Supporting older patients to remain active and engaged during their hospital stay is a challenge UQ Masters of Occupational Therapy Studies students are assisting with at The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital.
With Victoria re-issuing stay at home orders and NSW and ACT possibly not far behind, it's worth looking at how lockdown worked the first time. What went well? What have we learned?
Sterile water injections have been found to provide effective pain relief for women with labour back pain. In this research led by The University of Queensland, women who received the water injections reported their pain reduced by at least half, for 90 minutes or longer.
UQ is now ranked fourth in the world for nursing, up from ninth last year in the prestigious ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (ARWU) 2020.
Professor Saso Ivanovski from UQ's School of Dentistry spoke with ABC News about how natural enzyme cleaning and such practices might need rethinking due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Australia is considered as having one of the best responses to COVID-19 in the world but spare a thought for low and middle-income countries (LMIC) that are grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout.