My Health Career is pleased to publish an article by dietitian Melanie McGrice where she discusses omega-3 fatty acids, their role in post-natal depression and…
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Less than 5% of Australian Accredited Exercise Physiologists (AEPs) are employed in Australian hospitals, and industry body Exercise & Sport Science Australia (ESSA) has called…
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This is the fourth and final post in my series from the Digital Health Summit at CES 2015, following on from posts on wearables, disrupting…
“This is the third post in a series from the Digital Health Summit that formed part of CES 2015, with the first talking about the…
Read More Is pharmacy facing its Kodak moment? By Cathie Reid – Digital Health Summit post 3>
The Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) has chosen a time when the federal government is looking to trim its health spending as the time to put…
The Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA) has recently approved physiotherapists to be able to complete a post graduate qualification to become credentialled diabetes educators. The…
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Shelley Straw qualified as an Eye & Ear Nurse in 1982, and worked in the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital for close to 25…
In November last year, I put out a call for a handful of health professionals to become “serial bloggers” in 2015. I was looking for…
Medical writing is the term used for a field that can include journalists who specialize in writing in healthcare and medicine as well as doctors,…
The plaster was flying thick and fast when 50 Indigenous high school students came to Canberra for a hands-on health session at ANU on December…
Whipping out your mobile phone, taking a quick photo of that suspicious rash and texting it to a colleague might not be the way to…
Read More Are you illegally taking clinical images with your mobile device?>
Dietitians have taken to Twitter to voice their concerns over the segment “Low Carb Diet Fat or Fiction” aired on the ABC’s Catalyst on Thursday…
Allied Health is an umbrella term that encompasses a wide range of health practitioners. Although there is no single definition of which professions are included…
We asked pharmacist and PhD candidate Kenny Lee what it was like to speak at the recent TEDxPerth event….. “Each year at TEDxPerth, local and…
It’s not that uncommon that I find myself at a high school careers event chatting with a high school student who will say “oh, I…
If you are interested in working at the World Health Organization (WHO), you might be interested in inside information on getting a job there. Dr…
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My Health Career is pleased to present a guest article from Georgia Woodhouse, a third year pharmacy student at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga.…
So what’s Twitter got to do with a researcher’s work receiving citations? According to a paper from the University Health Network in Canada, “highly tweeted…
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In a report published by The Australian, University of Sydney vice-chancellor Dr Michael Spence has said that the government should consider withdrawing health disciplines from…
Far out – with an article title like “the day a patient thanked me for yelling at them” it almost seems that there is a…
