privacy - a nurse leader's investigation

Karen Keast - 12-02-2015

Nurses and midwives are overwhelming embracing social media to share information but when does posting and tweeting breach patient privacy? One of Australia’s emerging

Research
Timing affects medication

AAP - 28-10-2014

Timing is an important but often ignored factor in drug effectiveness, scientists say. [subscribe] A body-clock "atlas" mapping

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